Video Cards & GPUs

When NVIDIA announced the new GeForce RTX 50 Series and RTX Blackwell architecture earlier this year, the company focused heavily on the new architecture's AI capabilities and how new 'neural shaders' and AI rendering tools will drive the next generation of real-time graphics.

One of the latest technologies the company introduced is called RTX Neural Texture Compression, which sees a shift away from block-compressed textures to neurally compressed textures, saving up to 7X the VRAM. In the age of 4K gaming, where high-quality textures sit in VRAM, properly implementing this technology will dramatically reduce the VRAM requirement for running games at 1440p or 4K using high-quality textures.

Neural texture compression is a reality in DirectX 12 thanks to a recent update introducing Cooperative Vectors for rendering. Intel also leverages this technology for neural texture compression, as seen in its walking T-Rex demonstration. YouTube channel Compusemble has put together a video of Intel and NVIDIA's AI-powered texture compression demos in action, and the results are impressive.

AMD's new AI-powered FSR 4 update dramatically improves the upscaler's image quality, with results that are finally on par with or in the same league as NVIDIA DLSS. The new FSR 4 technology is exclusive to AMD's new RDNA 4-powered Radeon RX 9000 Series, as the AI model requires more powerful hardware that supports FP8 (8-bit floating point) technology.

This means that older Radeon GPUs, like the previous-gen flagship, the Radeon RX 7900 XTX, are not supported by the current version of FSR 4, with those GPUs limited to the inferior FSR 3.1. Well, officially, as Reddit user Virtual-Cobbler-9930 has managed to get FSR 4 running on the Radeon RX 7900 XTX in several games.

The method they used included a combination of FP16 emulation, a Linux operating system, and a Proton layer with an FSR 4 patch to run Windows apps and games. The result? FSR 4's impressive image quality is present on a Radeon RX 7900 XTX, but games run significantly slower compared to running the game with FSR 3.

ASUS has just launched its latest QD-OLED ROG Swift gaming monitor, with the introduction of the new ROG Swift OLED PG32UCDMR, an iteration of its ROG Swift OLED PG32UCDMR, but this time with AI technology and DisplayPort 2.1a UHBR20.

The new ASUS ROG Swift OLED PG32UCDMR gaming monitor features the same 32-inch 4K 240Hz QD-OLED panel, but unlike the ROG Swift OLED PG32UCDM, the new PG32UCDMR (note the "R" there) features DisplayPort 2.1a UHBR20, where as the non-R model relied on DisplayPort 1.4 which only packs 32.4Gbps of bandwidth. The new PG32UCDMR features DP2.1a UHBR20 which rocks and rolls with the full 80Gbps of bandwidth, capable of offering uncompressed visuals at higher resolutions and refresh rates.

DisplayPort 2.1a UHBR20 features 20Gbps of bandwidth per lane, with four lanes offering a huge 80Gbps of bandwidth. This new bandwidth enables not just 4K @ 240Hz with HDR and 10-bit color depth, but also offers 8K @ 60Hz with dual 4K @ 144Hz modes.

NVIDIA is reportedly working on another custom GPU for the Chinese markets, with rumors pointing to a GeForce RTX 5090DD -- replacing the RTX 5090D which is under a "full sales ban" in the country.

In a new post on X by leaker @MEGAsizeGPU we're hearing that NVIDIA is preparing a GeForce RTX 5090DD with the same GPU core count with 21760 CUDA cores and the tweaked GB202-240-K-A1 GPU. In a follow up post, leaker @kopite7kimi noted that but the memory is scaled down to 24GB (down from 32GB on the RTX 5090) on a 384-bit memory bus clocked at 28Gbps and the same 575W TDP but the leaker teases "and there's a surprise".

NVIDIA launched its cut-down GeForce RTX 5090 back in January 2025, tweaked to meet US export controls, but its AI TOPs power was sliced down, but the GPU retained its same GB202 GPU with 21760 CUDA cores and 32GB of GDDR7 memory. This new RTX 5090DD has the VRAM cut down from 32GB to 24GB, a big difference, but retains all of its gaming power.

GeForce Game Ready Driver 576.80 is here, adding day one support for Remedy's new co-op shooter set in the Control universe, FBC: Firebreak. It also adds support for DOOM: The Dark Ages' path tracing or full ray-tracing update, which is set to launch tomorrow on PC, June 18.

Remedy's FBC: Firebreak uses the same technology that powered Alan Wake 2. It's launching with full path tracing on day one with support for DLSS 4, including DLSS Ray Reconstruction and Multi Frame Generation. With path tracing enabled, the game delivers stunning cinematic reflections, shadows, ambient occlusion, and more, adding a new level of immersion and detail to the game's Federal Bureau of Control setting.

