Leading up to the launch of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090, there was a huge amount of speculation that the new gaming GPU could come with a power rating of 600W or more, but when it was eventually officially unveiled the RTX 5090 power marker was set at just shy of that, at 575W. Zotac, however, has seemingly taken this leaked figure as a challenge, as its Gaming GeForce RTX 5090 Amp Extreme Infinity comes with a 600W power consumption rating.
As the presumptive heir to the best graphics card crown, the RTX 5090 is set to be a monstrously powerful card, with 50% more CUDA cores than the Nvidia RTX 4090, improved ray tracing performance, support for new DLSS 4 Multi Frame generation and more. However, for those still rocking a modest power supply and hoping to upgrade, this Zotac card is proof that you’ll most definitely need to upgrade.
Spotted by tech website, Videocardz, the specs for these new Zotac cards are plain to see on the company’s website and mark the first time any official RTX 5090 graphics card specs have shown a figure higher than 575W.
While Zotac doesn’t explicitly address the reason for this higher power rating, the card does have a higher engine clock speed than the company’s other two RTX 5090 offerings, the Zotac Gaming GeForce RTX 5090 Solid and Zotac Gaming GeForce RTX 5090 Solid OC. However, the difference isn’t huge.
The Zotac Gaming GeForce RTX 5090 Solid comes with an engine clock speed listed at 2,407MHz while the OC version of that card raises this to 2,422MHz. The Gaming GeForce RTX 5090 Amp Extreme Infinity, though moves this all the way up to the lofty heights of 2,467MHz. Yes, that’s a 2.5% overclock for a 4.3% increase in power consumption, or more specifically in power rating.
Although Zotac hasn’t released pricing, yet, we would assume the Extreme Infinity comes with a price premium, but thankfully that gets you more than just an overclock. The card incorporates a much more prominent strip of RGB lighting along its top edge and has an illuminated front end too. The Solid cards have an RGB Zotac logo but that’s it.
Meanwhile, all three cards are far larger than Nvidia’s own RTX 5090 Founders Edition card, with them sporting three-slot-width coolers that are very long and tall too. The RTX 5090 FE’s clever flow-through cooling system allows that card to be just two slots thick, though its cooler design means you’ll want to keep neighboring slots free anyway.
As for powering these cards, all three Zotac cards and indeed all RTX 5090s come with a recommended power supply rating of 1,000W, with power for these cards delivered by a conventional 16-pin connector connector, rather than the angled connector on Nvidia’s own card.
Given the high amounts of power involved here, you’ll want to get the most efficient power supply as possible for the RTX 5090, which would mean getting an 80 Plus Titanium-rated supply. However, these supplies are very expensive – see the Be Quiet! Dark Power 13 1000W on sale here for $249 – so instead an 80 Plus Gold supply, such as the Corsair RM1000e available here for $155, is one you might consider. For more PSU buying advice, check out our best power supply guide.