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MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Lightning Z 32 GB GPU Review: The Beast Unleashed

Hassan Mujtaba

Thermal Performance

No graphics card review is complete without evaluating its temperatures and thermal load. All of the graphics cards that we tested were running their default 'Performance' BIOS, and the results are below:

Temperatures
Load (Gaming 30-Minute Burn-in)
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 FE
75
MSI RTX 5090 Lightning Z OC (+180/+2000/+75%)
50
MSI RTX 5090 Lightning Z Extreme (1000W)
45
MSI RTX 5090 Lightning Z (800W)
44
Fan Noise
Gaming (dbA)
0
7
14
21
28
35
42
0
7
14
21
28
35
42
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 FE
40.8
MSI RTX 5090 Lightning Z OC (+180/+2000/+75%)
37.3
MSI RTX 5090 Lightning Z Extreme (1000W)
34.2
MSI RTX 5090 Lightning Z (800W)
29.4

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About the author: A Software Engineer by training and a PC enthusiast by passion, Hassan Mujtaba serves as Wccftech's Senior Editor for hardware section. With years of experience in the industry, he specializes in deep-dive technical analysis of next-generation CPU and GPU architectures, motherboards, and cooling solutions. His work involves not only breaking news on upcoming technologies but also extensive hands-on reviews and benchmarking.

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