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NVIDIA's RTX 5050 is again the subject of chatter from the rumor mill, with an apparent confirmation that GDDR6 memory will be employed with the desktop version of this GPU (but not the laptop variant).

VideoCardz reported last week that its sources claimed that NVIDIA hasn't given up on the desktop spin of this graphics card, despite it falling off the radar in recent times, while the laptop version was what all the rumors were focused on.

Other sources have jumped on this confirmation bandwagon - obviously add salt with all this - and Benchlife has now said that NVIDIA's graphics card making partners have received updated info on the RTX 5050 desktop.

MSI only released a handful of GPUs for AMD's RDNA 3 generation, led by the flagship Radeon RX 7900 XTX Gaming Trio. And with the company deciding to skip the RDNA 4 generation entirely, with no Radeon RX 9000 Series GPUs from the company currently announced or on track for release in 2025, by the looks of it, MSI's desktop GPU business is exclusively GeForce RTX.

Regarding tinkering with GPU settings, overclocking, and undervolting, MSI Afterburner is one of the go-to third-party apps for PC gamers. And there's some good news for RDNA 4 gamers, as based on a new post from one of the developers (via Guru3D forums), MSI Afterburner is set to get unofficial support for RDNA 4 GPU architecture in an upcoming Beta release.

According to the post, the developer will use a PowerColor Radeon RX 9070 XT to add RDNA 4 support. As there are no official MSI GPUs for the RDNA 4 flagship, the developer sourced a Radeon RX 9070 XT on their own to support the popular GPU customization and optimization app.

A new report from the analysts at Jon Peddie Research, tracking PC shipments and desktop graphics cards from AIBs (add-in board partners like ASUS, MSI, GIGABYTE, etc.), sheds new light on NVIDIA's dominance in the space. It's no secret that GeForce RTX is the PC gaming GPU leader (check out the latest data from Steam here), followed by AMD's Radeon in a distant second, and then Intel's Arc Graphics in a non-existent third.

According to the new report from Jon Peddie Research, NVIDIA's GPU market share (covering shipments) increased by 8.5%, bringing its overall share from 84% in Q4 2024 to a monopolizing 92% in Q1 2025. That sort of number means there's essentially no competition, and with that, AMD's GPU market share dropped by 7.3% to 8% in Q1 2025 - an all-time low.

It's a bleak picture for Team Red and one that is even worse for Intel, with its 1.2% market share evaporating entirely. According to the report, Intel's PC GPU shipment share for Q1 2025 was 0%.

The GPU grapevine is once more alive with chatter about NVIDIA's RTX 5050 desktop graphics card, and despite our recent worries, apparently this model is still incoming.

If you're thinking - recent worries, what might they be? - we're talking about the fact that of late, all the rumors have been about the mobile RTX 5050, with no mention of the desktop version, leading us to be concerned that there may not be a latter. (After all, there was never an RTX 4050 desktop, which was a sore point with budget-conscious PC gamers).

Well, it appears the desktop RTX 5050 is theoretically still incoming, because as VideoCardz reports, the rumor mill lit up with some speculation about this graphics card yesterday. On top of that, the tech site says it has contacted sources who indicated that NVIDIA is indeed about to launch this GPU in the coming weeks.

The fastest speed a GPU has ever run at has been beaten with a new world record overclock set by a well-known enthusiast in the field, SkatterBencher.

As VideoCardz reports, this achievement happened at Computex 2025, in a livestream of the G.Skill World Record OC Stage, where the overclocker recorded a speed of 4250 MHz running GPU-Z - with integrated Intel graphics no less.

To be precise, this was the iGPU of the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K, and following the record-breaking feat, SkatterBencher configured a 3.9GHz overclock with more longevity (obviously record-breaking efforts are brief in nature).

We're days away from the June 5 launch of the Radeon RX 9060 XT, which is set to arrive in two flavors - 8GB starting from $299 and 16GB starting from $349. With benchmarks and even a full review already leaking ahead of the launch, alongside AMD's internal performance it shared during the GPU's Computex 2025 reveal, it's pretty clear that the Radeon RX 9060 XT will go head-to-head with the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti.

