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Whether or not the RTX 50 series is a generational leap in performance, demand remains sky-high. Facing shortages, customers are already lining up outside a U.S. retailer before the January 30th release date. Is camping the best strategy to score an RTX 5080 or RTX 5090 at MSRP?

The Nvidia RTX 5090 FE features a slim two-slot design with an advanced cooling solution, including a two-thirds blow-through system and 3D vapor chamber. Innovations like liquid metal on the GPU die and user-friendly features such as repositioned ports should make the product superior to its predecessor.

3DMark Time Spy Graphics score of the RTX 5080 has surfaced online and it puts the RTX 5080 around 15% ahead of the RTX 4080 Super. This performance gap shrinks quite substantially when we compare the RTX 5080 to the RX 7900 XTX.

A discussion about the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 board has led to an interesting disclosure that might explain why some custom boards from companies like Asus and Gigabyte will allegedly launch with high price tags. However, any gamer and PC builder with some history with GeForce cards will know finding GPU stock at MSRP levels is akin to finding a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow.

The AMD Strix Halo lineup became official at CES 2025, and the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 and Max 390 sports the Radeon 8060S iGPU. Per a recently surfaced marketing material, this iGPU can offer up to 68.1% better performance than the Nvidia RTX 4070 Laptop GPU.

If you happen to have an RTX 5090 or RX 7900 XTX graphics card to connect to your shiny new OLED monitor, Silkland asserts that its latest 6.6-foot cable is the one for you. It is VESA-certifIed to support the up-to-80 gigabits per second (Gb/s) bandwidth spec of the DisplayPort 2.1 standard, and, thus, to handle the transmission of 8K content that goes at up to 240Hz.

FSR 4 is AMD's latest upscaling technology, maximizing frame rates with less latency and artifacts. When it launches in March, gamers will need a Radeon RX 9000 series GPU to take advantage of the feature. How can upgrading FSR 3.1 games to FSR 4 be such a simple process?

The GeForce RTX 5080 has been benchmarked on Geekbench and Blender. While it is remarkably faster than the RTX 4080 in OpenCL, it is not replicated in Vulkan and Blender.

Xbox Game Pass and Steam provide very different experiences to Ninja Gaiden 2 Black players. The just-released remaster only offers DLSS on Steam, robbing other gamers of enhanced performance. Why do so many Xbox Game Pass and Steam versions of the same game differ so dramatically?

Nvidia's latest flagship GPU, the RTX 5090, has a 28% higher TDP than its predecessor, the RTX 4090. This 28% increase in TDP, and a healthy increase in CUDA cores, makes the RTX 5090 around 27% faster vs the RTX 4090. However, the gain is much less when both cards use the same amount of power.

Doom: The Dark Ages brings new gameplay mechanics, a 30-foot mech, and a dragon, but skips on the multiplayer component. id Software has decided to keep this Doom game strictly single-player and make it the best campaign ever.

Prices for custom variants of the GeForce RTX 5090 and GeForce RTX 5080 graphics cards have apparently been leaked via retailer error. The highest-priced RTX 5090 card on the list is the Asus ROG Astral OC, which is supposedly going to have a price tag of $2,799.99. Shockingly, the highest-priced RTX 5080 board is $900 more than the official Nvidia variant.

B&H Photo and Video may have revealed when pre-orders for AMD's Radeon RX 9070 XT might open up. A listing on their website suggests a late-March sale date for the RDNA 4 flagship.

After revealing some initial information at CES 2025, AMD is officially releasing the RX 9000 RDNA 4 GPUs in March 2025. Possible reasons for AMD pushing RDNA 4 release date to March have now emerged online. It seems Team Red is fundamentally shifting how it handles Radeon product launches.

It looks like the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti will launch sooner than expected, if leaks from a large European hardware retailer are to be believed.

The RTX 5090 will force some gamers to upgrade their PC's power supply. Even with enough juice, buyers may worry that melted power connectors will spoil the fun. How do Nvidia (and its AIB partners) plan to avoid the issues that affected the RTX 4090?

