While Nvidia’s upcoming flagship graphics card — the RTX-5090 — has yet to receive an official price and specs, let alone an official release date, but it does already have a component that is compatible with it.
Cooler Master’s X Silent Edge Platinum 850 without fan power supply is currently listed on Amazon for $488 (around £385 / AU$750) and is obviously compatible with the RTX 4090. What is surprising, however, is that the listing says it’s compatible with the RTX 5090, which is quite a claim considering nothing has been confirmed in terms of specs.
Even more interestingly, this is not a third-party listing, but one created under the official Cooler Master store and fulfilled by Amazon, which confirms the veracity of this. The specifications of the power supply itself are impressive: it has a power rating of 850W, is 80+ Platinum certified, has a 12VHPWR power connector, and supports graphics cards up to 450W. It also uses the latest ATX 3.1 specifications and comes with a single 12V 2×6 power connector (a 16-pin power cable type).
Considering how high the specs are for the X Silent Edge Platinum 850, this sounds like a power supply that would be a perfect fit for the RTX 5090. Especially considering the 12V 2×6 power connector it includes could be the new standard for 5000-series cards in general. It could very well be the best pc power supply on the market, until competition comes along of course.
The RTX 5090 is more than worth this power supply
But what makes the Nvidia RTX 5090 such a monster of a graphics card (and potentially one of the best graphics cards once it comes out)? what we know so farit is based on Nvidia’s Blackwell Architecturewhich can use a multi-chipset module design.
The 5090 is also rumored to feature a 448-bit memory bus and 28Gbps GDDR7 memory modules, which would be 33% faster than the 21Gbps memory modules in the RTX 4090. Further speculation suggests that the next-gen flagship card will feature 28GB of VRAM, a boost clock of 2.9GHz, 24,576 CUDA cores, 128MB of L2 cache, and 1,532GB/s of memory bandwidth.
What’s even more interesting is that the RTX 5090 might not be the most powerful card of the next generation. Another rumor hints at the revival of the RTX Titan as an AI graphics card. According to that rumor, the RTX Titan AI for Blackwell will be 63% faster than the current flagship GPU, the RTX 4090.