With the 'High' Full 'Ray Tracing setting enabled in FBC: Firebreak, NVIDIA's benchmarks show that you'll want a GeForce RTX 5070 Ti or higher to experience 200+ FPS performance with DLSS 4 and Multi Frame Generation. Entry-level path tracing on mainstream GeForce RTX 5060 is available at 1080p.

ASUS has just announced its new ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5080 Dhahab CORE OC Edition graphics card, ready to rizz up your rig... if you live in the Middle East, or buy it at some utterly ridiculous price on eBay. Check it out:

The new ASUS ROG Astral RTX 5080 Dhahab CORE OC Edition graphics card includes a factory overclock on its GPU, with speeds of up to 2760MHz (and I'm sure a little more through manual overclocking) as well as the usual 16GB GDDR7 memory found on the RTX 5080.

ASUS really does go all-out with its Dhahab Edition graphics cards, with the ROG Astral RTX 5080 Dhahab CORE OC Edition evoking the image of a gold brick, with the card radiating premium, premium, premium on every edge and crevace of the card. It looks like a stunner, with skyscraper imagry that emphasizes the ROG Astral RTX 5080 Dhahab CORE OC Edition "towering innovation".

The transition to the newer 16-pin power connector standard for the GeForce RTX 40 Series and GeForce RTX 50 Series has been rocky. From several cases of cables and connectors melting due to overheating, we've seen a cable and connector redesign, new safety measures implemented, and more. And yet, the problem hasn't gone away, with reports (albeit fewer) of cables melting on high-powered GeForce RTX GPUs still popping up.

With that, we've reached a point where anyone spending upwards of $1,000 or more on a graphics card for gaming will probably have some reservations or worry about a potential failure or issue related to power and the 16-pin power connector.

GALAX, the maker of the popular Hall of Fame (HOF) series built for overclocking, is taking an interesting approach to the 16-pin power connector issue for its GALAX GeForce RTX 5070 Ti HOF Gaming and GALAX GeForce RTX 5080 HOF Gaming cards. It uses the RGB lighting as a warning system.

The US Navy Exchange store has a bunch of higher-end NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 series GPUs at MSRP, with the flagship NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition priced at $1900 (after a bunch of store and credit card promotions applied).

In a new post by a Redditor who noticed the RTX 50 series GPUs priced at MSRP, the NEX store (US Navy Exchange) explains that "You Serve, You Save" and is for active and retired military families, offering RTX 50 series cards on the cheap (well, cheaper than some retailers at least). Each branch of the US armed forces has their own respective store, too.

Redditor "Accomplished-Feed123" noticed some "largeish brown boxes" but didn't know what was inside... soon enough noticing "several 5070s, 5080s, and one single 5090". The Redditor noted "all were priced at MSRP (550, 999, and 1999, respectively)" adding that it was hard to resist, so they "said YOLO and picked up the 5090".

A rare engineering sample of a GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Founders Edition GPU with 20GB of VRAM was recently sold on eBay for $1,999.99. This is one of those big "what if" releases for NVIDIA, as the GeForce RTX 4080 Ti was a mid-generation launch designed to offer GeForce RTX 3090 gaming performance at a more affordable price point.

Ahead of the card's debut, several reports and rumors of GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 20GB graphics cards from companies like GIGABYTE and ASUS made their way to specific markets like Russia. There was also the case of an MSI SUPRIM X variant of the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 20GB that went up for sale in Australia in 2023.

The sale of this Founders Edition model with 20GB of GDDR6X memory adds weight to the idea that NVIDIA changed the memory configuration of this graphics card at the eleventh hour. And there are, in fact, a number of these rare GPUs out in the wild.

Although NVIDIA hasn't formally announced a new budget desktop gaming GPU, several sources point to the company launching the GeForce RTX 5050 in July. The company's 50-Class GPUs are considered entry-level, with the RTX 5050 set to be built using the GB207-300 chip with 2560 CUDA Cores, which is 33% fewer than the RTX 5060's and 16% fewer than the RTX 4060's CUDA Core count.

As we learned in prior leaks on the upcoming RTX 5050, the GPU will be the first graphics card in the GeForce RTX 50 Series line-up to not feature fast GDDR7 memory. Instead, its memory configuration will include 8GB of GDDR6. However, according to a new post by MEGAsizeGPU over social media, the GDDR6 in the GeForce RTX 5050 will comprise 20 Gbps memory modules.

