The flagship MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Gaming Trio graphics card caught fire during the first PC boot. The owner of the $2000 card won't get warranty repair — because he bought it from the wrong place. Part of me thought the rumors about Nvidia’s RTX 50-series GPUs were wrong. But the RTX 5090 is just as insane as everyone said it would be. In January 2025, the GeForce RTX 5090 was officially released with a price of $1999. In February 2025, NVIDIA confirmed that some RTX 5090 GPUs might have production anomalies, and affected consumers could contact the manufacturer for a replacement. A Bilibili user sees their new MSI GeForce RTX 5090 32G Gaming Trio OC graphics card catch fire. In a shocking turn of events, a Chinese gamer recently documented their RTX 5090 GPU catching fire during a gaming session. It’s a stark reminder of the risks involved in pushing high-performance hardware to its limits. The good news is the RTX 5090’s 32GB of GDDR7, massive memory bandwidth, strong ray-tracing performance, creator features and unusually compact Founders Edition design. The bad news is the 575-watt power requirement, 16-pin connector reports, limited availability and a price that can make the card difficult to justify—especially at 2026 street prices. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 flagship graphics card continues to see massive price increases, and now retails for over $6000. The RTX 5090 represents NVIDIA’s first consumer GPU built on the Blackwell architecture, featuring 21,760 CUDA cores and 32GB of GDDR7 memory. This is a 33% increase in CUDA cores compared to the RTX 4090’s 16,384 cores. The RTX 5090 officially launched on January 30, 2026, marking NVIDIA’s most powerful consumer GPU release ever. I’ve been tracking this launch closely since the CES announcement, and what we’re seeing is both exciting and concerning. In this comprehensive guide we cover everything: the full technical specifications, how the Blackwell architecture actually works, what DLSS 4 means for your gaming experience, thermal and power behavior, who should buy it, and how it stacks up against the competition.