At the 2026 International CES, we went hands on with a new crop of ultra-premium custom-design GeForce RTX 5090 graphics cards that launched in quick succession of each other this year, exactly 1 year following the RTX 5090's original launch. Earlier today, we also held the Inno3D iChill RTX 5090 Frostbite PRO , another such recently announced premium RTX 5090 custom-design. The GIGABYTE RTX 5090 AORUS Infinity and ASUS RTX 5090 ProArt stand out as being the first custom design implementations of NVIDIA's Dual Flow-Through cooler design that it introduced with the RTX 5090 Founders Edition graphics card, the company's de facto reference design.

This design involves placing the main PCB of the card with the GPU, memory, and VRM, as a separate, centrally located component, with heat drawn from these hot components projecting along the length of the card, and fans located at both ends, push air through the cooler and out of the backplate, through cutouts. The PCB relies on additional breakout PCBs for the PCI-Express gold fingers, and the display I/O. GIGABYTE's design sees two large 120 mm fans pump air through the heatsink, with some of it being guided through the central region of the cooler. GIGABYTE has used a similar two-tone color scheme as NVIDIA Founders Edition. We can't wait to get our hands on this card to see how the cooler fares against rival custom designs.