- Accusations have been made around the RTX 5090 review samples
- Some people think that GPUs labeled as ‘Press Build’ could be faster than retail products
- Nvidia has assured us this is not the case
Nvidia has denied that the RTX 5090 graphics cards sent to Press for review were different from the flagship joints that retailers will sell, after online accusations that the review samples were somehow ‘grouped’.
As Tom Hardware reports, there are brands in some RTX 5090 review models that say ‘Press Build’ (as seen in Techpowerup, for example), something commented by Andreas Schilling (editor of the Tech German Hardwareluxx site) in X .
Ian Cutress (of Techtechpotato) responded to Schilling’s comment on whether there was something ‘special’ about these graphics cards when joking the words in the RTX 5090 chip to read ‘Press Binned’ as you can see below (if it expands the publication) .
Binning refers to not throwing graphic chips in the dump, of course, but to the process of assigning silicon to different models of GPU (in ‘containers’ or groups). Each chip in a particular group that refers to a certain GPU model fits the base level specification (silicon that is not usually reused in a lower container), but some chips are really of a slightly higher quality and It can be pushed faster than base watch speeds.
That is why you get different levels of Overclock with a certain GPU, or in fact a CPU, with more head space in a higher quality chip (although it is in the same container), which is known as ” Win the silicon lottery “(you have a good overclocker, in summary).
Therefore, without deepening too much in the weeds of this, the insinuation made by some people online is that Nvidia has ensured that these best performance chips from the upper end of the container, so to speak, have been used in samples of review to review. Get the best results for RTX 5090.
Tom’s directly asked Nvidia if these RTX 5090 Press Build RTX 5090 founding cards were “Iterations of greater performance of retail homologists” and a Team Green representative replied: “Some GeForce RTX GPU With the planned use [the ‘Press Build’ stamp]. Its functionality and performance are identical to retail GPUs. “
In summary, the brand does not mean anything except to indicate that these graphics cards are models set aside to send to the press.
Analysis: unusual clarification, but clearly Nvidia felt it was necessary
This is a strange, and it is unusual for Nvidia to respond to such talks, but it is clear that the Green team felt the need to leave the record here.
We have to take the statement of Nvidia to the letter, but, of course, the difference that such binning could do would not be so great anyway. But even if it were, that would be a silly route for Nvidia to take, since the reviews of the Tables of third parties RTX 5090 compared to the edition of the founders would surely be strange if there was an obvious discrepancy. Yes, Nvidia’s own boards can be well designed and cooled, but it may also be sure that third -party models with more premium price labels will be.
I think Nvidia is being in front here, and any brand is only for administrative or legal purposes (protecting against the resale of the review joints, for example). In fact, if there were any binning with RTX 5090 reviews, it would surely make more sense to not identify those chips as’ samples of press so explicitly.
There are more pressing concerns at RTX 5090, surely, even if you can really buy one on the release day (tomorrow, January 30), since that is not the case with the MSI online store, we only have discovered. While tomorrow you can pre-order a MSI RTX 5090 model, it will not be sent until February 6, they tell us, and Nvidia warns about the possible shortage of stock of RTX 5090 and RTX 5080. This is an issue that has been buzzing in The rumor factory for some time, with many pessimistic noises, unfortunately.
