World's grainiest video purportedly shows an RTX 5090 under testing, but Zotac confirms it was simply an RTX 4070 Ti Super on a test bench

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A still from a video purportedly showing an RTX 5090 on a test bench in a Zotac factory in Indonesia

Update:Zotac hassince released a statementconfirming that the card shown in the video is an RTX 4070 Ti Super, not an RTX 5090. The statement is as follows:

The video that has gone viral online pertains to an internal training recording of a trial production run at our facility in Indonesia, intended to test the performance of newly installed production equipments.

We reserve our right to claim against any unfounded speculation."

Original story:While reported leaked specs for Nvidia’s upcoming next-generation halo GPU, the RTX 5090, have been causing much internet discussion of late, we’ve yet to see any pictures or footage of the card in action. Now a video has surfaced on Bilibili, purportedly showingtwo of the new GPUs installed on a rack of test benches.

The video is reportedly from a factory in Batam, Indonesia, making Zotac graphics cards. The facility is said to have been built to keep supply lines with China intact outside ofUS export restrictions.Two plus-sized GPUs are seen installed on test benches in front of a small crowd of employees, who clap and cheer when the system first boots (viaTom’s Hardware).

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That’s to be expected for the RTX 5090, as while we’re expecting it to need a significant amount of cooling, it’s difficult to see how it could be much larger than current RTX 4090 sizes without severely limiting the cases in which it could be installed.

Otherwise, that looks like a pretty standard three fan cooler design to me. We in the PC Gamer hardware team had a scout around for something similar, and the closest cooler design we could find is theZotac Gaming RTX 4070 Ti Super Solid OC.

That’s an interesting graphics card in its own right, as it’s based on a cut-down AD102 GPU, like the RTX 4090D—a GPU that was designed toavoid US government enforced export restrictionson high-performance hardware to China. Given that this factory is said to be doing much the same thing, it’s possible that what we’re looking at here is actually an RTX 4090D or similar, assembled and running on test hardware from this factory for the first time.

What’s also interesting is the power connector, which looks to be a single 16-pin connection. Rumours have suggested that the RTX 5090 mightmake use of two connectorsto satisfy its reported 600 W peak power requirements. While one 16-pin 12VHPWR connectorcan deliver a maximum of 600 W, it would make sense that a card capable of hitting that top limit would split its power deliveryover two connectorsto avoid potential issues.

Still, that’s not a given, so we may actually be getting our first glimpse of an RTX 5090 “in the wild”, or at the very least, in a graphics card factory in Indonesia. Not that a glimpse of a cooler tells us very much, other than the fact that the card is about as large as an RTX 4090, appears to be using a single power connection, and in this case makes use of three fans in this configuration.

The crowd reaction is somewhat telling, though. A smattering of employees, who may well be celebrating the first boot of an RTX 5090 on their test rig—or potentially, just the first boot of the test rigs in general. Really what we might be seeing here are the first fruits of a rushed facility taking its first steps in GPU production as a whole, despite what the voiceover claims.

Ifs, buts, maybes. As the current rumours suggest that Nvidia may be aiming for a simultaneousRTX 5090, RTX 5080andRTX 5070 launch at CES 2025, it does seem likely that someone might spill the beans on what the cards look like before then—but this grainy footage has some pretty heavy question marks hovering above it for now.

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