Purported Nvidia RTX 5090 powered on in an Indonesian factory — GeForce card booting Windows causes cheers among factory staff

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Has Zotac spilled the beans once again?

Possible RTX 5090 Sighting
(Image credit: Bilibili)

A video has just surfaced showcasing, what is allegedly Nvidia's upcoming GeForce RTX 5090, powered on in a factory. The leak comes from a Chiphell thread (as spotted by Everest on X) which leads us to a video over at Bilibili.

The footage shows a large number of production line debugging systems on the left, with one successfully booting into Windows. On seeing this, the workers rejoice as this might be one of the first boot-ups of the RTX 5090. It appears that the RTX 5090 has exited the validation stage, moving on to mass production, which may be just around the corner.

There is also some interesting information about the factory's whereabouts shared on various Chinese social media. The Bilibili video asserts that US sanctions will impact RTX 5090 sales to China as GPUs with more processing power than the RTX 4090D have been barred from export. To keep losses at a minimum, Zotac has reportedly established a factory in Batam, Indonesia to keep the supply line with China intact.

The RTX 5090, from what is visible, seems to utilize a single power connector, dispelling any rumors about the necessity for dual 16-pin connectors. The video voiceover reports that the cooler is marginally larger than the RTX 4090 but not by much. This rumored RTX 5090 likely belongs to Zotac's GAMING family, sporting a triple-fan layout and possibly a 3 or 4-slot design.

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Workers rejoicing on the boot up of the RTX 5090
Workers rejoicing on the boot up of the RTX 5090(Image credit: Bilibili)

Based on recent rumors, the RTX 5090 will be powered by the GB202 chip, hosting over 20,000 CUDA cores along with 32GB of GDDR7 memory over a 512-bit memory interface. It is expected that Nvidia will announce the GeForce RTX 50 (Blackwell) series at CES 2025 next January and by that time we will see for sure if this leak holds true or not.

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Hassam Nasir
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Hassam Nasir is a die-hard hardware enthusiast with years of experience as a tech editor and writer, focusing on detailed CPU comparisons and general hardware news. When he’s not working, you’ll find him bending tubes for his ever-evolving custom water-loop gaming rig or benchmarking the latest CPUs and GPUs just for fun.

9 Comments Comment from the forums
  • Ashcanwin
    I’d think that if this really is such a powerful system it would boot much faster than that. My 10 year old Mac can boot up twice that fast!
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  • USAFRet
    Ashcanwin said:
    I’d think that if this really is such a powerful system it would boot much faster than that. My 10 year old Mac can boot up twice that fast!
    When your Mac was at that same stage of development, it also took a long time to boot.
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  • awake283
    Ashcanwin said:
    I’d think that if this really is such a powerful system it would boot much faster than that. My 10 year old Mac can boot up twice that fast!
    AM5 system with 64GB... boot up gives you enough time to go make breakfast and coffee.
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  • OMGPWNTIME
    Ashcanwin said:
    I’d think that if this really is such a powerful system it would boot much faster than that. My 10 year old Mac can boot up twice that fast!
    I'm only speculating, but I'd imagine a debugging system is running many more in-depth tests and verifications on bootup.
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  • Ashcanwin
    Ashcanwin said:
    I’d think that if this really is such a powerful system it would boot much faster than that. My 10 year old Mac can boot up twice that fast!

    OMGPWNTIME said:
    I'm only speculating, but I'd imagine a debugging system is running many more in-depth tests and verifications on bootup.
    True! Good point.
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  • Jaxstarke9977
    awake283 said:
    AM5 system with 64GB... boot up gives you enough time to go make breakfast and coffee.
    Go into BIOS Advanced Mode - AI Tweaker - DRAM Timing Control - scroll down to Memory Context Restore and Enable. Next go to Advanced - AMD CBS - UMC Common Options - DDR Options - DDR Memory Features - Memory Context Restore and Enable. Exit - Save Changes and Reset.
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  • USAFRet
    Jaxstarke9977 said:
    Go into BIOS Advanced Mode - AI Tweaker - DRAM Timing Control - scroll down to Memory Context Restore and Enable. Next go to Advanced - AMD CBS - UMC Common Options - DDR Options - DDR Memory Features - Memory Context Restore and Enable. Exit - Save Changes and Reset.
    This has nothing to do with components that are still very very early in the development process.
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  • awake283
    Jaxstarke9977 said:
    Go into BIOS Advanced Mode - AI Tweaker - DRAM Timing Control - scroll down to Memory Context Restore and Enable. Next go to Advanced - AMD CBS - UMC Common Options - DDR Options - DDR Memory Features - Memory Context Restore and Enable. Exit - Save Changes and Reset.
    I tried the memory context restore feature but it led to some odd instability issues for me. I will try it again with that second option enabled. Thanks :)
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  • Jaxstarke9977
    awake283 said:
    I tried the memory context restore feature but it led to some odd instability issues for me. Havent messed with those other options though, I will try it again with that second option enabled.
    Yeah, I had to enable it in both places to get it to work for me.
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