Gigabyte is celebrating its 40th anniversary with a brand-new and unique-looking graphics card built for maximum performance. The brand is also launching a bunch of new AM5 motherboards covering the mid and high segments, offering sky-high memory speed support and the latest evolutions in design aesthetics.
Starting with the Aorus RTX 5090 Infinity, we have a beastly graphics card that means business. Gigabyte took what it has learned in GPU-making over the years and distilled it into this one-of-a-kind design, blending gentle curves with serious cooling performance. The Infinity is topped by the so-called WindForce Hyperburst cooling system, featuring optimised Hawk fans, composite metal grease for the GPU, and a direct-touch vapour chamber/heatpipe combo. Furthermore, Gigabyte is also using the dual flow-through design pioneered by Nvidia, offering less air restriction and potential cooling capacity.
While the RTX 5090 Infinity isn’t small by any means, it’s also not that big compared to the monsters we see nowadays. In fact, Gigabyte advertises it as a compact card that can fit a wide range of chassis, including ITX ones. If you plan on pairing one with a small-form-factor case, make sure its triple-slot, 330mm-long x 145mm-wide size can fit.
Those who like RGB are also getting some lighting zones to play with, located around the fans and below the Infinity branding. The lighting seems subtle enough for such a serious-looking beast, all while providing a nice addition for RGB aficionados.
On top of the main dual fans – which remind me of car cabin cooling vents for some reason – the RTX 5090 Infinity also packs a little secret behind its central mesh, meant to further improve cooling when needed. Called Overdrive Fan, whenever more performance is required, the third smaller fan behind the mesh activates to boost airflow. Hopefully, its speed and sound profiles take into consideration its size to avoid unnecessary noise when in use. From the looks of it, this design should deliver at least an equivalent cooling capacity to a Founders Edition card.
Regarding specs, you can expect the same 21,760 CUDA cores and 32GB of 28Gb/s GDDR7 memory as any other RTX 5090, though likely running at a higher frequency out of the box, and with more overclocking headroom. Dual BIOS is also present, configured for performance or silence by default.
Like the competing Asus ROG Matrix Platinum RTX 5090 and MSI RTX 5090 Lightning, you can expect this card to come at a premium, though for that, you also get a longer four-year warranty.
Graphics aside, Gigabyte has also showcased its upcoming AM5 motherboards, including the B580 Aorus Stealth, X870 Aorus Stealth, X870E Aorus Xtreme X3D AI Top, and X870E Aero X3D Wood. As their name implies, the first two move all connectors to the back to hide cables from view, giving owners an unobstructed look at the main components. The Xtreme X3D AI TOP, on the other hand, is all about performance, and is therefore engineered for users seeking uncompromised performance both on the CPU and memory sides. For instance, Gigabyte advertises support for up to DDR5-9000, offering AMD users exceptional memory bandwidths – assuming the CPU can handle it.
Those who like something more down to earth will find the new X870E Aero X3D Wood perfect for a warm and classy build, featuring a tasteful diffused RGB elimination that doesn’t look out of place and wood-grain textures that add a pinch of nature to the mix. For my part, I am a big fan of the leather-looking pull-tabs on the SSD and chipset heatsinks.
All models come with the brand’s AI-powered X3D Turbo Mode 2.0, which is said to unlock the full potential of AMD’s Ryzen 9000X3D series processors. According to Gigabyte, this feature delivers real-time adaptive performance tuning that pushes X3D CPUs beyond traditional limits.
