The most powerful consumer graphics card ever made just went on sale — and there are only 1,000 of them.
ASUS just dropped the most excessive consumer GPU ever made — and it already outperforms
NVIDIA’s own workstation flagship. The ROG Matrix RTX 5090D v2 30th Anniversary Edition hit preorders in China at 29,999 yuan (roughly $4,100). Global production: exactly 1,000 units. That’s it.
The card’s party trick is dual power input. Pair it with an ASUS BTF motherboard and 12V-2×6 connector, and the Matrix can pull 800W continuously. ASUS’s China GM Tony Yu stress-tested one on camera — it hit 807W and kept running.
At that power draw, the card scored 28,638 points in 3DMark Time Spy Extreme. That beats NVIDIA’s RTX Pro 6000, a workstation GPU with a more complete GB202 die (24,576 cores vs. 21,760). A consumer card with fewer cores is outrunning NVIDIA’s professional silicon — let that sink in.
For a closer look at real-world gaming performance, check out our RTX 5090 takes on Crysis at 4K and 8K breakdown.
Engineering overkill
Cooling 800W requires serious hardware:
- 3-ounce copper PCB (triple the industry standard)
- Liquid metal on the GPU die
- Vapor chamber + heat pipes
- Four fans with 20% more airflow than ROG Strix
- Automatic memory defrost for liquid nitrogen runs
The defrost system kicks in at 0°C to prevent condensation death during extreme overclocking. ASUS built this card to chase world records — they said so
explicitly.
Who actually buys this most expensive GPU?
Not gamers. A standard RTX 5090 delivers 90% of the gaming performance at under half the price.
The Matrix exists for benchmark competitors, LN2 overclockers, and collectors who want one of a thousand ever made. It’s a statement piece that happens to
function as a GPU.
At $4,100, you’re not paying for frames. You’re paying to answer: what happens when you remove every limit? Apparently, 800W happens.
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