*Official Benchmark Thread* - Post it here or it didn't happen :D

[Talon]

50 minutes ago, Papusan said:

 

Here is where the 5090 chips go. Almost all of them for workstation cards for the China market. I can't understand why this is better than feed China with vanilla 5090's. The US government banned 5090 gaming cads for the China market, but this is so much better. Oh'well, none can really stop Jensen from doing business with his preferred friends. This is disgusting. 

 

NVIDIA's RTX PRO 5500 is China's most wanted GPU, and almost nobody is getting one soon

 

So why is China buying a workstation card instead of a data center accelerator? The RTX PRO 5500 is a Blackwell-based GPU with 84GB of GDDR7 memory that complies with US export rules, which bar NVIDIA's B300 from China and put its H200 under case-by-case licensing, making it one of the most powerful NVIDIA chips Chinese companies can still legally buy.

 

This is just really sad. The 5090 couldn’t be exported but a 84gb card can? Makes no sense. This card is easily better for AI given the vram and same core count. The slightly cutdown bus likely won’t hinder it much at all. 

[Talon]

Have any of you had weird artifact/purple like boxes flicker in your displays before? I can’t figure out what is causing this issue on my new GPU. Tried DDU. Tried swapping cables. It always seems to come back. Sometimes a restart takes care of it for awhile but it reappears randomly. Even happens in games which shocked me as I figured maybe it was an idle memory issue. Sorta stumped on it. 
 

I’ll upload a video later if I can 

[Mr. Fox]

54 minutes ago, Talon said:

Have any of you had weird artifact/purple like boxes flicker in your displays before? I can’t figure out what is causing this issue on my new GPU. Tried DDU. Tried swapping cables. It always seems to come back. Sometimes a restart takes care of it for awhile but it reappears randomly. Even happens in games which shocked me as I figured maybe it was an idle memory issue. Sorta stumped on it. 
 

I’ll upload a video later if I can 

I have seen weird glitches like that with some of the 621.XX drivers and I have seen it when undervolting GPUs. I am assuming it is with the GPU running stock with no tweaks like undervolting or overclocking. If it is bone stock, have you tried an earlier driver branch, like 610.XX or 596.XX to see if the behavior is the same? If it is the same across several driver braches, test with a different monitor and different HDMI/DP cable. (I have an ASUS 4K 120 HZ IPS display that has all sorts of weird issues with various GPUs to the point that I only use it as an office TV now.) If it still persists after all of those things then something has to be wrong with the GPU.

[Talon]

3 hours ago, Mr. Fox said:

I have seen weird glitches like that with some of the 621.XX drivers and I have seen it when undervolting GPUs. I am assuming it is with the GPU running stock with no tweaks like undervolting or overclocking. If it is bone stock, have you tried an earlier driver branch, like 610.XX or 596.XX to see if the behavior is the same? If it is the same across several driver braches, test with a different monitor and different HDMI/DP cable. (I have an ASUS 4K 120 HZ IPS display that has all sorts of weird issues with various GPUs to the point that I only use it as an office TV now.) If it still persists after all of those things then something has to be wrong with the GPU.

 

Went into Microcenter to add the warranty. Brought the card with me and talked with the tech and manager about the artifacts. Had the video on my phone showing it happening on the desktop and in games. They said not normal and wanted to swap the card. They only had the demo unit they had on display behind glass left but offered that card. They took the card, put it into it's retail box and swapped the GPU and added the 2 year warranty. 

 

Just got the card in and it's significantly better and no artifacts yet. 57.6% ASIC, not a lottery winner but not a dud at all. My previous card would crash at 3300Mhz in GPUZ. This card does 3400Mhz and uses 1085Mv max. I'm just happy to have a card that isn't artifacting out of box. 

 

Got my adapter delivered and unfortunately, my Apex board blocks the cable. The heatsink gets in the way. Ugh. So now I'll have to use a small offset or go vertical or something. Not my favorite but it seems no choice. 

[tps3443]

On 11/7/2026 at 11:02 PM, Mr. Fox said:

Nice to see you, brother. Hope all is well with the family.

 

With mVolt+ there is no longer any need to cross-flash BIOS, shunt-mod or use EVC2 for voltage control. You can change all of those things with software now... just a portable exe file does it all.

