ASUS ROG RTX 5090 Matrix Platinum Review
Up Close
Up Close
From the outside you could be forgiven for thinking the Matrix isn’t anything insane. The box isn’t made of metal (clearly) or plays a string quartet. If you weren’t aware that circular ends are unusual you might not even spot this has anything unique.
Luckily a quick opening brings the attention to detail we’ve come to expect from ASUS. The card design, with its RGB display surround, is echoed perfectly by the packaging. We wouldn’t expect anything less. Not from something at the top of the ASUS ROG range.
Taking off the cover and you catch your first glimpse of the Matrix itself. If the RTX 4090 card design was limited by its water-cooling nature, the designers have gone hog wild with this.
As you might expect from ROG, you get a good selection of accessories. A ROG branded GPU support. A coaster in keeping with the CD drivers we used to get. We hope this is the kind of effort ASUS put into all their anniversary products.
Here is the quad-fan cooler of the Matrix Platinum in all its glory. What’s that? You can only see three? The right hand circle hides a push-pull arrangement. Oh yes.
It’s definitely a chunky monkey. With one of the beefiest heatsink stacks around, and four fans, it’s bound to be. We’ll look in more detail at the connectors in a second.
Between the push-pull fans is an AURA Sync lighting setup letting you match the Matrix to your own colour scheme. Although it’s a bit red to go with anything outre.
The BTF connector comes with an extension. So you can have it like this, hidden away utilising the standard power in, or…
Like this on a BTF design. We love a choice, particularly when we’ve emptied our wallet this much. Futureproofing is underrated.
Lift off the red cover and you have the standard power input if you’ve not yet moved to the sleek BTF designs available.
Around the back we have three DisplayPort connectors and twin HDMIs. The extra HDMI being an ASUS hallmark.
