Graphics Cards - Page 15

NVIDIA ended official GeForce Game Ready Driver support for its Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta architectures in October 2025, marking the end of an era (or two) for some of the most iconic PC gaming graphics cards of the 2010s. From the GeForce GTX 980 to the GeForce GTX 1080 and GeForce GTX 1060, NVIDIA finally put these GPUs to rest after a decade of support, including game optimizations for new releases.

Announced several months before official support was set to end, NVIDIA did confirm that GPUs from these older architectures would "transition to receiving quarterly security updates for the next three years (through October 2028)."

And that's what we've got with the GeForce Security Update Driver 582.28, a new security update for Maxwell, Volta, and Pascal-series GeForce GPUs. Basically, you're looking at drivers that lack game-specific support but still receive the latest security updates. NVIDIA points to its NVIDIA GPU Display Drivers - January 2026 security bulletin for details on what has been addressed.

If the RTX 5070 isn't enough for you - and it isn't for many gamers, especially with that 12GB of VRAM - you're looking at a seriously pricey GPU above that tier.

NVIDIA's RTX 5070 Ti is getting seriously pricey, which would appear to back up the idea that this graphics card is now in scarce supply.

If you recall, there were even recent rumblings on the grapevine that the RTX 5070 Ti was effectively at the end of the line, with production having been halted - rumors NVIDIA quickly clarified weren't true.

The Intel Arc B580, with its second-generation Battlemage architecture and 12GB of VRAM, is an affordable mainstream GPU that can still be purchased for around $300 in the US. Although it's a notable increase over its original $249 MSRP, with performance that beats the GeForce RTX 4060 in most titles, it's a definite option given how the current memory crisis is affecting GeForce RTX and Radeon RX pricing.

And the Intel Arc B580 is set to get a feature next month that was previously exclusive to NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 50 Series in the desktop space. Speaking with Tom's Guide, Intel has confirmed that the Arc B580 is getting Xess 3 with Multi-Frame Generation support next month. Like with DLSS, Intel's frame generation is AI-powered, and Xess 3 with Multi-Frame Generation is already available and supported by Intel's new Panther Lake processors.

Like DLSS 4's Multi Frame Generation, the XeSS version leverages AI to create and insert up to three additional frames alongside the XeSS Super Resolution frame. In supported games, this can increase the overall performance (or smoothness) from 60 FPS to 200+ FPS.

NVIDIA's FrameView is a platform-agnostic application for monitoring and recording in-game performance, with metrics ranging from frame rates and frame times to system latency and even performance per watt. With support for GeForce RTX, Radeon RX, and Intel Arc graphics cards, it's a handy tool for monitoring, capturing, and analyzing PC gaming performance.

This week, NVIDIA released FrameView 1.7, a significant update to the app that adds several welcome features while fixing several bugs. One notable update is the addition of a Customizable Overlay, which lets you display all metrics for real-time monitoring or choose from various presets.

With control over font size and backgrounds to improve readability, the big thing here is having direct access to FrameView's extensive list of recorded statistics and data. NVIDIA also notes that the update improves High Frame Rate Support, with improved accuracy and calculation for game running at 800+ FPS.

The current memory crisis is driving up prices across a wide range of PC hardware, and with no signs of slowing, it could have a far-reaching impact on consumer-facing companies. ZOTAC GAMING is a brand well-known among PC gaming enthusiasts and is widely regarded as the manufacturer of some of the best GeForce RTX graphics cards.

As the prices of its various GPUs have increased, the company's Korean office has issued a statement to its online customers in the region, apologizing for canceling its cashback rewards program and raising prices one month after its first wave of GPU price increases. The post confirms that, in addition to memory supply constraints, the supply of GeForce RTX 50 Series graphics cards will be reduced in the coming months.

Translated by @harukaze5719 on social media, ZOTAC not only says that the "current situation is extremely serious," but things have gotten to the point where the "very survival of graphics card manufacturers and distributors" could be at stake.

Intel has released its latest graphics driver which provides support for XeSS 3 with Multi-Frame Generation, bringing its upscaling box of tricks up to speed with NVIDIA's equivalent tech in DLSS 4.

