Friday, February 6th 2026 MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Lightning Z GPU Listed at $5,200 in Taiwan by AleksandarK Today, 12:40 Discuss (3 ) MSI's most powerful GPU—the GeForce RTX 5090 Lightning Z—will come with an extreme price tag to match, as the company has listed its GPU for NT$165,000, which works out to about $5,200. The company noted this pricing in a 24-hour giveaway scheduled to begin on Monday, February 9, at Taiwanese time, lasting until Tuesday, February 10. The listing has revealed that the card we previewed at the 2026 International CES show is not only a premium design but also a premium-priced product, as the supply is limited to only 1,300 samples. MSI advertises a factory boost clock of 2,730 MHz and an Extreme Performance OC profile of 2,775 MHz. Additionally, the GPU is capable of reaching 3,742 MHz, which is the fastest LN2 GeForce RTX 5090 GPU ever. The MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Lightning Z will come with an 800 W power limit out of the box, while the Extreme power preset mode gives it a 1000 W power envelope on the 360 mm AIO water cooling. The extensive engineering involved in the PCB design along with a 40-phase VRM allows the GPU to sustain multi-kilowatt loads. The card uses 28 Gbps Samsung GDDR7 memory, which can be overclocked to 36 Gbps on LN2. Additionally, only LN2 is capable of taming the XOC BIOS, which comes with 2.5 kW of power load and will require extensive PCB modifications. For a product that costs $5,200, only extreme overclockers would dare to modify the card. For the rest of us mere mortals, MSI recommends a power supply with a capacity of 1600 W, providing ample room for basic overclocking without ruining the card. Sources: MSI Taiwan, via VideoCardz Related News Tags: GeForce GPU Lightning LN2 MSI premium RTX 5090 Taiwan Sep 10th 2025 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50-Series SUPER GPUs Could Arrive at CES 2026 (69) Dec 31st 2025 Leaks Predict $5000 RTX 5090 GPUs in 2026 Thanks to AI Industry Demand (124) Dec 17th 2025 NVIDIA Plans to Reduce RTX 50 Production by Up to 40% in Early 2026 (83) Jan 5th 2026 MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Lighting Z Hands On: 40-Phase VRM and 2,500 W XOC BIOS (22) Jan 31st 2026 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090/5080 FE SKUs Sell Out in Few Minutes on Company Marketplace (47) Mar 27th 2025 Gamers Are Refusing the Sky-High RTX 5090 GPU Prices, Leaving Shelves Full of $4,000 GPUs (73) Nov 18th 2025 AMD & NVIDIA Reportedly Consider GPU Cuts, ASUS and Others Slow Motherboard Plans Amid Memory Shortage (36) Nov 27th 2025 NVIDIA May Stop Bundling Memory with GPU Kits Amid GDDR Shortage (20) Jan 5th 2026 MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Lighting Z Comes with 2,500 W XOC BIOS and Dual 12V-2x6 Connectors (27) Jan 31st 2026 Streamer's MSI RTX 4090 Gaming Trio Takes a Smoke Break as 12vHPWR Nearly Claims Another Victim (41) Add your own 3 on MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Lightning Z GPU Listed at $5,200 in Taiwan #1 dgianstefani TPU Proofreader One beautiful card, though at that price I'd just pay the extra for RTX 6000 Blackwell and get more cores and triple the VRAM. 24064 cores vs 21760. #2 Onasi Almost a bargain, really. Quite worth it just to play vidya gaems at barely 60 FPS due to amazing optimization efforts of modern developers who truly are unprecedented savants. No, but snark aside, as @dgianstefani said, of you have that much scratch and aren’t an extreme OCer chasing records - just get the Pro card. You are most likely aren’t just gaming at that point. #3 dgianstefani TPU Proofreader OnasiAlmost a bargain, really. Quite worth it just to play vidya gaems at barely 60 FPS due to amazing optimization efforts of modern developers who truly are unprecedented savants. No, but snark aside, as @dgianstefani said, of you have that much scratch and aren’t an extreme OCer chasing records - just get the Pro card. You are most likely aren’t just gaming at that point.Plus there's a Max Q version of the 6000 that has a 300 W TDP but it's still faster than the 5090.
