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COLORFUL has just unveiled its super-elite flagship iGame RTX 3090 KUDAN graphics card, which costs an insane $4999 and only 1000 units will be made.

The company has outfitted the beautiful new iGame RTX 3090 KUDAN graphics card with its most advanced features, with fantastic hybrid cooling that blends the worlds of air cooling and water cooling -- allowing for some excellent overclocking on the iGame RTX 3090 KUDAN graphics card. Better yet, it has a physical One-Key OC button for extremely easy overclocking.

COLORFUL has outfitted its iGame RTX 3090 KUDAN graphics card with Golden Gears and gold accents, with a huge LCD display and of course RGB lighting that tips the card over the edge in terms of its "OMG" factor.

AMD has unleashed its ultra-performance Radeon RX 6900 XT Liquid Cooled graphics card, cooled with a large AIO cooler.

The new Radeon RX 6900 XT Liquid Cooled graphics card has AMD overclocking the TBP to 330W, and the 16GB of GDDR6 memory to 18Gbps. These two tweaks provide enough performance that AMD says the new Radeon RX 6900 XT Liquid Cooled can better battle NVIDIA's flagship GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and GeForce RTX 3090 graphics cards.

The GPU itself has a game clock of up to 2250MHz, boost clock of 2435MHz -- 235MHz and 185MHz overclocked over the air-cooled version of the Radeon RX 6900 XT, respectively.

COLORFUL's new custom iGame GeForce RTX 3090 KUDAN graphics card is in the oven, and nearly ready to be taken out and the very tiny amount of them that are made will be sold.

The new COLORFUL iGame GeForce RTX 3090 KUDAN looks like an utter beast, but we know nothing about it outside of this single picture. QuazarZone forum members discovered the card, and that's the only reason it's even on any of our radars.

The picture was black, but once adjusted (adjusted picture above, the original image below) we can see a gigantic GeForce RTX 3090 graphics card. It is definitely a triple-slot card, but it could be even thicker and could be a 3.5- or even 4-slot GPU.

GDDR memory prices are about to get more expensive, with TrendForce expecting an 8-13% increase in GDDR memory prices later this year -- which will hurt GPU and console prices even more.

Graphics DRAM (GDDR) prices increasing will hurt GDDR6 and GDDR6X-based products, with GDDR6 inside of all of AMD's new RDNA 2-based products: the Radeon RX 6000 series (Radeon RX 6700 through to the Radeon RX 6900 XT all use GDDR6 memory) as well as the next-gen consoles in Microsoft's Xbox Series X/S and Sony PlayStation 5 consoles.

On the PC side of things, NVIDIA uses the ultra-fast GDDR6X memory in half of its new Ampere-based GeForce RTX 30 series GPUs: the newly-released GeForce RTX 3070 Ti and GeForce RTX 3080 Ti graphics cards both use GDDR6X memory -- so too do the GeForce RTX 3080 and GeForce RTX 3090 graphics cards.

COLORFUL has teamed with NVIDIA on the first GPU History Museum, which houses graphics cards from the early 1980s through to today.

The new GPU History Museum is now open in China, and will showcase the very start of VGA cards (Video Graphics Array) through to the first GPU (the NVIDIA GeForce 256) and into the world of the GPUs of today. It all started in the early 1980s but things really went to the next level when 3Dfx (back when the 'D' was capitalized before it changed to 3dfx) came onto the scene in the mid-1990s.

NVIDIA came onto the scene with its NV1 graphics chip in 1995, and then delivered the world's first GPU -- the GeForce 256. It dropped with so much impact that I changed my gamer handle to 'anthony256' which you can find me on Twitter, or any game -- but there are some real gems in the GPU History Museum.

GAINWARD has just revealed some new custom GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and GeForce RTX 3070 Ti graphics cards, with a new pink-themed card.

The new GAINWARD GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Pink Star graphics card is exactly what you think it is: a new custom RTX 3070 Ti with a pink/gold theme that you can see in the pics above, and many more below. There's no OC branding here, with the GPU clocked at 1800MHz GPU boost, with the TDP boosting up from 290W to 310W on the GAINWARD RTX 3070 Ti Star series cards.

Like every other GeForce RTX 3070 Ti graphics card, GAINWARD's new GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Pink Star graphics cards have 6144 CUDA cores and 8GB of GDDR6X memory. The pink theme looks great, and I'm sure it'll have its fans -- the pink and gold theme will have a place somewhere in some girl-gamer PC.

SK hynix has teased its next-generation memory, with some early performance numbers teasing some huge speeds. JEDEC still needs to formalize the HBM3 standard, which shouldn't be too far away now.

Back to SK hynix, which has its next-gen HBM3 memory under development and it is already hitting 665GB/sec with 5.2Gbps I/O speeds. This means that in its current form, HBM3 memory has 44.6% more bandwidth and 44.4% more I/O speed over the still-fast HBM2e standard.