As VideoCardz spotted, this is the Arc Graphics driver version 32.0.101.8425/8362 which has just arrived. It also boasts support for the new Arc B390 and B370 integrated GPUs in Intel's Panther Lake mobile chips.

Multi-Frame Generation means that XeSS frame gen can now insert up to three additional artificial frames, meaning a 3:1 ratio of real and 'fake' frames to help speed up frame rates more dramatically. Of course, it's not quite as straightforward as that, but still, it's great to have MFG on board for Arc GPUs.

It's increasingly looking like Intel's long-rumored Intel Arc B770 16GB 'Big Battlemage' desktop GPU for PC gaming is set to arrive as a workstation and AI-focused product in Q1 2026 first. According to a new report from Videocardz, Intel plans to launch the Intel Arc Pro B70 and B65 workstation graphics cards in the coming months.

Both of these cards are powered by the BMG-G31 GPU, which was previously rumored to be tied to the Intel Arc B770, and both will reportedly ship with 32GB of GDDR6 memory on a 256-bit bus for running local AI workloads. The Intel Arc Pro B70 includes the full BMG-G31 GPU chip with 32 Xe2 cores, while the Arc Pro B65 will be a cut-down model.

According to the report, Intel's partners apparently already have the BMG-G31 workstation GPUs for testing, with no sign of a gaming model. The current understanding is that the Intel Arc B770 16GB 'Big Battlemage' GPU for PC gaming is currently on hold due to the current memory crisis affecting consumer PC products.

AMD will keep its current RDNA 3.5 GPU architecture until at least 2029, with its next-gen RDNA 5 GPU cores reserved for high-end premium Halo-tier SoCs of the future like the Zen 6 + RDNA 5 combo Medusa Halo APU.

In a new post by leaker @Kepler_L2 on X, we're hearing that AMD is dividing its APU roadmap into two categories. The first will be products targeting lower end markets or markets that don't need good iGPU performance (i.e., office laptops, and also laptops using high-end dGPUs). These will continue to use RDNA 3.5 until 2029.

The second are "premium" integrated GPU products with RDNA 5, like AMD's next-gen Zen 6-based Medusa Halo APU that is expected to sport 48 CUs of RDNA 5-based GPU with RTX 5070 Ti levels of gaming performance inside of a power-sipping APU.

AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 26.1.1 is here, and the latest Radeon graphics driver release is a fairly notable one to kick off the new year. It adds support for the company's new Ryzen AI 400 Series, announced at CES 2026, and introduces a new optional AI Bundle to deliver "next-level simplicity" for "local AI setup" with a one-click solution.

AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition AI Bundle supports Radeon RX 7700-series desktop graphics cards or newer, as well as the company's Ryzen AI 300, AI 400, and AI MAX Series processors. In addition to the arrival of new AI software support, AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 26.1.1 also includes support for a pair of new games - Starsand Island and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora - From the Ashes Edition.

Plus, there's a whole list of fixes for games like Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, Enshrouded, Diablo 4, and Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. Here's a look at the Release Notes.

It just gets worse... NVIDIA has reportedly paused production on the RTX 5060, as it has reportedly "vastly overbooked AI sales" and has responded by pausing "almost all" GeForce RTX 50 series GPU production... until at least Q3 2026.

In a new video from Moore's Law is Dead, we're hearing some rather depressing -- but not that surprising -- news, that NVIDIA has just halted production of the RTX 5060, on top of the rest of the stack of its RTX 50 series chips. One of MLID's sources said that the RTX 5060 is "done for the next 6 months" and that because it has overbooked AI sales, it is pausing RTX 50 series GPU production until "at least" Q3 2026.

This source said that the RTX 5090, RTX 5070 Ti, RTX 5060 Ti 16GB, and RTX 5060 8GB will soon be "unobtanium" and that the RTX 5080, RTX 5070, and RTX 5060 Ti 8GB will trickle down into the market, with "incredibly low volume".

Intel's BMG-G31, which is the 'big gun' chip for Battlemage - often associated with rumors of an Arc B770 - is about to debut, we're told, but it'll be in a Pro graphics card, not a gaming model.

