Graphics Cards - Page 20

PC gamers looking for a mid-range GPU and preferring an NVIDIA graphics card will doubtless be interested to learn that the RTX 5070 just hit the lowest price we've seen it at, with a chunky discount over at Newegg.

As spotted by VideoCardz, the model in question is the MSI Ventus 2X OC Black flavor of the GeForce RTX 5070, which has an MSRP of $559.99 but has been reduced to $479.99 and is in stock at Newegg (at the time of writing).

Note that part of this discount is a $20 rebate which you apply for after you've purchased the graphics card. (There's a form to print, and you need to get your rebate application completed three weeks after you've bought the GPU at the latest).

AMD has posted its third-quarter 2025 financial results, with the company's record revenue of $9.2 billion, a 36% year-over-year increase, and a gross margin of 52%. Although Data Center and AI revenue hit $4.3 billion for AMD's Q3 2025, and was up 22% year-over-year, the Client and Gaming segment, covering Ryzen processors and Radeon graphics, delivered even more impressive results.

AMD's Client and Gaming segment recorded revenue of $4 billion for Q3 2025, up a massive 73% year-over-year. Gaming in particular saw a huge 181% increase in year-over-year revenue, to the tune of $1.3 billion (up from $0.5 billion), driven by "higher semi-custom revenue" for consoles like the PlayStation 5 and Ryzen APU devices with integrated Radeon graphics, as well as "strong demand for Radeon gaming GPUs."

When it comes to PC gaming on desktops and laptops equipped with discrete graphics cards, NVIDIA's GeForce RTX dominates the market, with the latest data from Valve showing that GeForce hardware accounts for nearly 80% of Steam users.

GeForce Game Ready Driver 581.80 - WHQL is available now, and there's virtually no way it will end up being as controversial as AMD's most recent Radeon driver release, as it still offers support for select GeForce 700 Series GPUs that are now over a decade old. This one is all about support for some of this month's biggest releases, including Call of Duty: Black Ops 7.

The latest annual release in one of the most popular shooter franchises on the planet is set to launch on November 14, featuring support for DLSS 4 with Multi-Frame Generation for GeForce RTX graphics cards. GeForce Game Ready Driver 581.80 also adds day one support for Ubisoft's visually impressive Roman Empire city builder Anno 117: Pax Romana, launching November 13, and the latest entry in the iconic grand strategy series, Europa Universalis V.

Both of these titles are shipping with DLSS Super Resolution support to enhance the performance of GeForce RTX rigs. The latest GeForce Game Ready Driver also addresses a couple of issues, including one related to DLSS Frame Generation performance in F1 2025. Here's a look at the full GeForce Game Ready Driver 581.80 Release Notes.

A new report has revealed NVIDIA has found a new stream of income by selling its highly sought-after AI GPUs to the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

The report from the Financial Times states Microsoft has received regulatory government approval to send NVIDIA's AI GPUs over to the UAE, with Microsoft's president, Brad Smith, telling the publication on Monday that in September Microsoft became the "first company to receive a license under the Trump administration" to export NVIDIA's AI chips to the UAE.

The approval comes at a time when the US is defiantly against providing China with AI hardware that could give the nation a leg up in the AI race. Moreover, the approval of NVIDIA chips being exported to the UAE is being seen as critical to America's efforts to strengthen the US's alliance with the UAE and reduce China's influence in the region, according to the FT.

AMD's most recent Adrenalin Edition software release and Radeon driver for PC gamers have sparked controversy over the fact that it states all 'new game support' and day-one optimization will be limited to RDNA 3 and RDNA 4 graphics cards going forward. With RDNA 2 GPUs, such as the Radeon RX 6600, being the most popular AMD GPUs for gaming and only four years old, the move left many wondering if they were being left behind.

In one follow-up statement, AMD confirmed that RDNA 1 and RDNA 2 support was entering "maintenance mode" and would receive updates and new game support dictated by "market needs." Adding to the confusion, this response suggested that RDNA 1 and RDNA 2 GPUs would only receive 'new game support' for certain games, and not in a timely manner. This sparked even more backlash, which forced AMD to backtrack and release a full statement.

