News Unverified BIOS allegedly pushes RTX 5090D to over 2000 Watts — extreme firmware update designed for Asus ROG Astral 5090D is not for the faint-hea...

[Admin]

This leaked Asus ROG Astral RTX 5090D BIOS removes its power limits and allows it to hit 2001 watts.

Unverified BIOS allegedly pushes RTX 5090D to over 2000 Watts — extreme firmware update designed for Asus ROG Astral 5090D is not for the faint-hea... : Read more

 

[jp7189]

Unverified? If that were true, then it would indicate 5090D doesn't require a signed vbios. Otherwise, this is a signed (intentional) release by Nvidia or an authorize partner.

 

[Papusan]

Why this sloppy journalism?

From the article.... The 2,000-watt BIOS isn’t designed for the average gamer or even the seasoned professional. Instead, it’s more likely built for those who are looking to break overclocking records. So, if you have an Asus ROG Astral RTX 5090 and you’re a little bit mad, you can go ahead and try breaking records with this BIOS at home (but seriously, don’t do it unless you’re a pro overclocker).

Who said this XOC vbios for 5090D Astral works with RTX 5090's ? Also Galax XOC firmware don't work with 5090's. Only with 5090D - D for David.

 

[bill001g]

Why this sloppy journalism?

This is one of those articles that has been pretty much copied from other publications. If you search this it seems the first batch of articles came out a week ago when I first saw it and now a bunch of the more main stream publication have picked it up. There are a bunch from china that I have not bothered to translate from early july. Not of lot of the so called tech journalists really have technical backgrounds so you have to be rather suspect unless you can find the original source of the information.

They are all pretty much the same articles with little new information. It does not appear any one has actually run it on a non 5090d. It seems it can really only be run on a card that has 2 power connectors....2000 watts is way over what a single connector can run and those already melt. It is not likely anyone is going to even attempt it. Loading the BIOS is the easy part if it actually works trying to run it without major hardware modifications is not very likely.

It seems this was "leaked" when someone posted benchmark tests to one of the overclock sites. One of the comments said a normal 5090 still got better scores.

 

[teeejay94]

The GPU already lacks circuit protections from the manufacturer (Nvidia) and the plug melt at 4-600watts already so you think even with power balanced across all cables and split perfectly across two PCIe5 plugs (extremely unlikely) you're still running 1000 watts through each plug which will cause them to melt, and if they aren't "melting" let's see them over infrared, I bet they're glowing on the verge of failure which is essentially a failure already.

 

[wwenze1]

Yes, erm, board power limit setting. You know you can set your CPU to 9999W power limit too?

 

[teeejay94]

Yes, erm, board power limit setting. You know you can set your CPU to 9999W power limit too?

Board power limits are within the firmware already, this is talking about removing those settings, so erm, no. And no you can't, that doesn't apply to every board or manufacturer. Extremely vague general comment and I'm getting a hint of condescending tone from you. You're basically just going oh my God you didn't know that already.