Well-known leaker Jaykihn let us know on X (as highlighted by VideoCardz) that Intel is going to launch a B70 Pro soon, and that this will be built on the G31 chip.

Jaykihn elaborated on this graphics card having 32GB of VRAM, and another leaker, Haze, chipped in to observe that we can expect a B65 Pro model to be launched as well.

We're only a couple of weeks into 2026, and the immediate future of PC gaming GPUs, specifically GeForce RTX and Radeon RX products, is looking a little shaky. After reports stated that NVIDIA was effectively canceling cards like the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti, we've since heard word that's not the case, with NVIDIA confirming that all GeForce RTX SKUs will continue to be available for purchase; however, "memory supply is constrained."

Yes, the memory crisis is very real, and the price of PC gaming GPUs has already started to increase. According to a new Benchlife report, NVIDIA has notified its partners (including ASUS, MSI, GIGABYTE, and others) that all GPUs bundled with GDDR6 and GDDR7 memory have increased in price. The report doesn't specify the new price or the percentage change, but it claims that NVIDIA's new GPU memory pricing for partners is still lower than AMD's.

This means NVIDIA's partners are now paying more for GeForce RTX GPUs, as they are sold with memory bundled, so expect retail prices for GeForce RTX 50 Series graphics cards to increase very soon.

GPU scams have always been around, but there's been a spate of recent incidents as nefarious types try to take advantage of consumers.

Two fresh scams have been flagged up, the first by VideoCardz in which the buyer of an RTX 5080 on Amazon - an ASUS Prime card - reportedly found out that the GPU wasn't a high-end Blackwell model at all.

In fact, as you can see in the above Reddit thread, the RTX 5080 box the buyer received was actually hosting an RTX 5060 Ti, with the labels switched in from the high-end GPU.

The current DRAM crisis and memory shortages are affecting all aspects of the consumer tech market, with things expected to get worse as we head into 2026. With price increases that are already here and months of rumors pointing to PC components like GPUs set to become increasingly hard to find, things took a turn for NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 50 Series last week, after it was widely reported that the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5060 Ti 16GB cards were effectively being shelved or moved into 'end-of-life' status.

The key source for this was a Hardware Unboxed report, which stated that NVIDIA partner ASUS advised that the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16GB GPU was no longer available and no longer being produced. With ASUS being one of the biggest names in GeForce RTX GPUs, no ASUS PRIME or TUF GAMING GeForce RTX 5070 Ti cards does sound like NVIDIA has cancelled these models.

Naturally, this caused immediate and widespread backlash from the PC gaming community, with NVIDIA releasing a statement that it would "continue to ship all GeForce SKUs" in 2026 - including the RTX 5070 Ti. And with that, ASUS has also released a public statement that's pretty clear.

NVIDIA has reportedly axed most of its GeForce RTX 50 series GPUs in order to focus on AI demand, with the RTX 5090, RTX 5080, RTX 5070 Ti 16GB, RTX 5060 Ti 16GB, and even its RTX 50 Laptop GPUs with more than 8GB of RAM... all gone.

In a new video from leaker Moore's Law is Dead, we're hearing that NVIDIA has cancelled most of its high-end RTX 50 series GPUs on desktop, and its high-end RTX 50 Laptop series GPUs. Last year MLID said that the RTX 5090 was entering EOL (end of life) production, but in his latest video, he said that it is "far more" of the NVIDIA lineup than the 5090 that is effectively EOL.

Any of NVIDIA's higher-end GeForce RTX 50 series GPUs with more than 12GB of VRAM -- and not just the RTX 5070 Ti 16GB or RTX 5060 Ti 16GB -- are being nixed, and it's "not just desktop GPUs" as laptop variants are being cancelled to drive more silicon profits with AI for the company.

A new report over at Videocardz sheds some new light on the Intel Arc B770 being a no-show at CES 2026. Also referred to as 'Big Battlemage,' the Intel Arc B770 is the mid-range companion to the mainstream Intel Arc B580 and B570. Powered by the BMG-G31 GPU, it reportedly features 16GB of VRAM and 32 Xe2 Cores, with performance sitting somewhere between the GeForce RTX 4070 and RTX 5070.

