Items tagged with geforce rtx 5090
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Thiago Trevisan - Mon, Mar 17, 2025
This GPU generation has been quite the spectacle for the consumer. More accurately, we're the gladiators in the ring, with pricing becoming a daily battle. ASUS, one of the premium board partners for both NVIDIA and AMD, seems to be on the...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Mar 11, 2025
The general scarcity of NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 50 series has created a market where GPUs are selling for insane prices at places like eBay. That's not the only thing driving up the cost, though. Over in China, smugglers are making some...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Feb 27, 2025
Forget for a moment that it's almost impossible to find a GeForce RTX 5090 in stock or that pricing on some of custom models is way above NVIDIA's baseline MSRP for its Founders Edition variant. All that aside, ASUS is touting a rash of...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Feb 26, 2025
It's been almost a month since the GeForce RTX 5090 and GeForce RTX 5080 landed on retail shelves, both of which sold out in all of a nanosecond (or at least it felt that way). In the days and weeks since, multiple retailers and add-in...
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Paul Lilly - Sat, Feb 22, 2025
It turns out that a spattering of reports about some GeForce RTX 5090 graphics cards shipping with missing render output unit (or raster operations pipeline) hardware were the result of a "production anomaly" and not an issue with the...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Feb 21, 2025
If you thought "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" was an odd premise, wait until you get a load of the curious case of missing render output unit hardware (or raster operations pipeline, if you prefer—ROP from here on out) on some...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Feb 21, 2025
If you blinked, you missed the initial wave of GeForce RTX 5090 graphics cards at retail before they sold out. And if you sneezed, you also missed your window of opportunity to snag a GeForce RTX 5080. The GeForce RTX 5070 Ti came and went...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Feb 20, 2025
Whether retailers want to admit it or not, you have almost no shot of a bagging a GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card against the barrage of bots and scalpers that swoop in whenever there's an inventory refresh. Stock has been slightly better...
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Thiago Trevisan - Wed, Feb 19, 2025
With the launch of NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 50 series GPUs, we also get more niche products related to the the company's Blackwell architecture. That includes several laptop variants of the RTX 50 series lineup, which ASUS has taken the...
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Thiago Trevisan - Mon, Feb 17, 2025
The launch of NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 50 series has come and left many disappointed in the low availability of the initial GPU lineup. NVIDIA's flagship GeForce RTX 5090 has been particularly difficult to find, with consumers lining up early...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Feb 12, 2025
Oh boy, I can hear the clanging of pitchforks and crackling of fire from torches over the notion that AMD's upcoming Radeon RX 9070 XT will somehow challenge NVIDIA's flagship GeForce RTX 5090, which is a monster GPU and the fastest...
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Aaron Leong - Wed, Feb 12, 2025
Is it possible to adapt data center server cooling solutions for personal use? A Chinese techtuber has taken the question to task by adapting a 12,000 BTU (British Thermal Unit) air conditioner compressor to a gaming PC equipped with an...
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Paul Lilly - Sat, Feb 08, 2025
The severe shortage of GeForce RTX 5080 and especially GeForce RTX 5090 graphics cards has NVIDIA's retail and hardware partners experimenting with ways to get a limited number of gaming GPUs into the hands of actual gamers. We saw this...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Feb 07, 2025
You may have noticed that NVIDIA's newest graphics cards, the GeForce RTX 5090 and GeForce RTX 5080, are nearly impossible to find in stock. In the wake of what looks like a severe shortage (which has people dubbing this a paper launch)...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Feb 06, 2025
Anyone remember the spoofed Apple iPhone 5s ad on the Conan O'Brien show a little over a decade ago? Pretend pitchman Raffi, dressed in a silk shirt and gold chains, enthusiastically declared, "Gold is best!" in reference to Apple's new...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Feb 03, 2025
Whether the result of unprecedented demand, a bot invasion, or a paper launch (as some have surmised), all that really matters right now for gamers in the market for a GeForce RTX 5090 or GeForce RTX 5080 GPU is when retailers will have...
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Paul Lilly - Sun, Feb 02, 2025
Outside of camping out in front of a Micro Center location days ahead of the retail release, scoring a GeForce RTX 5090 has been a near-impossible proposition. Even pitching a tent was not a guarantee of procuring NVIDIA's newest flagship...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Jan 31, 2025
It's become clear that there are not enough GeForce RTX 5090 graphics cards to meet demand, and while we can debate the reasons why until we're blue in the face, it won't change the fact this now ranks as one of the most...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Jan 30, 2025
After a months of leaks and rumors followed by weeks of anticipation, NVIDIA's much-ballyhooed GeForce RTX 5090 released to retail this morning, and then sold out in a nanosecond. Maybe even faster. It was a 'blink-and-you-missed' it retail launch, though not an unexpected one—NVIDIA this week...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Jan 29, 2025
NVIDIA's new flagship graphics card, the GeForce RTX 5090, is scheduled for a retail debut on Thursday, January 30 (which is tomorrow, at the time of this writing). Same goes for the GeForce RTX 5080. However, the retail release comes amid...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Jan 28, 2025
It's pretty wild to think that gamers (and probably scalpers) are camping out for a graphics card launch days before it releases to retail, yet it's happening. If you don't feel like pitching a tent in front of Micro Center as some have...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Jan 27, 2025
Anticipation is running high for the retail release of NVIDIA's newest flagship graphics card, the GeForce RTX 5090, but if history is any indication, cards could be hard to come by at MSRP. At least in the early going. We're already...
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