Items tagged with graphics cards
Sparkle is a company that has been around since 1982, yet the vendor has only recently started selling products for the consumer PC market. Its most visible offerings are graphics cards, which it bases exclusively on Intel's Arc GPUs. Sparkle favors mythical creatures for its GPU lineups, like "Orc" and "Titan";...
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I'm dating myself with this reference, but for anyone who gives a hoot, one thing I learned a long time ago from a cartoon owl is that it takes three licks to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop. Here's another sweet fact: you should be able to install and uninstall your graphics card way more than three times without damaging
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The great graphics card shortage of 2025 (yes, I'm officially dubbing it as such now, at least in reference to NVIDIA's newest generation GeForce RTX 50 series) is not only frustrating, it's also stalling growth in the PC GPU market, according to the latest report by the bean counters (or would that be chip counters?)...
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Have you ever tried remotely diagnosing and ultimately resolving a computer issue for a frantic friend or family member who's having an issue, or a litany of PC-related issues? It's no easy task. Now put yourself in the shoes of NVIDIA's driver team, which is currently investigating a rash of stability issues across a...
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A user on Reddit has posted a GPU-Z screenshot that purportedly shows their GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition graphics card with fewer render operation pipelines (ROPs), or render output units if you prefer, than what are supposed to be there. It's the first case we're aware of with missing ROPs on a GeForce RTX 5080...
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Frank Azor, a PC industry vet who co-founded Alienware before joining AMD as its Chief Architect of Gaming Solutions and Marketing five and a half years ago, is not shying away from rumors of there being a Radeon RX 9070 XT with 32GB of VRAM on the roadmap. In comical fashion, he issued a 'correction' to the rumor on...
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It wouldn't be a new GPU launch without some chaos, and NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 50 series is keeping the tradition alive. Just weeks after hitting the market—if you can even call it that, given the ongoing stock shortages—multiple reports have surfaced claiming that the first driver update for the RTX 50 "Blackwell" GPU...
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Around this time last week, reports began to surface that the nifty quick release mechanism ASUS implements on many of its motherboards was causing physical damage to graphics cards. Called Q-Release Slim, it's intended to make removing graphics cards a cinch. But does it come at the expense of too much harsh grinding...
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Intel's foray into the modern era of discrete GPUs has mostly focused on mid-range and entry-level solutions, a strategy it employed with its first generation Arc Alchemist architecture and, so far, again with its with second generation Arc Battlemage lineup. We don't see that shifting—NVIDIA has a stranglehold on the...
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At one point, NVIDIA may have considered releasing an RTX Titan Ada or GeForce RTX 4090 Ti graphics card based on its now-last generation Ada Lovelace architecture. Neither card ever materialized, of course, but the rumor persists and even gained some additional traction thanks to the above photo and an accompanying...
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NVIDIA is promising some monster gains from its new flagship graphics card, the GeForce RTX 5090. That's especially true if taking advantage of a new DLSS implementation, DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation, which is a whole topic in and of itself. DLSS or no DLSS, the GeForce RTX 5090 is a beast, based on the specs...
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Gamers and technology enthusiasts are not the only ones eagerly waiting for NVIDIA to unveil its next-generation GeForce RTX 50 series, so are some of its hardware partners. Adding to a growing number of leaks, iBuyPower, a popular builder of custom gaming PCs, went live a little early with multiple listings equipped...
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Intel earned itself some high praise for its Arc Battlemage B580 graphics card, which we dubbed a "mighty midrange gaming GPU" in our review. Not only is it relatively affordable at $249 (when you can find it in stock from a first-party seller, that is), but it boasts 12GB of GDDR6 memory. That's notable, given the...
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The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is right around the corner and, as is typically the case, we're expecting a bevy of product announcements. That includes new generation GPU launches from both AMD and NVIDIA, after Intel beat both of them to the punch with its Arc B580 Battlemage release. As CES draws closer, we may...
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Psst, hey you. Yeah, you, the one with a big wad of cash and an aging graphics card in desperate need of being retired for something new. Are you planning to buy NVIDIA's upcoming GeForce RTX 5090 flagship? That's great, but know what would be even better? A GeForce RTX 5090 Ti. Know what would be even better than...
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The market for comparatively affordable GPUs is absolutely ravenous and proof of this is in the pudding. The pudding, in this case, is retailers selling out of their initial batches of Intel Arc B580 graphics cards in super-quick fashion. Some people will inevitably deem this a paper launch, though if you ask Intel...
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Typically, graphics cards use PCI Express x16 slots. That's a PCIe slot configured with sixteen individual data lanes. These data lanes are physical connections, and that's why an "x16" slot is so long. There's nothing mandating that GPUs have to use x16 slots, though; many GPUs in the past have used x8 or even x4...
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Two things you can always count on when it comes to Indiana Jones are his iconic leather jacket and his trusty whip. Three things, if you add his fedora into the mix. It looks like all three will be included in Bethesda's upcoming Indiana Jones and the Great Circle game, and if you're planning to play on PC, there's a...
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Intel has been adamant that it plans to continue developing discrete GPUs after getting back in the game with Arc Alchemist, which at the time ended a long hiatus dating all the way back to Larrabee. The next big release is Battlemage, and in no uncertain terms, Intel's Tom 'Tap' Peterson teased in a recent...
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It's widely expected that Intel will beat AMD and NVIDIA to the punch with a new generation of graphics cards, and namely its Arc Battlemage lineup. Multiple leaks and rumors back this up, with the latest batch hinting at possible pricing for the Arc B580 via an early retail listing, as well as alleged specifications...
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We still have around a month and a half to wait before the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) kicks off, with NVIDIA co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang scheduled to deliver a keynote. Reading the tea leaves suggests that's when we'll see the formal launch of NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 50 series. In the meantime, the leaks and...
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Some of the most prominent leakers on the web appear to be at odds over how much NVIDIA's beastly next-gen GeForce RTX 5090 will cost when it supplants the GeForce RTX 4090 as the flagship GPU for gaming. The rumor that refuses to die suggests the 5090 is going to introduce a big price hike—up to a $2,499 MSRP!—but...
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