Video Cards & GPUs News - Page 1

ASRock has just unveiled its latest passively-cooled graphics cards, with the new ASRock Radeon RX 7900 XTX Passive 24GB and RX 7900 XT Passive 20GB graphics cards.

The new ASRock Radeon RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XT Passive series graphics cards have been designed for multi-card parallel computing for better performance. ASRock uses a vapor chamber heatsink, efficient aluminum cooling devices, and V-shaped cutting.

Interstingly, ASRock has used a single horizontal 12V-2x6 power connector, so that you can install multiple ASRock Radeon RX 7900 Passive series graphics cards without as many cables running to (multiple) graphics cards.

Yes, there is another. According to sources, NVIDIA isn't entirely done with the GeForce RTX 30 Series, and the company plans to release a new version of the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop GPU. What makes this interesting is that this will be an Ampere 8nm generation GPU built with current-gen Ada Lovelace architecture and advanced node technology.

There is a GeForce RTX 4050 in the laptop space (we've yet to see one for the desktop graphics card market), so there's a valid reason for NVIDIA to revamp the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop GPU with Ada tech - as it would lead to a more efficient and compact GPU.

The news of this new GeForce RTX 3050 arrives via The PC ID Repository, which lists a new entry in the form of the AD106M[GeForce RTX 3050 A Laptop GPU]. Per NVIDIA's GPU naming, AD refers to Ada Lovelace architecture. The existing GeForce RTX 3050 uses the Ampere-based GA107 chip.

NVIDIA's next-generation GeForce RTX 50 series "Blackwell" gaming GPUs are not too far away now, with the flagship GeForce RTX 5090 being reportedly up to 48% faster than the current-gen gaming GPU champ, the RTX 4090.

We knew that NVIDIA would be shooting high with performance with the new GeForce RTX 5090, with its new process node, upgraded Blackwell architecture, next-gen GDDR7 memory, when compared to the RTX 4090. NVIDIA would've been fine launching the RTX 4080 on its own at the time, which kept up and beat AMD's flagship RDNA 3-based Radeon RX 7900 XTX.

But they didn't, NVIDIA instead unleashed the beefier GeForce RTX 4090 with more VRAM (24GB versus 16GB) and even more gaming performance. The same goes with the RTX 5090, which is reportedly a monstrous 48% faster than the RTX 4090 according to 'RTX 50 performance targets' from NVIDIA in leaks by RedTechGaming.

NVIDIA has reportedly been working on a new Blackwell-based TITAN AI graphics card, which would beat the ultra-enthusiast GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card.

In a new post by RedGamingTech, we're told that NVIDIA has been working on a new TITAN graphics card, which would be dubbed "TITAN AI." It would be around 63% faster than the RTX 4090 and around 10% faster than the next-gen RTX 5090, too.

After months of back-and-forth between Q4 2024 and a potential 2025 release for the next-gen Blackwell-powered GeForce RTX 50 Series from NVIDIA, it looks like the latter is going to be the case. Industry insider and leaker @kopite7kimi has taken to X to say they think we won't see the GeForce RTX 50 Series and the new RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 flagship combo until CES 2025.

After reports that AMD was going hold off until CES 2025 before announcing its plans for its next-generation Radeon RX 8000 Series line-up powered by RDNA 4, this news that NVIDIA could also be eyeing a January 2025 reveal in Las Vegas would make for quite the GPU showdown in the desert.

Albeit one where AMD's new flagship will be a mid-range refresh versus NVIDIA's next-gen RTX 4090 killer. For those of us looking forward to picking up a GeForce RTX 5090 this holiday season, this delay is disappointing.

Igor Wallossek from Igor's Lab has run an extensive test on a range of GeForce RTX 40 Series graphics cards from NVIDIA partners like ASUS, Manli, PNY, and Palit and concluded that most are a 'ticking time bomb' waiting to overheat and eventually fail because of cheap thermal paste. It's an explosive report that could have a massive impact on the current GPU market.