 

 

And, now you can also run the latest DLSS and frame gen on GPUs NVIDIA said "do not support" DLSS and MFG. Yup, on something like a 3060 that would barely manage 30 FPS at 4K now you can do 100+ FPS, thanks to talented modders finding ways to beat and defeat the Green Goblin's lies and shenanigans. DLSS Enabler or DLSS5 Manager even let's you run DLSS on some AMD and Intel GPUs now.

 

 

I’m doing great! I hope you and your family are all good as well! Im still out of work, sleeping until 11am some days and hustling junk cars, hard to believe it’s been about 6 months now. Life is good!
 

I started playing with Mvolt+ tonight, although I already had it, I haven’t really dug in to it. I just got the new one though, amazing app. My 5090 Astral has a pretty low Xbar like 2,490Mhz, so I focused my tuning there to try and gain some performance. I kept the card all stock for now 600w pwr, 0% voltage slider, auto fans, default memory +0 and default core clocks +0. I started adding voltage to my Xbar and saw performance degradation and Xbar even went down even lower lol. So then I started taking away Xbar voltage, I reached -20mv and the score improved slowly in Steel Nomad DX12, then I began adding Xbar clock frequency and reached +164. So I settled on a 15,500 Steel Nomad score on my 5090 Astral which is amazing. All stock power limit of 100%, and 0% voltage slider, no memory or core overclocking, or undervolting at all. So just with Xbar clocks going up. 
 

Then I undervolted the card to 900mv, OCed the memory +3,000, and it hit its 16,001 and even idling at 10 watts on the desktop. 
 

Not even really pushing the card at all. Great daily setup for air card. 
 

 

 

[Talon]

16 hours ago, Talon said:

Got my adapter delivered and unfortunately, my Apex board blocks the cable. The heatsink gets in the way. Ugh. So now I'll have to use a small offset or go vertical or something. Not my favorite but it seems no choice. 

 

Well this was wrong. I foolishly thought the riser card was needed to connect to the BTF port but completely not needed. 🤣 It's for using to connect to a BTF board. The BTF to 12v2x6 cable works flawlessly. Near perfect 12v under 800w load with great per pin distribution. 

[electrosoft]

18 hours ago, Talon said:

 

Went into Microcenter to add the warranty. Brought the card with me and talked with the tech and manager about the artifacts. Had the video on my phone showing it happening on the desktop and in games. They said not normal and wanted to swap the card. They only had the demo unit they had on display behind glass left but offered that card. They took the card, put it into it's retail box and swapped the GPU and added the 2 year warranty. 

 

Just got the card in and it's significantly better and no artifacts yet. 57.6% ASIC, not a lottery winner but not a dud at all. My previous card would crash at 3300Mhz in GPUZ. This card does 3400Mhz and uses 1085Mv max. I'm just happy to have a card that isn't artifacting out of box. 

 

Got my adapter delivered and unfortunately, my Apex board blocks the cable. The heatsink gets in the way. Ugh. So now I'll have to use a small offset or go vertical or something. Not my favorite but it seems no choice. 

 

2 hours ago, Talon said:

 

Well this was wrong. I foolishly thought the riser card was needed to connect to the BTF port but completely not needed. 🤣 It's for using to connect to a BTF board. The BTF to 12v2x6 cable works flawlessly. Near perfect 12v under 800w load with great per pin distribution. 

 

Shout out again to Microcenter.....

 

When I saw you picked up the 20th edition bundle I did giggle a bit and thought to myself, "My Day One source strikes again!" 🤣

 

Our local MC still has a single Asus 20th edition package in stock. I tried to talk a buddy into picking it up to upgrade his aging 2080ti + 5800X3D  rig and his exact words were, "are you daft? YOU pick it up!" 🤣

 

Glad the replacement is a much better sample and in the end it looks slick AF. It is easily the best looking 5090 on the market IMHO.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Meaker]

On 11/8/2026 at 2:19 PM, Talon said:

This is just really sad. The 5090 couldn’t be exported but a 84gb card can? Makes no sense. This card is easily better for AI given the vram and same core count. The slightly cutdown bus likely won’t hinder it much at all. 

This way Nvidia gets to keep all the profit so it's fine, just ask Jensen's girlfriend 😄