SK hynix explained: "SK hynix leads the HBM market with ambitions for even faster HBM solutions: Our HBM3, under development, will be capable of processing more than 665GB of data per second at 5.2Gbps in I/O speed. A table illustrating how SK hynix's product specifications evolve between HBM2E and HBM3".

I bet you didn't think you'd be reading this right now, but NVIDIA has had discussions with Intel about the CPU giant making NVIDIA GPUs in the future if the situation arose.

In his latest video, Tom from Moore's Law is Dead has teased that NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang called Intel's new CEO Pat Gelsinger, and the two giants talked about NVIDIA making future GPUs on Intel's fabs which is just gigantic news on its own.

Tom said: "I didn't just put those last few musings for extra hype... people need to understand that NVIDIA, Intel, they're not going to roll over and let TSMC combine with AMD and crush everyone or TSMC combine with Apple and crush everyone".

I'm sure there will be thousands of people that will read this and be angry that they haven't been able to buy a new AMD Radeon RX 6000 series or NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3000 series graphics card... yet sales are still sky-high in Q1 2021.

John Peddie Research has some numbers to share, with 119 million graphics cards shipped in Q1 2021 -- a 39% increase over Q1 2020. This is pretty damn astonishing, for a few reasons: there is a gigantic everything shortage right now -- multiple parts to build these graphics cards are super hard to find right now.

Not only that, but the market is insane when it comes to pricing right now -- with NVIDIA pricing its just-launched GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Founders Edition at $1199... yet the RTX 3080 Ti can be found for $2500+ in some markets. Second-hand prices are just as insane right now, the entire market is a Bizarro world... yet GPU sales are record high.

GALAX has just unveiled its super-ridiculous flagship GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Hall of Fame OC Lab Edition graphics card, designed with enthusiasts, collectors, and extreme overclocking users in mind.

The new GALAX GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Hall of Fame (HOF) is virtually identical to the GeForce RTX 3090 HOF OC Lab Edition graphics card -- while there are many different HOF models, the flagship RTX 3080 Ti HOF OC Lab Edition does lack one big thing that the RTX 3090 HOF OC Lab Edition had: its big LCD display.

GALAX has dropped the HOF Panel III LCD display from the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti HOF OC Lab Edition graphics card, something that really stood out from the crowd (and inside of a gaming PC) on the GeForce RTX 3090 HOF.

AMD will be launching two gigantic architectures in 2022: the new Zen 4 architecture for next-gen CPUs as well as the RDNA 3 architecture for next-gen GPUs in 2022, 2023, and beyond.

In a new tweet, leaker Broley_X1 has said that RDNA 3 and Zen 4 will be "launched around the same time" and that the next-gen RDNA 3 architecture will "tape out later this year". AMD's next-gen Zen 4 architecture is based on the 5nm process node over at TSMC, and will arrive on the new AM5 socket with DDR5 and PCIe 5.0 support.

But what's interesting here is that AMD would be launching the Zen 4 + RDNA 3 architectures together, which would make for a huge end of 2022 fight against Intel and NVIDIA. Intel will have its new Alder Lake CPU platform out this year, rocking next-gen DDR5 and PCIe 5.0 technologies while AMD will be a while away yet.

We heard about the water-cooled Radeon RX 6900 XTX graphics card in April 2021 just a couple of months ago now, but it seems it's more real than we thought.

AMD's new Radeon RX 6900 XTX reference graphics card, or the Radeon RX 6900 XT LC, or whatever the hell it ends up being released as (in whatever limited form) has been spotted in China inside of a custom pre-built gaming PC.

The custom gaming PC packs an AMD Ryzen 9 5950X processor, a mid-range ASUS ROG Strix B550-A motherboard, and Deepcool's Castle 240 V2 AIO liquid cooling. On top of all of that we have the water-cooled RDNA 2-based Radeon RX 6900 XT LC graphics card.

NVIDIA has uploaded a new FFA creative map to Fortnite, with a gigantic building-sized GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Founders Edition for you to ogle at in all its ray-traced glory. Check it out:

The company kicked off the 59-second video reminding us that Fortnite with RTX is available now, and then as the camera is pulling back it reveals a skyscraper-sized NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Founders Edition graphics card. It's absolutely mammoth, with NVIDIA welcoming us to "TiTANIUM CITY"... note the lowercase 'i' there.

There's nothing else going on here apart from a gigantic GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Founders Edition graphics card being placed into a FFA creative map made by NVIDIA (with Map Code: 1866-3511-4211) into Fortnite -- there's no giveaway, nothing. Kinda random, with NVIDIA celebrating the launch of the RTX 3080 Ti with this Fortnite FFA creative map.

NVIDIA announced its new GeForce RTX 3080 Ti graphics card, with its GA102 GPU and 12GB of GDDR6X memory costing $1199 -- and then there's the flood of custom AIB cards.

COLORFUL announced its new iGame GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Vulcan OC-V graphics card, which as always is individual and stands out from the crowd with the inclusion of its LCD display. The LCD display on the iGame GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Vulcan OC-V graphics card can be tweaked 90 degrees, so if you've got the card vertically mounted in your gaming PC then you'll still see the LCD display.