The investigation and report are now live (with video) at Igor's Lab. The conclusion is quite convincing, demonstrating how the cheap thermal paste degrades over time and that it only takes a few months to become ineffective. The report claims that this is why PC gamers with cards like the RTX 4080 Gallardo and RTX 4080 TUF Gaming are experiencing hot spot temperatures of over 100 degrees.

Igor Wallossek notes that he began investigating the issue after hearing about it from readers. After extensive testing, he found that cheap thermal paste that degrades over time is the culprit. The good news is that resolving the issue is straightforward.

ASRock has launched a pair of new Radeon GPUs as part of its new Creator Series - the ASRock Radeon RX 7900 XTX Creator 24GB and ASRock Radeon RX 7900 XT Creator 20GB graphics cards. The compact two-slot thickness and blower-fan cooling (with bonus Vapor Chamber) indicate that these are designed for "multi-card parallel computing," aka running AI workloads.

The 7900 XT and 7900 XTX are the flagship gaming RDNA 3 GPUs for AMD's Radeon RX 7000 Series. They are 4K-capable cards capable of running the latest PC games. What makes the new Creator Series from ASRock interesting is that it turns them into workstation-first cards. That, and they both come equipped with a single horizontal 12V-2x6 power connector.

The 12V-2x6 power connector is the received and updated version of the original 12V HPWR connector that debuted with the GeForce RTX 40 Series. It was created to minimize issues with cables and connectors overheating. The revised connector can be found in newer GeForce RTX 40 Series GPUs, and its introduction here is a first for a Radeon RX 7000 Series GPU.

At its most basic level, Compute Unified Architecture (CUDA) allows general-purpose processing and other tasks to run on NVIDIA GPUs with extensive language support. Since its inception, CUDA has been a game changer. It has been used to tap into the power offered by GPUs for advanced simulation, physics calculations, scientific modeling, crypto mining, and, yes, machine learning.

The latter, and the current AI boom, have been one of the main reasons NVIDIA GPUs have been the go-to for generative AI workloads - developers and researchers alike have been using the CUDA toolkit for years. Widely viewed as the industry standard, this has left GPUs from competitors like AMD looking elsewhere for its software.

That could change as a new startup called Spectral Compute has unveiled SCALE, a toolkit that allows CUDA applications to be natively compiled for AMD's RDNA GPUs. According to its creators, "SCALE does not require the CUDA program or its build system to be modified."

AMD's next-generation RDNA 4 GPU architecture is still in the ovens, but we're hearing rumors of RDNA 4's new and enhanced Ray Tracing engine for Radeon RX 8000 series graphics cards, and Sony's beefed-up PlayStation 5 Pro console.

In a new post on X, leaker "Kepler" said that some of the new RT features coming with RDNA 4 will "most if not all" be found inside of the PS5 Pro console, not just RDNA 4-powered Radeon RX 8000 series GPUs. Kepler shared some details of the ray tracing enhancements expected with RDNA 4:

AMD's new Ryzen AI 300 series "Strix Point" APUs have an upgraded integrated RDNA 3.5-based Radeon 880M GPU, which is 15% faster than the RDNA 3-based GPU inside of the Radeon 780M, according to ASUS.

The new Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 and Ryzen AI 9 365 "Strix Point" APUs have new RDNA 3.5-based integrated GPUs. The Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 APU features 16 x RDNA 3.5-based Compute Units (CUs), while the Ryzen AI 9 HX 365 features 12 x CUs.

The new Radeon 880M integrated GPU inside of the new Strix Point APUs is up to 15% faster than the Radeon 780M in gaming performance according to ASUS. ASUS is currently promoting its new Vivobook laptop, which is powered by AMD's new Ryzen AI 300 series "Strix Point" APUs, giving us our first look at what to expect from the upgraded RDNA 3.5 GPU.