This is the same faster GDDR6 memory found in AMD's Radeon RX 9000 Series, which means it will be quicker than the 8GB of VRAM found in the GeForce RTX 4060.

A user has been scammed with not one, not two, but four different GeForce RTX 4090 graphics cards, with fake AD102 GPU labels being laser-engraved onto RTX 3090 and RTX 3080 graphics cards, a new scam exposed by a Japanese technician on YouTube. Check it out:

The technician tore apart some faulty GeForce RTX 4090 graphics cards that a customer send to him, with none of them working, only to discover that three of them were modded RTX 3090 and RTX 3080 graphics cards, which were picked up from seeing changes to the substrate.

Most users wouldn't be able to discover this on their own without completely tearing apart their expensive -- what they thought to be RTX 4090 graphics card -- but once they were torn down, the repairer noticed that one of fake RTX 4090 cards had a protruding capacitor in the top right, which would normally be seen on an RTX 30 series GPU. There's also a small QR code in the bottom left, which is a little higher than its usual location on the GPU.

You might not have heard about Sycom, but they're a Japanese system integrator that works on weird and wonderful things... like its new GeForce RTX 50 Silent Master graphics cards. Check it out:

Sycom released custom versions of NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 40 series last year with the RTX 4080 SUPER and RTX 4070 Ti Silent Master graphics cards cooled by Noctua fans, and now the Japanese company is back with its new GeForce RTX 50 Silent Master series, cooled by Noctua fans.

The GeForce RTX 50 series GPUs have those iconic brown-and-beige Noctua fans, high-performance fans that are also ultra-quiet, with Sycom looking like they're cooking up new custom GeForce RTX 5070 and RTX 5060 series graphics cards cooled by Noctua fans. There's only a single 8-pin PCIe power connector on the smaller card, and a single 16-pin power connector on the bigger GPU.

Matrox, an early competitor to NVIDIA, has unveiled a new dual-GPU graphics card that has support for up to four 8K displays.

Matrix was a major graphics card competitor in the 1990s alongside NVIDIA, ATI, and 3dfx, with the company earning its stars and stripes for its exceptional 2D image quality and dual-head support before it became a standard. However, Matrox decided to exit the mainstream gaming GPU market as it fell behind 3D acceleration performance compared to NVIDIA and ATI, resulting in the company pursuing work in fields such as video capture, video editing hardware, and multi-display solutions, which it has now carved out a niche in.

For example, Matrox graphics cards are commonly used to power major displays, such as the Sphere in Las Vegas, an extremely large music and entertainment venue that consists. More specifically, while NVIDIA RTX A6000 GPUs handle the rendering for the Sphere's massive LED displays, which consist of an interior 160,000-square-foot wraparound with a 16K resolution, and an exterior 580,000-square-foot display, Matrox graphics cards provide the backbone for the video signal routing and control.

AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT graphics cards ship with 16GB of GDDR6 memory made by either Samsung or SK hynix, but you might want to check which VRAM manufacturer has its GDDR6 inside, as Samsung GDDR6-powered RX 9070 XT cards are slightly slower than those using GDDR6 memory made by SK hynix.

In a new test by hardware channel 51972 on Bilibili, which ran a full suite of tests on virtually every single Radeon RX 9070 XT graphics card that's available in China -- an entire 22 different RX 9070 XT cards -- each of the RX 9070 XT cards powered by Samsung GDDR6 memory were around 1-2% slower in 3DMark's Speed Way benchmark run, than their SK hynix GDDR6-powered counterparts.

Even when using the fastest Samsung GDDR6 memory chips on the Radeon RX 9070 XT graphics cards resulted in lower scores than even the slowest SK hynix GDDR6 memory, with 51972 confirming that they corroborated these findings by testing the VRAM specifically using the Clamchowder cache benchmark tool, which showed generally improved results and lower latency on SK hynix GDDR6 memory compared to Samsung GDDR6 chips.

Intel has announced it is discontinuing its Arc Alchemist GPUs, which were launched in 2022. Their lifetime is less than three years.

According to a new Product Change Notification posted to Intel's website, the Alchemist line-up, which was the company's foray into discrete GPUs, will say goodbye to the Arc A750 and Arc A770 this year. The A750 will be discontinued first, with its death date being set for June 27, 2025, as that will be the last time the product is ordered. The last shipment date for the Arc A770 will be on September 26, 2025. The Arc A770 will be discontinued on the 18th of November, and its last shipment is scheduled for May 20, 2026.