Titled 'Continued Support for Every Radeon Gamer,' AMD clarified that Radeon RX 5000 and RX 6000 series GPUs would continue to receive "game support for new releases, stability and game optimizations, and security and bug fixes," albeit on a separate driver branch to RDNA 3 and RDNA 4. AMD's reasoning is related to rolling out new Radeon features and technologies that are exclusive to GPUs, such as the Radeon RX 9070 XT.

AMD has put out a statement regarding game optimizations being delivered to owners of older Radeon GPUs, with the company putting out a new blog post titled "Continued Support for Every Radeon Gamer".

Team Red addressed some confusion that erupted after it released the Adrenalin Edition 25.10.2 driver, which it said alongside the release of the driver that GPUs using older RDNA architectures such as RDNA 3 and RDNA 4 would be entering "maintenance mode". That message resulted in many owners of these GPUs believing they would stop receiving day-one game optimization support and merely receive critical firmware and other necessary updates. However, that isn't the case.

AMD explains that it has broken up its architectures into two separate branches, RDNA 1 & 2, and RDNA 3 & 4. This structure enables the company to roll out continued support for all Radeon owners, which includes day-one game optimizations. More specifically, AMD adds that it will still be providing day-one game support for RDNA 1 & 2 GPU owners, which includes the Radeon RX 5000 and RX 6000 series, and its RDNA 3 & 4 owners, which is the Radeon RX 7000 and RX 9000 series GPUs.

The Steam Hardware & Software Survey results for October 2025 are in, and the GeForce RTX 3060 has reclaimed the top spot as the most popular discrete gaming GPU, followed by the GeForce RTX 4060. The 'Top 30' discrete gaming GPUs among PC gamers is once again dominated by NVIDIA, with the company's fastest-growing RTX Blackwell generation GPUs being the GeForce RTX 5070, followed by the mainstream GeForce RTX 5060.

Valve's data shows that the GeForce RTX 5070 is the most popular new graphics card option for PC gaming, and the card could reach the 'Top 10' before the end of the year if its momentum holds. Likewise, RTX 50 Series cards, such as the RTX 5060, 5060 Ti, and 5070 Ti, are continuing to rise up the charts. The only discrete option not in the 'Top 30' is the flagship GeForce RTX 5090.

However, unlike AMD's new RDNA 4-powered Radeon RX 9000 Series, the RTX 5090 makes the list with AMD's latest cards still relegated to the 'Other' category. Or, they are being miscategorized, as there are a few generic 'Radeon Graphics' entries. Here's the complete list.

AMD released the Radeon RX 9070 XT, its flagship RDNA 4 GPU, in March of this year. Launching with an MSRP of $599 in the US, although it was possible to pick up one at or close to this price, for the most part, the 9070 XT has been retailing for around $650 on the low end to around $700 for most models since its debut. As a competitive alternative to the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5070, the value proposition for RDNA 4 naturally makes it a far better deal, priced at $599.

The good news is that you can now purchase a Radeon RX 9070 XT for $599 at multiple retailers in the country; however, this appears to be limited to the reference ASRock Challenger Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB model. Previously available for $649.99, the ASRock Challenger Radeon RX 9070 XT is now available for $599.99 at Newegg, Micro Center, and Walmart.

Built on TSMC's 4nm process with a GPU Boost Clock speed of 3 GHz, AMD's flagship RDNA 4 GPU is in many ways a better option than even the flagship RDNA 3 generation's Radeon RX 7900 XTX. With the new AI-powered FSR 4 and a massive improvement to ray-tracing performance, the 9070 XT delivers excellent 1440p and 4K gaming performance.

There has been another report of a user on Reddit having his SAPPHIRE Radeon RX 9070 XT Nitro+ graphics card and its 16-pin power connector melting.

This is the second Redditor having the 16-pin power connector melt on the same SAPPHIRE RX 9070 XT Nitro+ card, with the same top pins of the connector melting. The bottom row of connectors seems fine, with the entire top stack of pins destroyed.

Redditor u/ProfessionalHost3913 posted that he used the adapter that came with his SAPPHIRE RX 9070 XT Nitro+ card, as the manual that the card ships with recommends the included adapter over other cables. He used the cable, and had the top pins burned as it was flowing power into the GPU. The GPU connector is unaffected, but the Redditor says that when he starts a game or even browses the internet, this monitor will randomly go black.

AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 25.10.2 launched last week for PC gamers with Radeon GPUs, and it sparked quite a bit of backlash because its 'New Game Support' for Battlefield 6 was limited to Radeon RX 7000 (RDNA 3) and Radeon RX 9000 (RDNA 4) Series graphics cards. This means that Radeon RX 5000 (RDNA 1) and Radeon RX 6000 (RDNA 2) owners were effectively left behind in terms of game-specific optimizations.

In a follow-up statement provided to Tom's Hardware, AMD clarified that RDNA 1 and RDNA 2 owners would continue to receive "new features, bug fixes, and game optimizations" as part of a maintenance mode branch for Radeon 'Adrenalin Edition' software, but only "as required by market needs." Another confusing statement, and one that still suggests RDNA 2 gamers were being left behind.

According to Steam's latest Hardware Survey Results, RDNA 2 GPUs like the Radeon RX 6600 from 2021 are AMD's most popular among PC gamers, so the decision to reduce support so soon felt premature. Well, AMD has released a statement to clear up the confusion, confirming that RDNA 1 and RDNA 2 GPUs will receive "game support for new releases."

Intel had some big plans for its Battlemage GPUs, but the company has been struggling to get anything worthwhile into the market, but its cancelled GPU projects did have some promise at least.

In its original Battlemage lineup, Intel was looking more ambitious through some new leaks from @Bionic_Squash on X, where we're being told that the Intel BMG-X3 (G10) and BMG-X4 featured a 3D stacked die with 28 and 40 Xe2 GPU cores, respectively. The leaker teases that the X3 variant featured a 192-bit GDDR6 memory bus, and more excitedly: 512MB of Adamantine cache.

Intel's using 512MB of Adamantine cache would've increased performance just like AMD's Infinity Cache, and would've been 3D-stacked onto the base tile, a complex design that most likely didn't help in its path to cancellation. The leaker said that all Adamantine Cache products were scrapped, which included BMG-X3, BMG-X4, and Arrow Lake Halo (which was rumored a while ago) and would've been Intel's response to AMD's powerful Strix Halo APU.

It looks like it'll be mighty hard trying to find ASUS's new ROG XG Mobile 2025 external GPU, which dropped 9 months ago now, but is finally hitting the market.

The ASUS ROG XG Mobile 2025 was announced back at CES 2025 at the beginning of the year, with availability penciled in for February, just two months later. ASUS said we could expect pricing of $1199 for the ROG XG Mobile with the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Laptop GPU, or $2199 for the ROG XG Mobile with the flagship GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop GPU.

Fast forward to November 2025, and ASUS isn't selling either of its ROG XG Mobile 2025 external GPUs through its retail platform, while instead we've got EXcaliber PC stocking both the RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5090 Laptop GPU variants of the ROG XG Mobile 2025 in the US.

If you were thinking of casting caution to the wind and sacrificing your bank balance to own an NVIDIA RTX 5090 graphics card, here's some bad news - the cost of these already incredibly pricey GPUs appears to be going up, over in Europe, and also in the US.

First off, VideoCardz spotted a report on pricing over in Europe from German tech site PC Games Hardware (PCGH) as highlighted by 3D Center (see the above post on X).

According to PCGH, you can't get the Founders Edition direct from NVIDIA in Germany as it's out of stock, and custom third-party spins on the RTX 5090 are mostly around the €2600 to €2800 mark. (While there are some listings towards the €2200 price point, these are pre-order graphics cards with dubious delivery dates, we're told).

AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 25.10.2 for Radeon graphics cards is here, with the company adding new game support for Battlefield 6 and Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2. However, it seems that, with this new driver, New Game Support will be limited to "Radeon RX 7000 and 9000 series graphics products" going forward, even though the driver is compatible with Radeon RX 5000 and RX 6000 Series graphics cards.

'Expanded Vulkan Extensions Support' in the driver is also limited to RDNA 3 and RDNA 4 products, suggesting AMD is ending RDNA 1 and RDNA 2 PC gaming support. However, in the Known Issues for Battlefield 6 on RDNA 3 and RDNA 4 GPUs, the latest driver lists crashes and timeouts when playing on Ryzen AI chips, as well as issues with streaming the game on Radeon hardware.

