- Accusations have been made about RTX 5090 Review Tests
- Some people think GPUs labeled as ‘press build’ could be faster than retail products
- Nvidia has assured us that this is not the case
Nvidia has denied that RTX 5090 graphics cards sent out to press for review were in any way different from the flagship boards, which will be sold by retailers, following online charges that the review tests were somehow ‘ binded ‘.
As Toms Hardware reports, there are markings on some review models of the RTX 5090 that says ‘Press Build’ (as seen in TechPowerup, for example), something noted by Andreas Schilling (editor of the German Tech place Hardwareluxx) on X.
Ian Cutress (of Techtechpotato) responded to Schilling’s comment on whether there was anything ‘special’ about these graphics cards by jokingly changing the words on the RTX 5090 chip to read ‘Press Binned’, which you can see below (if you expand the post. ).
Binning refers to not throwing graphics chips into the trash, of course, but to the process of allocating silicon to different models of GPU (in ‘Bins’ or groups). Each chipp faster than baseur speeds.
Therefore, you get different levels of over-clock with a particular GPU or actually a CPU with more ceiling height in a higher quality chip (although in the same trash)-as is called ‘to win the silicon lottery’ (you have a good overclocker).
So without getting too deep into the weeds of this, the insinuation made by some people online is that Nvidia has ensured that these better priesting chips from the top end of the trash as it was has been used in review samples To get the best results for RTX 5090.
Tom’s Directly asked Nvidia if these press build rtx 5090 Founders Edition Card was “higher priesting iterations of retail marking” and a rep from Team Green responded to say: “Some early GeForce RTX GPUs include a top brand related to intentional use [the ‘Press Build’ stamp]. Their functionality and performance are identical to retail gu’s. “
In short, the selection means nothing saving to indicate that these graphics cards are models that are put aside to send to the press.
Analysis: An unusual clarification but clearly felt nvidia it necessary
This is strange and it is unusual for Nvidia to respond to such scrap, but it is clear that Hold Green felt the need to set the record right here.
We have to take Nvidia’s claim to face value, but of course the difference, as any such binning might do, would not be so huge anyway. But even though it was, it would be a silly route for Nvidia to take, as reviews of third-party RTX 5090 boards compared to the Founders edition would certainly look weird if there was an obvious discrepancy. Yes, Nvidia’s own boards can be well designed and cooled, but you can be sure that third-party models with multiple Premium pricing will also be.
I think NVIDIA is about to be ahead here and any markings are for administrator or legal purposes only (for example, protecting against resale of review boards). In fact, if there was any binning that was going on with the RTX 5090 reviews, it would certainly make more sense for Nvidia not to identify these chips as ‘press tests’ so explicitly.
There are more urgent concerns on the RTX 5090, certainly, including whether you can actually buy one on the launch day (tomorrow, January 30) – as this is not the case with MSIS online store, we have just discovered. While you want to be able to pre-order an MSI RTX 5090 model tomorrow, it will not be sent until February 6th, we will be offered to vide and nvidia warn of potential stock shortage of RTX 5090 and RTX 5080. This is a topic , which has buzzing on the rumor mill for some time now, with a whole lot of pessimistic sounds, unfortunately.
