PNY and Palit have stolen my heart at Computex with their clean and shiny RTX 50-series graphics cards

PNY RTX 5080 Iron Core graphics card with Jensen Huang signature on a stand at Computex 2025 — (Image credit: Future)

There must be at least some people out there who share my view that it's the underside of the graphics card that's the most important. After all, unless you're vertically mounting the thing—which is admittedly getting more common—the underside is what you're most likely to be able to see. Which is why I have a lot of time for these chrome PNY RTX 50-series cards.

We spotted these yesterday over at PNY's stand at Computex Taiwan and they're pretty striking. If you're into shiny things (and who isn't, on some level?) they should be up your alley as there's an inordinate amount of chrome to the shroud and bottom plate.

I'm not a massive fan of convoluted or over-the-top designs—designs with too much going on—but the bottom of these Iron Core cards look clean. I just hope the anti-fingerprint coating doesn't remove too much of that shine.

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The Taipei 101 building and Taipei skyline in Taiwan. — (Image credit: Jacob Ridley)

Catch up with Computex 2025: We're on the ground at Taiwan's biggest tech show to see what Nvidia, AMD, Intel, Asus, Gigabyte, MSI and more have to show.

And speaking of graphics cards that look clean, Palit's got one for us, too—although it's just a concept piece, apparently. This one it calls the RTX 5090 Tornado, and of course it's signed by Jensen, too.

It's not a green card, by the way, that's just the Computex lighting for you. It's a dual-fan design, and the underside (to reiterate, the most important side—fight me) looks great with the mesh on either side where the fans are.

So, a big thank you to all the AIB manufacturers beginning with 'P', I guess. Those are some pretty clean and smart RTX 50-series designs, which is exactly what I like to see.

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Jacob got his hands on a gaming PC for the first time when he was about 12 years old. He swiftly realised the local PC repair store had ripped him off with his build and vowed never to let another soul build his rig again. With this vow, Jacob the hardware junkie was born. Since then, Jacob's led a double-life as part-hardware geek, part-philosophy nerd, first working as a Hardware Writer for PCGamesN in 2020, then working towards a PhD in Philosophy for a few years while freelancing on the side for sites such as TechRadar, Pocket-lint, and yours truly, PC Gamer. Eventually, he gave up the ruthless mercenary life to join the world's #1 PC Gaming site full-time. It's definitely not an ego thing, he assures us.

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