Launch supply of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 is seemingly quite bad, as a custom gaming PC builder has warned users of the GPU's shortage. This is not the first time that we've heard about concerns pertaining to the RTX 5090's availability at launch.

3D Mark scores of the GeForce RTX 5090 have leaked online. Overall, the graphics card offers a decent performance uplift over its last-gen counterpart.

Many gamers find Nvidia GeForce Now to be the highest-quality cloud gaming solution. That popularity has led to lengthy queues and caps on playtime. Now, several GeForce Now service tiers are sold out, disappointing players hoping to stream the latest games. What is Nvidia doing to address the shortages?

CheckMag As GPUs hit silicon limits, raw performance gains are slowing, shifting focus to architectural innovation and real-world metrics like frame latency. Technologies like AI-driven rendering and 3D stacking promise a new era, where efficiency and smooth gameplay redefine how we measure and achieve GPU performance.

During the official reveal of the RDNA 4 GPUs at CES 2025, AMD confirmed a Q1 2025 launch. However, aside from revealing a vague release date target, the company has remained tight lipped on other details. Interestingly, MicroCenter reportedly already has supply of RX 9000 GPUs, making AMD's decision to push the RDNA 4 launch to March 2025 seem like a sudden development.

The ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 32GB GDDR7 OC Edition card has turned up in a short review video alongside the Zotac Gaming GeForce RTX 5090 Solid OC and Aorus GeForce RTX 5090 Master Ice 32G cards. The whopping graphics card from Asus tipped the scales at almost the same weight as an average full-term female baby.

An AMD executive has revealed a tentative launch window for its RDNA 4-based desktop GPUs. The Radeon RX 9070 XT and others are expected to hit shelves in March 2025.

The RTX 30 and RTX 40 series may unexpectedly benefit from the main DLSS 4 selling point. Can the older GPUs take advantage of multi frame generation? Nvidia's Bryan Catanzaro gave gamers some clues in a recent interview.

Launch supply of the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 is reportedly going to be tight. According to Moore's Law Is Dead, the RTX 5090 stock at launch from AIB's is expected to be on the same level as the RTX 3090, a GPU that also had pretty constrained launch supply.

According to a recent post on PCGH, the RTX 50-series gaming GPUs, including and especially the flagship RTX 5090, will witness limited supply at launch, at least in Germany. A select few retailers at the higher rungs of Nvidia's tiered structure will get inventory first, with the rest following only much later.

A recently uploaded listing on Blender Open Data has revealed how well the RTX 5090 performs in Blender, using the OptiX rendering engine. The result appears to line up almost exactly with what we would have expected from the Blackwell flagship, thanks to its substantially higher core count.

The GeForce RTX 50-series launch was something of a mixed bag. While Nvidia's AI-driven DLSS 4 and frame-generation allows for some incredible FPS figures, the improvements in terms of raw performance appears to be far more modest. Thanks to a recent forum post, it appears we now know how ahead the RTX 5090 is without any AI assistance.

The RTX 5090 desktop GPU has been tested by a YouTuber with and without DLSS and Frame Generation in Cyberpunk 2077. With full Path Tracing enabled at 4K resolution and ultra settings, the RTX 5090 needs DLSS to push the average FPS above 60. For the GPU to hit 100+ FPS, Frame Generation is seemingly necessary.

The Intel Arc B570 is one of the 2 Arc Battlemage GPU that Intel revealed back in December 2024. Reviews of the GPU are now here, and the card appears to be much slower than the Arc B580, while matching the RTX 4060 at 1440p which means the price-performance ratio might not be the best here.

Buyers may not have a fallback option if Nvidia RTX 50 series cards are hard to find. Retailers are already signaling that the RTX 4070 and RTX 4060 are nearing the end of production.

Nvidia has published some first-party benchmarks of the GeForce RTX 5090, RTX 5080, RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5070. As anticipated, these cards heavily rely on software features like DLSS 4.0 to offer meaningful performance upgrades over their last-gen counterparts.

