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After a few months of rumors, NVIDIA has finally let the GeForce RTX 5050 cat out of the bag. This card joins the rest of its RTX 5000 brethren as the budget element in the lineup -- a much-needed shot in the arm for the gaming PC market, given the fairly apocalyptical state of the mid- and high-end GPU...
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NVIDIA has yet to announce when it will add a more affordable GeForce RTX 5050 to its Blackwell lineup, but numerous leaks and rumors suggest it's coming this summer. Exactly when is still a mystery, though multiple prominent leakers on X are in agreement that we'll see the budget gaming card launch earlier than...
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The biggest challenges current facing PC enthusiasts are finding and affording the latest-generation (and even some previous generation) GPUs, especially from NVIDIA. One such GPU, the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti, released earlier this year with an MSRP of $749 in the US, but that has been a tough number to find due to...
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Might we interest you in the quiet, dulcet whoosh of a custom-built graphics card with a whisper-quiet fan/heatsink combo? That's exactly what the Japanese builders at Sycom have just announced -- a trio of RTX 50-series cards bedazzled with Noctua fans.
Sycom is not well known here in the west, but over in Japan...
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If you're a PC gaming enthusiast and a fan of NVIDIA's GeForce GPUs, chances are you've dealt with hard-to-find items in the past. Even GPUs such as the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti were sparse during the first few months, which was dwarfed by the frenzy of the GPU shortages later on around 2021. The GeForce RTX 5090 is its...
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We may never truly know just how close NVIDIA came to actually releasing a GeForce RTX 3080 Ti with 20GB of GDDR6X memory (versus the actual configuration that we reviewed), but there is new evidence to suggest it was at least a consideration. Over on eBay, a seller sold an alleged GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Founders Edition...
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There is a bit of mystery and intrigue surrounding NVIDIA's upcoming GeForce RTX 5050 GPU, and a handful of early retail listings (as well as a leak by Acer) of gaming laptops outfitted with the mobile variant either shed light on the situation, or add to the intrigue. How so? The memory configuration is not the same...
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As of this moment, NVIDIA's stack of desktop graphics cards for gamers based on Blackwell stands six models high, or seven models if you count the 16GB and 8GB variants of the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti separately. However you want to audit the lineup, you can add one more to the mix, as rumors are swirling of a GeForce RTX...
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Jensen Huang, the head honcho at NVIDIA, poured on the praise for Nintendo's soon-to-be-released Switch 2 console in a video posted to YouTube, saying it signals the beginning of a "bold new chapter" in gaming. A big part of that claim lies with the custom silicon inside, which NVIDIA designed, just as it did with the...
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NVIDIA has released yet another out-of-band GeForce hotfix driver to resolve persistent crashing issues in a handful of games. Curiously, one of those games is Dune: Awakening (as pictured above), which doesn't actually release to the public at large for another six days. Even the 'Advanced Access' period for those...
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This story is a bit odd but potentially huge, so sit up and pay attention to this one carefully. You may have read previously about NVIDIA's Project DIGITS, which was formally renamed to DGX Spark back in March at GTC. It's a tiny mini-PC that sports a chip known as GB10, which integrates "a high-performance 20-core...
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It might be time to put down those pitchforks, PC gamers. A critical update, Windows 11 KB5058499, is finally bringing much-needed stability to systems running Windows 11 24H2, addressing a range of frustrating performance issues that plagued users since its release. Contrary to popular speculation, it turns out that these problems were NOT
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Valve's Steam Desk console just became an even more formidable handheld, and it's thanks to NVIDIA. No, there's not an upgraded model with a discrete GeForce GPU tucked inside. However, there is finally a native GeForce NOW app for the Steam Deck (just as promised at CES), which in some respects is the next best...
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NVIDIA continues to reap the benefits of skyrocketing demand for its data center solutions, and it also achieved record first quarter revenue from its gaming division. Combined with mostly steady performance from its other segments, the AI chip juggernaut reported $44.1 billion in revenue for its first quarter of...
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This year's Computex event in Taipei ended up being an especially busy one with lots of new product announcements (like the GeForce RTX 5060), and a fair amount of product showcases to boot. Falling into the latter category, MSI shared some photos of a visit by NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang to its booth during the event...
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In the words of Queen, Another One Bites The Dust. There's a user report of one more GeForce RTX 5090 power cable suffering a nasty case of heatstroke, this time around an MSI yelllow-tipped connector.
The original report came from Reddit user VersauteGurke, who's running a chonky MSI GeForce RTX 5090 in his...
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NVIDIA is planning to ship a cut-down version of its RTX Pro 6000 server-class graphics card with key specification downgrades to China, in order to sidestep U.S.-imposed artificial intelligence (AI) chip export restrictions, according to multiple sources who spoke with Reuters on the matter. It's essentially the same...
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Heads up, if you own a GeForce RTX 5060 series graphics card, there is a new firmware update available to "ensure compatibility with certain motherboard SBIOSes." Note that this is not something you're bound to come across through the NVIDIA App, which can automatically check for and fetch updated GPU driver packages...
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NVIDIA has been heavily impacted by US export control restrictions, which are part of the measures aimed at limiting China's access to key AI technologies and innovation designed here in the US. This has not gone down well with Jensen Huang, NVIDIA's CEO, who has described the export control policy as a complete...
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 8GB: MSRP $299 The mainstream GeForce RTX 5060 brings NVIDIA's latest Blackwell GPU architecture down to a $300 price point and targets mainstream 1080p gamers, but DLSS4 with multi-frame generation is a must to achieve peak performance. Blackwell Architecture Power Efficient Smaller Form Factors Cool And Quiet Tons...
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Foxconn is teaming up with NVIDIA to deploy what the two are calling an "AI factory supercomputer" in Taiwan, in cooperation with the Taiwan government. Announced at Computex, Foxconn subsidiary Big Innovation Company will collaborate with NVIDIA as an official NVIDIA Cloud Partner to provide the the AI...
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In a continued arms race with LG for living room supremacy, Samsung is rolling out NVIDIA G-SYNC support to its 2025 lineup of OLED televisions, starting with its flagship S95F. These TVs are already AMD FreeSync Premium Pro certified, so the addition of G-SYNC paves the way for smooth gaming on a wider selection of...
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