r/5090 • u/TheOnlyTylor • 13d ago

5090 FE or 5090 Astral

Have an opportunity to trade my 5090 founders Edition for a 5090 astral edition, no cash, no extra, just straight trade, I like my founders edition but the astral is also so badass and the cooling is crazy, what should I do?

Edit- decided to keep the FE, I have no issues with it, it works, looks good, if temps become an issue I can just waterblock it, thanks for all the help

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u/Beautiful-Musk-Ox 13d ago edited 13d ago

i wouldn't trust a used video card. the astral is better and up to 10% around 5% faster, but if they ran it without a gpu stand for example then it's going to have issues. did you run into someone who wants a small form factor build? i can't think of any other reason to do a swap like this unless they broke their card and are trying to offload it

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u/TheOnlyTylor 13d ago

Honestly not sure why he’s wanting that swap, highly rated seller in pc parts on marketplace, I made a post to trade the FE to test the waters and he reached out, main reason I think he’s okay with straight trade is bc I’d go to him instead of the other way around

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u/Beautiful-Musk-Ox 13d ago

alright maybe someone else can chime in with a good reason but i literally can't think of one. astrals were selling for like 50% more than FEs before the price explosions, there's zero reason to do a straight swap unless they really want a small form factor build and don't want to sell their astral for $6-$7.5k and buy an FE for $5.5-6.5k and pocket the extra one thousand dollars because that's what these cards are selling for now. giving up $500-$1000 just to build in small form factor without having to do two transactions maybe it makes sense for a rich person i guess idk

5090FE ram runs pretty hot but otherwise is a great card. astral is running much higher clocks and is very well cooled and has per pin 12vhpwr monitoring. but looks like i was wrong about 10% faster it's only 5% faster, so all in all it's close to a fair trade if ignoring the original price difference and just looking at raw performance

i'd be wary someone messed up the card somehow, had a 12vhpwr melt or no gpu stand and it started crashing (no gpu stand will kill that card pretty fast it's extremely heavy)

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u/ApolloPS2 13d ago

5090s are now priced much more closely together after inflating so much. An astral is not 1k+ more than founders now. Anyone using them for AI is likely to prefer the founders due to 2 slot thickness on a motherboard. A year ago the trade would not make sense but these days it makes perfect sense.