On the plus side, this new driver fixes a long list of issues across a wide range of games. So, if you've got a Radeon graphics card or Ryzen APU with integrated graphics and are playing The Last of Us Part II, FBC: Firebreak, GTFO, NBA 2K25, or Baldur's Gate 3, be sure to grab the latest Adrenalin Edition here.

A new version of the NVIDIA App is out and it comes with optimized settings for Battlefield 6 among other games - and some fresh additions for DLSS override support, but there's an annoying bug in the mix, too.

This is version 11.0.5.420 of the NVIDIA App (flagged by VideoCardz) and it provides optimal settings for seven new games as follows:

On top of that, there are 11 games which are now catered for with DLSS override:

MSI Afterburner has a fresh version in the works and apparently it'll support a new class of hardware.

The developer, Alexey Nicolaychuk, has let us know that version 4.6.7 of the GPU overclocking tool (which can do more besides) is now in development with the initial beta expected soon- and it'll come with the mentioned additional support.

VideoCardz noticed that Uniko's Hardware on X flagged up Nicolaychuk's Guru of 3D forum post, where the developer tells us: "New engineering sample just arrived and it is ... not GPU. With the next MSI Afterburner beta (a) new class of MSI hardware products will be natively supported in MSI Afterburner's hardware monitoring module. That's all I can share now. Stay tuned!"

In another tech scam where a purchased component turns out to be just a shell of what it should be, the buyer of an external hard drive got a nasty surprise.

As per a Reddit post uncovered by Tom's Hardware that you can see above, the drive in question was a Seagate model, supposedly a 1TB Backup Plus Slim external HDD.

However, while "everything about it looked and felt legit" at first according to the Redditor, when the case of the external device was opened, there was a microSD card inside (presumably with a small capacity).

There have been some creative solutions in terms of brackets to hold up hefty GPUs, but someone using an ancient Nokia phone as an anti-sag support is one of the more amusing solutions ever shared on Reddit.

And as VideoCardz, who flagged this up from Notebookcheck.net, points out, there are plenty of Redditors who've used weird and wonderful things to prop up their heavyweight GPUs.

In this case, Bulochklem on Reddit has used a Nokia 6124 Classic to prop up their XFX graphics card, and as one commenter put it, when it comes to GPU support brackets: "This is it, we reached peak."

Northridge Fix is an electronics repair shop in Los Angeles, California, with over a decade of experience covering all things tech. It also has a successful YouTube channel detailing the various repairs it has undertaken, from laptops that wouldn't power on with no display to dead GPUs. The latest video focuses on the latter, specifically a damaged GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition.

"One thing I can tell you, never in your life buy a 5090 Founders Edition," Northridge Fix states in the opening section of the video. Strong words, and before we go through the reasons as to why Northridge Fix has strong feelings about NVIDIA's Founders Edition design, it's worth quickly going through what makes the GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition one of the most unique modern GPU releases to date.

Not only does it sport Double Flow Through cooling, but the dual-slot GPU includes a complex, compact, and modular PCB with a separate PCIe interface. At the time of the GPU's release earlier this year, the connectors inside the GPU were described by many as fragile, and the design wasn't considered suitable for custom water-cooling mods in the same way a traditional partner GeForce RTX 5090 would.

With the launch of NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 50 Series of graphics cards this year, MSI has not only revamped its lineup but also introduced new designs, including the brushed-gold Inspire series. The minimalist design of MSI's new Inspire range drops the company's tried-and-true gamer style for something sleeker, simpler, and creator-focused.

And this week, MSI is expanding its Inspire range to include a new compact, entry-level GeForce RTX 5050 model, available in OC and non-OC variants. The OC model pushes clock speeds to 2617 MHz in Extreme Performance mode, while the non-OC variant reaches 2587 MHz. Both offer increased performance over the 2572 MHz reference spec.

However, the most impressive part of the new MSI GeForce RTX 5050 8G INSPIRE ITX is its compact Mini-ITX form factor, measuring 147 x 120 x 45mm. This is the sort of GPU you could install in a tiny rig, which draws just 130W from a single traditional 8-pin power connector.