The new COLORFUL iGame GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Vulcan OC-V has a triple-fan cooler with a 13-blade cooling fan design, and COLORFUL's in-house iGame Vacuum Copper Plated Technics which provide "superb cooling to achieve high and stable overclocks".

MSI is celebrating its 35th birthday with the announcement of its most limited edition graphics card ever, and with the GPU shortages, probably the most limited edition graphics card (literally) ever.

The new MSI GeForce RTX 3090 SUPRIM 35th Anniversary Limited Edition is just simply beautiful, with the company deploying a fully custom design of its TRI FROZR 2S cooling solution, with a triple-fan cooling system and 3 x 8-pin PCIe power connectors giving the card at least 350W of power.

We don't know the GPU boost and GDDR6X overclocks (if there are any) on the MSI GeForce RTX 3090 SUPRIM 35th Anniversary Limited Edition graphics card, but I'm sure that it is coming. MSI really unveiled the new card as the "SUPRIM 35th Anniversary Limited Edition" without saying it's a GeForce RTX 3090... but you can tell that from the NVLink connector, so ha!

NVIDIA has just made its GeForce RTX 3080 Ti official, with the GA102-powered GPU rocking 12GB of GDDR6X memory and a cost starting at $1199.

The new GeForce RTX 3080 Ti sits firmly between the flagship GeForce RTX 3090 and the GeForce RTX 3080, which have 24GB and 10GB of GDDR6X memory, respectively. NVIDIA pricing the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti is a concern, but the entire market is a Bizarro world as it is... so whatever.

If we're comparing launch prices, the new GeForce RTX 3080 Ti has 18% more GPU cores and 20% more GDDR6X but costs $500 more. It's a bit insane, but we are looking at a more polished RTX 3080 with the RTX 3080 Ti having the additional GPU cores, more memory and wider memory bus resulting in more memory bandwidth makes the RTX 3080 Ti a 1440p and 4K gaming powerhouse.

AMD unveiled multiple products and technologies out now, coming soon, and coming out in 2022 during its virtual Computex 2021 keynote. One of the highlights is the next-gen 3D V-Cache stack chiplet technology, check it out:

The new 3D chiplet technology will allow AMD to stack multiple chips onto each other, with the company showcasing a prototype CPU in the form of a modified Ryzen 9 5900X with 3D V-Cache and 64MB of L3 SRAM. It had a normal Zen 3 CCD right next to a 3D packaged CCD that measures in at 6mm x 6mm.

CCD sizes remain the same, but AMD drops another package on top of the CCD which packs 64MB of cache adding onto the 32MB of L3 cache on the Zen 3 CCD for a total of 96MB of L3 cache per CCD. With the two CCDs we're looking at a total of 192MB of L3 cache through the 3D stacking tech, versus just 64MB of L3 cache in stock form.

Yeah, you read that right -- AMD's new FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) is an even better version of NVIDIA's until now magic technology in the form of DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling).

AMD ran the newly-released Godfall on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 graphics card at 2560 x 1440 (1440p) on the Epic preset, with the GTX 1060 hitting 27FPS average. But with FSR enabled, the GTX 1060 has a 41% boost in performance and hits a much more playable 38FPS average.

Why the GeForce GTX 1060? AMD chose the GeForce GTX 1060 as it is the most commonly used graphics card on Steam, so it is the perfect flex of FSR muscle that it needs to fling shot an arrow into the backyard of every gamer on the planet saying "hey, so FSR kicks ass and you should know about it".

AMD has just made its DLSS competitor official with the announcement of FidelityFX Super Resolution, or FSR -- because I don't want to be typing out FidelityFX Super Resolution and Deep Learning Super Sampling every sentence.

The introduction of FSR is very similar to NVIDIA and its DLSS technology, but in some ways better and in other ways worse. First off, AMD used Godfall in its presentation powered by the Radeon RX 6800 XT at 4K on the Epic preset with ray tracing enabled.

In its 4K native form, the Radeon RX 6800 XT was capable of 49FPS average, but with FSR set to Performance, we're looking at a giant leap up to 150FPS average.

AMD has just announced its new Radeon RX 6000M series of mobile RDNA 2 graphics cards, with the flagship Radeon RX 6800M leading the pack.

The new Radeon RX 6800M will find its way inside of next-gen gaming laptops over the coming months, offering 40 Compute Units (compared to 72 CUs on the desktop RX 6800 XT). The GPU has a Game Clock of up to 2300MHz, while AMD packs in 12GB of GDDR6 memory and 96MB of Infinity Cache.

This isn't much of a cut down from the desktop Radeon RX 6800 XT which has 16GB of GDDR6 memory and 128MB of Infinity Cache. Not bad AMD... not bad at all. As for performance, AMD is wanting to nail the 1440p max settings market and the Radeon RX 6800M does just that.