What does this mean? Add In Board (AIB) partners will only have a few months to place an order on the A770, but can sell the card for the first half of 2026. Intel's discrete GPUs aren't the only models being discontinued, with multiple mobile Arc Alchemist GPUs also being on the chopping block. According to another Product Change Notification the following mobile Arc Alchemist GPUs are now discontinued: A530M, A350M, A730M, A770M, A570M, and A370M.

Still don't think Intel's got a higher-end Battlemage GPU incoming? It appears that Team Blue just dropped a weighty hint that such a graphics card is indeed in the works.

VideoCardz was on-the-ball enough to spot that Intel has updated some IDs in the Mesa drivers which previously read 'Intel Graphics,' but they now refer to a BGM-G31 product.

So, this is the long-rumored G31 GPU, and with four of the IDs changed, this suggests Intel might be preparing four different Battlemage graphics cards which use this chip as their engine.

DOOM: The Dark Ages, the third game in id Software's modern Doom reimagining, is out now for PC and consoles. It delivers frantic action with incredible visuals powered by the latest id Tech engine. The game, which saw the team at id work closely with NVIDIA to implement cutting-edge ray-tracing effects and full support for the latest DLSS 4 technology, has also been in the spotlight for all things GeForce RTX in recent months.

And with that, we've seen several custom GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs with designs and mods inspired by DOOM: The Dark Ages, including some from NVIDIA. The latest comes from PALIT, which sees it create a new custom GeForce RTX 5080 GamingPro graphics card using the company's impressive PALIT MAKER modding tools, where you can download 3D Files to develop custom GPU covers.

Unlike ASUS's stunning ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5080 DOOM Edition GPU we saw at Computex 2025, this one from PALIT has a very cool DIY modder feel. With 3D printing, you have a large DOOM logo and even the Slayer's Flail melee weapon on the backplate alongside the new Shield-saw.

AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 25.6.2 is a new optional driver update for Radeon owners that adds support for two new games, the sci-fi survival action of The Alters and Remedy's FBC: Firebreak, which is the co-op shooter set in the Control universe. This driver is also great for RDNA 4 owners with a Radeon RX 9000 Series GPU, adding FSR 4 support to four more games.

A list that includes The Alters, Delta Force, Dragonkin: The Banished, and RoadCraft. FSR 4, exclusive to RDNA 4 GPUs, is AMD's AI-powered upgrade to its FidelityFX Super Resolution upscaling technology. As seen in our reviews of Radeon RX 9070 Series and Radeon RX 9060 XT GPUs (check them out here), it dramatically improves image quality. It brings FSR technology into the same realm as NVIDIA's popular DLSS.

AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 25.6.2 is a notable release as it also fixes some game-specific issues with the new Radeon RX 9060 XT and Radeon RX 9070 Series. From Marvel's Spider-Man 2 to The Last of Us Part I, here are the full Release Notes for the latest Radeon driver update.

The ROG ASTRAL Charity Auction is entering its final day, and the highest bid on the gold-plated ROG ASTRAL GeForce RTX 5090 Dhahab Edition GPU is $20,180 USD. The limited-edition flagship GPU is signed by NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, and the money raised will go to the Tzu Chi USD humanitarian aid foundation, which reaches 133 countries and regions.

Open to US and Canadian residents, the charity auction offers one of the most opulent and extravagant GPUs ever created. ASUS's 'Dhahab Edition' GeForce RTX 5090 was created to celebrate the rapid technological evolution of the Middle East, blending a sand and skyline motif with the ROG ASTRAL's quad-fan design (a first for the company), vapor chamber cooling, enhanced power delivery, and flagship overclocked performance.

Some tasteful calligraphy also spells out "strength, courage, and unity" in Arabic. Of course, the big thing here is that this is a GPU made with literal gold, 6.5 grams of 24K gold. So even though the current highest bid has crossed the $20,000 barrier, it makes sense when you consider how rare and extravagant the GPU is.

ASUS released one of the most exotic graphics cards earlier this year with its ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 Dhahab Edition, with the card made exclusively for the Middle Eastern market seeing scalpers make some profits by listing the card for upwards of $22,900.

Since you cannot find the ASUS ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 Dhahab OC Edition anywhere but the Middle East, getting your hands on one requires one of two things: you have the cash for the card, and live in the Middle East, or someone else buys it, and you pay whatever premium they're demanding (if you seek this card so much).

It seems like the re-sellers have someone in the supply chain of China, which gave them the path to getting their hands on the stock that was destined for the Middle East. Now we've got eBay sellers listing the ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 Dhahab OC Edition for $8500, $14,998, and a whopping $22,990... far above the $6806 MSRP.