Items tagged with graphics cards
If you're a PC gamer, you'd better pray to whatever divine being or beings you believe in that your current graphics card doesn't give up the ghost. While there are still graphics cards on the market to buy, pricing for current-generation...
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Valve's latest audit of gaming PCs on Steam suggests that if you are not running a graphics card with 16GB of VRAM, then you are in the minority. For the first time, 16GB of VRAM tops the chart at 25.90% of systems that participated in the...
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If you were thinking about buying one of AMD's really quite excellent Radeon RX 9000 series graphics cards, you'd better get on the ball and do it soon, because more price hikes are on the way. That's the word out of China; specifically, this originates on the Board Channels forums, which are...
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ASRock has jumped the gun on revealing a surprise new entry-level addition to AMD's RDNA 4 graphics card family, the Radeon RX 9050, which is evidently being offered in both 4GB and 8GB variants. The add-in board (AIB) partner went live with a couple of product pages for its custom Challenger...
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There is a version of the current timeline we find ourselves in where NVIDIA would have refreshed its GeForce RTX 50 series with Super models by now. Instead, we are still waiting. In the meantime, a fan favorite has returned to retail at MSRP, that being a GeForce RTX 3060 with 12GB of GDDR6...
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It has been a minute since we've heard anything about a relaunched GeForce RTX 5050 with upgraded VRAM, and that could be due NVIDIA pausing or outright cancelling plans to release such a card. Apparently NVIDIA has gone radio silent to...
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For those unfamiliar, ZLUDA is a tool that allows unmodified CUDA code to run on non-NVIDIA GPUs. Up until a few months ago, it was being commercially funded, but ZLUDA is back to being a weekend project for now. That said, with the latest...
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In a move that would surely run afoul of food safety protocols and get a restaurant in hot water, a user on Reddit claims to have revived a broken Radeon graphics card by baking in the oven. The recipe for the unusual but apparently...
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NVIDIA is absolutely dominating the PC graphics card market. We already knew this, of course, but according to the latest market audit by Jon Peddie Research (JPR), NVIDIA's lead has grown to new heights to the point where virtually every...
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According to "two people with direct knowledge of the matter" speaking to The Information, NVIDIA will not be releasing new consumer GeForce GPUs this year. When pressed on the matter, an NVIDIA spokesperson remarked that "Demand for RTX...
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The GeForce RTX 4090 was known to have a problem with melting its 12VHPWR power connectors. In response to this issue, PCI-SIG modified the connector to create the revised 12V-2x6 plug. While this is an improvement, it doesn't help the...
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Sapphire has announced a special Nitro+ Radeon RX 9070 XT Crimson Desert Edition, and it's very clearly meant to be more than just a sticker-swap SKU. This is a full-on collaboration card tied to developer Pearl Abyss's upcoming...
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There was some significant controversy this summer when some customers complained of Gigabyte's GeForce RTX 50 series GPUs leaking the "server-grade thermal gel" that the board vendor touts on its product pages. Gigabyte acknowledged that...
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Well, it's the end of 2025, and the AI crunch is making hardware prices cruise for the stratosphere. At least, SSDs are rising and RAM is through the roof. However, one category that isn't affected at all yet are gaming GPUs. They're not...
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At Tokyo Game Show 2025 last week, MSI was proudly showcasing a new GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Ventus model with a unique feature: a rear-mounted 12V-2x6 connector that's inverted, facing downward, to minimize cable flex caused by the side of...
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Yesterday, NVIDIA began mysteriously delisting the Founders Edition GeForce RTX 5080 and GeForce RTX 5090 from its website, but only in select regions, and not always both cards. In the United States and United Kingdom, both cards are no...
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Overall shipments of GPUs increased by 8.4% to 74.7 million units in the second quarter, which is a sign of pre-tariff panic buying, according to a pair of reports by Jon Peddie Research. That figure includes 66.9 million PC processor...
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As NVIDIA's expected Super refresh for select GeForce RTX 50 series GPUs looms, some regular models are starting to become more widely available at MSRP. We saw this last week with the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti, but if you've had your heart set...
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The first official sighting of AMD's Radeon AI Pro R9700 out in the wild is now in the books after a user on Reddit scored a Gigabyte variant and then promptly posted a picture of the retail packaging. Announced back at Computex, AMD's...
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It took a minute, but prices on the latest-generation graphics cards are finally starting to stabilize, at least for some models. In particular, at least two partner models of NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5070 Ti can be found selling at the...
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AMD is expanding its discrete RDNA 4 GPU lineup with the launch of the Radeon RX 9060, a non-XT version of of the 9060 XT that now occupies the bottom spot in the Radeon RX 9000 series family. According to AMD, the entry-level gaming card...
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It's been a long while since AMD truly challenged NVIDIA at the top end of the GPU market, and to be fair, it's a place where a relatively small number of gamers hang out. Be that as it may, rumor has that AMD's next-generation flagship...
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