Video Cards & GPUs

ASUS has enabled a new and previously unreported feature in its flagship ROG Astral line of GPUs for the GeForce RTX 50 Series, available in RTX 5080 and RTX 5090 form. As spotted by Uniko's Hardware (translated), a recent update to ASUS's impressive GPU Tweak software unlocks the ROG Astral line-up's Bosch Sensortec BMI323 Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) chip.

ASUS's flagship ROG Astral line of GPUs can automatically detect and monitor GPU sag.

If you're wondering what this chip is, it includes a gyrometer and accelerometer (the same technology used for videogame motion controls). In GPU Tweak, the chip detects GPU sag and ensures that a horizontal ROG Astral installation has been done correctly. It's even used to monitor the GPU's position and warn you when the card's angle crosses a certain degree threshold.

AMD has officially announced the Radeon RX 9070 GRE, the latest RDNA 4 GPU built using the same Navi 48 chip as the 9070 and 9070 XT. AMD has posted an official product page for the Radeon RX 9070 GRE (which stands for Great Radeon Edition) on the company's Chinese site. The listing confirms it will ship with 12GB of GDDR6 memory on a 192-bit bus. Pre-orders are now open in the region for its imminent May 8 launch.

In addition to 25% less VRAM capacity, the Radeon RX 9070 GRE features 14.3% fewer Compute Units (CUs) than the baseline Radeon RX 9070. The regional price of 4,199 RMB (around $575) is 6.7% cheaper than the Radeon RX 9070's price of 4,999 RMB (around $600). AMD has also listed performance numbers on the product page, noting that the GPU is around 6% faster than the Radeon RX 7900 GRE.

Targeting 1440p Ultra performance, the Radeon RX 9070 GRE delivered impressive results in titles like F1 24, Dragon Age: The Veilguard, Assassin's Creed: Shadows, and Horizon Forbidden West. The following benchmarks represent native or raw performance, without FSR or the new AI-powered FSR 4 upscaling.

A week ago, NVIDIA released GeForce Hotfix Display Driver 576.15, which fixed a range of bugs and issues related to the GeForce RTX 50 Series and a GPU temperature monitoring bug. This Hotfix is built on the GeForce Game Ready 576.02 WHQL for the new GeForce RTX 5060 Ti that introduced a long list of fixes for all GeForce owners, finally responding to widespread reports of driver instability.

This week, NVIDIA is back with GeForce Hotfix Display Driver 576.26, which fixes several game-specific issues for GeForce RTX 50 Series owners. From random crashes in Black Myth: Wukong to flickering backgrounds in the Resident Evil 4 Remake, there's also a fix for display flickering when enabling DisplayPort 2.1 mode with a high refresh rate on GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs.

Several GeForce RTX 50 Series owners have criticized driver stability, so it's great to see NVIDIA release three driver updates in quick succession that address and resolve reported issues. Here are the release notes for GeForce Hotfix Display Driver 576.26.

According to a new report via ITHome and the Chiphell forum, NVIDIA is already talking to its various GPU partners about an upcoming GeForce RTX 50 Series SUPER refresh, with RTX 5080 SUPER and RTX 5070 SUPER cards planned. This announcement is interesting because the report notes that these new SUPER GPUs will increase the VRAM capacity in both cards by 50%.

This would mean that a GeForce RTX 5080 SUPER 24GB and a GeForce RTX 5070 SUPER 18GB are on the way, with GDDR7 memory on a 256-bit and 192-bit memory bus, respectively. These refreshed cards might make use of 3GB GDDR7 modules, similar to the memory configuration of the GeForce RTX 5090 laptop GPU.

This isn't the first time we've heard about a GeForce RTX 5080 with 24GB of VRAM. Last month, we reported on MSI listing a GeForce RTX 5080 with 24GB as compatible with its MAG X870 Tomahawk WiFi motherboard. What was viewed as a potential misprint is now being seen as a possible first look at the GeForce RTX 5080 SUPER refresh.

NVIDIA's new RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell workstation GPU has had its gorgeous PCB leaked, showing off its 96GB of double-sided GDDR7 memory, check it out:

The new NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPU is the flagship GB202-based workstation graphics card from the company, offered in 3 different variants leading up to 96GB of GDDR7 memory. The PCB was recently leaked onto Chiphell, giving us a gander at the amount of work that goes into a ridiculously high-end GPU with 96GB of double-sided GDDR7 memory (48GB per side).