However, for those looking for a mainstream or more affordable GPU to tweak and overclock, the Radeon RX 9060 XT could be the ticket. A Redditor named 'uesato_hinata' actually got their hands on an XFX Swift Radeon RX 9060 XT OC White Triple Fan Gaming Edition early and played around with its settings using a beta Radeon driver.

This is XFX's premium 9060 XT, so it's probably the perfect candidate for overclocking. With OC models like this and others already shipping with a 3320 MHz Boost Clock, one of the highest we've seen on a desktop gaming GPU, it looks like the Radeon RX 9060 XT clock speed can be pushed up to 3.5 GHz (3,474 MHz) with a 199W power draw.

AMD's mainstream RDNA 4 GPU, the Radeon RX 9060 XT, is set to launch later this week, which means reviews will probably start appearing online on the day or a few hours prior. However, a video review from eTeknix inadvertently (and briefly) went online before the embargo date/time.

With the internet being the internet, the review was spotted before it was taken down, with Redditor 'BasedDaemonTargaryen' and GPU news outlet Videocardz snapping screenshots of the Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB GPU's overall 10-game 1080p and 1440p average performance.

Looking at the average FPS, the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB is around 3.7% faster at 1080p and 6% faster at 1440p. However, regarding 1% lows, which indicate how smooth the overall performance is, the Radeon RX 9060 XT pulls ahead by 3.5% at 1080p and 7.8% at 1440p.

The Steam Hardware and Software Survey results for May 2025 are in, and on the GPU front, NVIDIA's latest GeForce RTX 50 Series is starting to gain some serious momentum. The mid-range GeForce RTX 5070 is the most popular option, followed by the GeForce RTX 5080 and RTX 5070 Ti. In fact, the RTX 5070's share has almost doubled in a month, which shows us that it's currently the GPU of choice for new builds and upgrades.

Interestingly, the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti, launched in mid-April with an 8GB and 16GB variant, has made its Steam Hardware and Software Survey debut this month, toward the bottom of the chart. As one of the most affordable RTX 50 Series cards, the RTX 5060 Ti will likely continue to climb Steam's 'most popular gaming GPU' chart in the coming months.

Surprisingly, AMD's Radeon RX 9070 XT, which was received positively by gamers and reviewers, is still nowhere to be found. According to the results, AMD's most popular discrete graphics cards are the Radeon RX 6600, followed by the Radeon RX 580 and Radeon RX 6700 XT.

The Intel Core Ultra 200V Series of mobile processors, also called 'Lunar Lake,' were the first chips to arrive with integrated second-generation Arc 'Battlemage' graphics. Like AMD's recent mobile Ryzen APUs with integrated RDNA graphics, the Intel Core Ultra 200V Series represents a new era for APUs or CPUs with integrated graphics, in that they can play modern AAA titles with decent performance and image quality.

That said, most portable PC gaming handhelds have opted to use Ryzen APUs over Lunar Lake, with MSI's Claw 8 AI+ and Claw 7 AI+ being the only high-profile PC gaming handhelds with an Intel Core Ultra 200V Series processor. Intel rolled out today's specific GPU performance boost update to handhelds a month ago, with today's Intel Graphics Driver 32.0.101.6874 (WHQL Certified) adding these enhancements to all Lunar Lake devices.

It's a pretty big one, offering up to 10% more gaming performance on Intel Core Ultra 200V Series processors.

NVIDIA's expensive new RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPU has been tested in gaming against the GeForce RTX 5090 by overclocking legend Der8auer, in games including Cyberpunk 2077, Star Wars Outlaws, Remnant 2, and Assassin's Creed Mirage.

Starting with Cyberpunk 2077, we have the new NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPU -- which costs over $10,000 by the way -- the RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPU is 15% faster than the GeForce RTX 5090. This is at 4K with maxed-out graphics settings, but with RT (ray tracing) and PT (path tracing) disabled.