After the GPU's no-show at CES, with Intel focusing on its new mobile Panther Lake processors, Videocardz reached out to various Intel GPU partners to find out the status of the missing-in-action card. Intel's partners include ASRock, GUNNIR, SPARKLE, and others, and the report states that two of Intel's partners have confirmed that they have yet to receive Intel Arc B770 samples.

These GPU test boards are commonly provided to partners ahead of a launch to finalize designs and specifications. The report notes that it takes at least 6 weeks from receiving test boards to ramp up production, indicating that Intel still hasn't finalized when, or if, it will launch the Intel Arc B770.

We're only a couple of weeks into 2026, and even though we've been expecting the current memory crisis to affect GPU pricing and availability, things are already looking pretty shaky for the GeForce RTX 50 Series. In addition to the word that NVIDIA has potentially stopped production of the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti because it's one 16GB GPU too many (via Hardware Unboxed), there's some supply-based news from insider MEGAsizeGPU.

If you've read the headline, then you're already aware that it's bad news, but there is one part of the story that is "good news," sort of. According to MEGAsizeGPU, previous reports that NVIDIA had stopped supplying GDDR7 memory to its various GeForce RTX partners and was only providing GPU chips are false. At least, not yet.

Citing NVIDIA's partners as the source, the new information says that NVIDIA is still bundling and providing its partners with both the GPU and memory for the various GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs. The bad news? Well, supply "has been cut" by about 15-20%.

In a new video on how the current memory crisis is affecting GPUs built for PC gaming, tech outlet Hardware Unboxed is reporting that NVIDIA has ended production of the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16GB graphics card. Citing various GeForce partners, including ASUS, we learn that the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti has essentially reached end-of-life status - less than a year after its debut.

We reviewed our first GeForce RTX 5070 Ti back in February of 2025, praising its 1440p and 4K gaming performance and DLSS-powered path tracing capabilities. The GeForce RTX 5070 Ti is also a direct competitor to AMD's impressive Radeon RX 9070 XT, so its potential cancellation leaves a significant gap between the GeForce RTX 5070 and the more expensive GeForce RTX 5080.

The reason for the RTX 5070 Ti being shelved is fairly straightforward: it's a GPU with 16GB of VRAM, and with current price increases and GDDR7 shortages, NVIDIA is cutting back on GeForce RTX 50 Series cards with 16GB of memory. In fact, the report indicates that the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB is also on the chopping block.

AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition AI Bundle is an optional update for Radeon GPU owners that simplifies setting up local AI. Designed as an almost one-click to install feature, the AI Bundle offers AMD Radeon and Ryzen AI-powered systems the "essential tools needed to begin building and running AI workloads."

Announced at CES 2026 as part of AMD's AI announcements, the company has since taken to social media to confirm that the AI Bundle update is set to arrive on January 21, presumably as part of the latest AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition driver release for Radeon graphics cards.

With a streamlined installer that sets up local applications and models for tasks like image generation, the AI Bundle also includes new support for PyTorch on Windows, opening the door for Radeon owners to start exploring AI development locally on their PCs.

MSI's new GeForce RTX 5090 32G LIGHTNING Z, announced at CES 2026, is not only a liquid-cooled RTX 5090 built for overclocking, but with its dual 16-pin PCIe configuration and custom PCB, it ships with an impressive 1000W OC mode to make it the most powerful PC gaming graphics card we've seen to date.

Limited to 1300 units globally, the GeForce RTX 5090 LIGHTNING Z has already broken 17 world records thanks to the hidden 2500W XOC BIOS, exclusive to extreme overclockers. The GPU is also a looker with the cover including a large 8-inch display alongside a sturdy carbon fiber backplate.

On top of this, the next-gen AIO cooler includes a new pump and radiator design designed to increase air pressure and liquid flow by up to 45% and 71%, respectively. At CES, MSI told us that the new LIGHTNING was not only the most powerful gaming GPU, but it's one of the quietest and coolest cards in the company's lineup. MSI is offering one lucky fan the chance to win one of the 1300 limited edition MSI GeForce RTX 5090 32G LIGHTNING Z GPUs as part of a new Break Your Limit giveaway.