There are no components at all on the PCB pictured -- no GPU, no GDDR7 memory modules -- but GDDR7 memory modules will be placed on both sides of the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPU. Each GDDR7 module is 3GB, with 16 x 2 x 3GB = 96GB in total. NVIDIA could re-use this PCB for its RTX PRO 5000 with 48GB of GDDR7 (as it would use single-sided modules, not double-sided), while the RTX PRO 4500 uses 32GB of GDDR7 memory (2GB modules) and the GB203 GPU.

GALAX has just announced the availability and pricing of its flagship GeForce RTX 5090D graphics in OC LAB XOC, OX LAB Plus-X, and OC LAB variants, priced at up to $4100.

The new GALAX GeForce RTX 5090D HOF (Hall of Fame) series of graphics cards has been tweaked by the company's in-house OC Lab, with the finely-tuned graphics card featuring a 36-phase VRM and 70A high-current DrMOS. Inside, we've got NVIDIA's new GB202-250 GPU packing 21,760 CUDA cores, alongside 32GB of ultra-fast GDDR7 memory at 28Gbps.

GALAX is launching 3 different models today including the GeForce RTX 5090D HOF OC LAB XOC, OC LAB Plus-X, and OC LAB with the most powerful model being the OC LAB XOC model. The GALAX RTX 5090D OC LAB XOC graphics card features the world's only RTX 50 series GPU with not one, but two 12V-2x6 power connectors.

ASUS has just unveiled its monster new ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5080 DOOM Edition graphics card, celebrating the 30th anniversary of the legendary first-person shooter, and just before DOOM: The Dark Ages drops on May 15.

ASUS teamed up with DOOM publisher Bethesda for its new ROG Astral RTX 5080 DOOM Edition graphics card, which won't be sold by ASUS directly, and it will not be sold separately, as it'll be part of a bundle (which includes a mousepad, a keyback replica, and a cool DOOM-themed t-shirt).

As for the graphics card itself, it has a green and gold aesthetic with one of the stickers on the ASUS ROG Astral RTX 5080 DOOM Edition featuring the Shield Saw icon, which is a weapon from the game. ASUS classes this new card as a "BFGPU"... you know, a Big F***in' GPU.

AMD is reportedly set to reveal RDNA 4-powered Radeon RX 9000M series laptop GPUs at Computex 2025 in a couple of weeks time, led by the new flagship Radeon RX 9080M that will reportedly have 64 Compute Units of RDNA 4, with 16GB of GDDR6 memory.

In a new post on X by @All_The_Watts, we're hearing that AMD's upcoming Radeon RX 9000M series "RDNA 4" laptop GPUs will arrive in 6 variants ranging from the flagship Radeon RX 9080M with 16GB of VRAM, down to the Radeon RX 9060S with 8GB of VRAM.

AMD will reportedly launch two cards based on the Navi 48 GPU with the Radeon RX 9080M with 16GB VRAM and the Radeon RX 9070M with 8GB of VRAM, while Navi 44 powers the RX 9070M XT with 12GB, RX 9070S with 8GB, RX 9060M with 8GB, and the RX 9060S with 8GB. The S variants are low-power models, similar to how NVIDIA does it with its Max-Q laptop GPU variants.

NVIDIA has supposedly set a launch date for the RTX 5060 vanilla version, and the GPU is apparently going to debut on May 19.

That's according to VideoCardz, which tapped its sources to discover that this is the intended release timeframe which is being communicated by NVIDIA to its third-party graphics card making partners.

If this speculation is correct, it means that the RTX 5060 is only just over three weeks away.

Colorful's latest flagship GPU, the new COLORFUL iGame GeForce RTX 5080 Vulcan W, incorporates a four-fan cooling system and a 5th-generation iGame Smart LCD screen into its "snow-white armor" design. It marks the second four-fan GPU design this year, with the fan setup reminiscent of ASUS's new flagship Astral line-up for the GeForce RTX 50 Series.

We never expected to see quad-fan cooling, but with the new iGame GeForce RTX 5080 Vulcan W and the ASUS Astral, we'll probably start to see more of it. However, it will probably be limited to high-end GPUs like the GeForce RTX 5080, which deliver impressive 4K gaming, productivity, and AI performance.

The fourth fan on the COLORFUL iGame GeForce RTX 5080 Vulcan W is mounted on the backplate. The overall design maintains the same 3.5-slot thickness found on many high-end premium GPUs.