Gigabyte's new Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 takes me right back to my favorite childhood movie

I've certainly seen some outlandish graphics card cooler designs in my time, but few have evoked such nostalgia as this one. Maybe it's just me, but the Gigabyte Aorus RTX 5090 Infinity 32G immediately brought to mind 1986's movie masterpiece, Short Circuit, and its not-at-all-a-killer-robot hero, Johnny Five.

Thankfully, while Nvidia continues to push its AI prowess on all fronts, there's little chance of its best graphics card suddenly becoming sentient, sporting a spiked metal mohawk, and making puns about recycling… unless Gigabyte has implemented some features it hasn't publicly mentioned.

The star of this graphics card show, then, is the Windforce Hyperburst cooler on this large graphics card. Details on the cooler's specs (such as fan size) are slim on the ground, but it definitely sports two huge fans on either end of the card. These work in a similar fashion to Nvidia's own Founders Edition RTX 5090, using a split PCB, which means the front fan can blow air uninterrupted through the card.

What's more, this cooler also incorporates a third fan hidden in the middle of the card that only kicks in when absolutely needed. This Overdrive Fan evokes memories of the supposed RTX 4090 Ti prototype, leaks of which have done the rounds for the past year or two.

Along with its distinctive cooler, the Gigabyte Aorus RTX 5090 Infinity 32G also includes "RGB Halo" lighting, as shown above, and it has a dual-BIOS feature that lets you run the card in a performance or silent mode.

Other than these features, this is a standard RTX 5090, with its 21,760 CUDA cores, 32GB of GDDR7 VRAM, and 600W of power draw, and performance that you can read about in our RTX 5090 review. Pricing and a release date have yet to be announced.