While 8 GB of VRAM may be enough for 1080p in older titles, it is simply not sufficient for modern titles, especially with ray tracing or high-resolution gaming. This was confirmed by a deep-dive by PC Games Hardware, who pit the Radeon RX 7600 against the RX 7600 XT - two borderline identical GPUs, but with vastly different amounts of VRAM.

Zotac has listed its upcoming RTX 5090 AMP Extreme Infinity graphics card on its website, revealing key specifications of the card, including higher clock speeds and a massive 600-watt TDP.

A typically reliable leaker has revealed new details about one of Nvidia's upcoming mid-range desktop graphics cards. While the GeForce RTX 5060 may launch with 8 GB of GDDR7 VRAM by default, a 12 GB option should be available too.

A prototype Nvidia RTX Titan Ada graphics card has emerged, boasting a fully enabled AD102 GPU with 18,432 CUDA cores and 48 GB of GDDR6 memory.

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 50 series GPUs are expected to set new standards for gaming performance. Still, many buyers are waiting for trusted websites to evaluate the latest graphics cards. Nvidia has changed the embargo date for the RTX 5080, while RTX 5090 reviews are set go live on January 24th.

The upcoming Intel Arc B570 Battlemage-based GPU will allegedly launch later this month, and recent leaked benchmarks and pricing indicate that it will be a solid entry-level card, cutting both the price and performance by 12% compared to the B580.

The Biden administration has introduced new export controls on advanced AI chips, granting 18 key allies broad access while imposing strict licensing requirements on others. The new rule aims to limit China's access to both advanced chips and AI models. The policy aims to safeguard U.S. leadership in AI and prevent adversaries from leveraging the technology for military and strategic gains, but it has drawn criticism from industry leaders like Nvidia for potentially undermining American innovation and competitiveness.

All_The_Watts has leaked the announcement date, performance, and TDP range of the debut RDNA 4 cards, the RX 9070 and 9070 XT. The new information aligns with previous rumors when it comes to performance projections while revealing a potential 300+ W RX 9070 XT TDP.

AMD's recently revealed FidelityFX Super Resolution 4 has been thoroughly put through its paces in an early hands-on, and the new upscaling tech appears to be significantly faster and higher quality than its predecessors.

The RX 9070 and the RX 9070 XT are the first two RDNA 4 GPUs that AMD unwrapped at CES 2025. However, Team Red left out the full announcement, including the specs, price, and possible performance, to an unannounced future date. Courtesy of Moore's Law Is Dead and a rumor on Chiphell forum, we now know the RX 9070/XT reveal and review date.

A new leak from Chiphell tells us how much AMD's Radeon RX 9070 XT could cost. Apparently, it will be slightly more affordable than Nvidia's GeForce RTX 5070.

The AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT has been benchmarked on 3D Mark Time Spy Extreme and Speed Way. In the former, it puts up a formidable fight against the GeForce RTX 4080, but fails to replicate that in the next test.

The AMD Radeon RX 9070 is one half of the first two RDNA 4 desktop GPUs that are scheduled to release in Q1 2025. While AMD has yet to fully reveal the RDNA 4 cards, the RX 9070 has been tested in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and the results are quite impressive.

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 laptop model has shown up on Geekbench with 16 GB VRAM and 60 SMs. It offers a decent performance uplift over the RTX 4080 even though it appears to be running well below its maximum boost clock.

The newly announced RTX 5080 desktop GPU is looking like a solid upgrade over the RTX 4080 Super thanks to the enticing price of just $999 and the promise a big performance boost with DLSS 4 Frame Generation. According to some preliminary testing done by Digital Foundry, the 4x DLSS 4 Frame Generation indeed gives a major performance uplift and brings some notable image quality gains.

Nvidia DLSS 4 promises significantly better gaming performance by generating three out of four frames using artificial intelligence. Users of older graphics cards back to the GeForce RTX 2000 are also expected to benefit from DLSS 4.