Der8auer ran the RTX PRO 6000 vs RTX 5090 vs RTX 4090 benchmarks on an AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D processor inside of an ASUS Crosshair X870E Hero motherboard, with 32GB of DDR5-6000 RAM at CL30. Moving onto Star Wars Outlaws, also at 4K and maxed-out graphics settings, the RTX PRO 6000 beats out the RTX 5090 by 11%.

PC gamers just want to spend their hard-earned cash on the best gaming PC components available, with Redditors now reporting that they purchased a ZOTAC GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card from Micro Center, but were scammed.

Instead of the RTX 5090, they found backpacks (yeah, the ones that go... on your back) inside of the box, and not their expensive new RTX 5090 graphics card. Redditor u/JamesFerg650 was scammed, reporting he purchased a brand new ZOTAC GeForce RTX 5090 but when he opened the box, there was no RTX 5090, and instead it was a few backpacks.

Even though the box was sealed, it means that the package was tampered with before it reached the shipping docks of Micro Center, and this since Redditor isn't the only one that has been scammed with an RTX 5090. Micro Center has since confirmed there have been 30 cases of RTX 5090 cards with backpacks in them, and they're all ZOTAC GeForce RTX 5090 graphics cards.

NVIDIA is reportedly set to cut production volumes by a rather large 20-30% of its GeForce RTX 50 series GPUs, with the company making more room to make its new GB300 AI GPUs.

In a post on X by insider @Jukenlosreve and from a leaker on Board Channels, we're hearing that NVIDIA is set to cut the production of the GeForce RTX 50 series GPUs significantly in China, pushing more of its semiconductor chip-making focus into Blackwell AI GPUs including the new GB300.

We've seen some mega-expensive GeForce RTX 50 series cards on the market, with not-so-great availability, and even-worse-so pricing in some countries. NVIDIA only has so much silicon orders with TSMC that it seems that AI GPUs are becoming a bigger and bigger focus (something I said to various industry peeps at Computex 2025 earlier this month) that it seems to be shifting focus from gaming GPU production, to AI GPU production (which is where FAR bigger money is).

AMD is reportedly preparing a new enthusiast graphics card, with a rumored Radeon RX 9080 XT now in the headlines... with gaming performance beating the RTX 5080 and quite possibly matching the upcoming RTX 5080 SUPER.

In a new video from leaker Moore's Law is Dead, we're hearing that AMD is reportedly working on a new enthusiast-level RDNA 4-based graphics card that could end up being called the Radeon RX 9080 XT -- but let's hope AMD doesn't go nuts and call it something ridiculous like the Radeon RX 9080 XTX Ultra AI NPU or something like that.

Anyway, according to MLID's sources, the purported RDNA 4-based enthusiast GPU rocks faster GDDR7 memory on a 256-bit memory bus, with up to 32GB of GDDR7 on offer for the purported Radeon RX 9080 XT. Not only that, but the GPU was being pushed to its limits at anywhere between 3.7GHz and a much higher 4.0GHz, with up to 450W of power.

Yeston is offering RX 9060 XT graphics cards in 8GB and 16GB flavors as expected, but what very much isn't expected is that it appears that these products have different clock speeds as well as memory loadouts.

Now, this could be some kind of a mistake in terms of listing the respective specs of these Yeston GAEA models - which are going on sale in China in just over a week - or there might be a genuine difference here.

As VideoCardz reports, according to the specs, Yeston's RX 9060 XT with 16GB runs with a boost clock of 3230MHz and a game clock of 2620GHz, compared to 3130MHz and 2530MHz for the 8GB board.

Some PC gamers are getting a bit frustrated with a perceived lack of progress in the fixing of bugs with AMD's GPUs, and there's a particularly weird glitch with Oblivion Remastered that remains unsolved by the latest driver, and it's rather ruining the experience for some players.

AMD announced the release of version 25.5.2 of its Adrenalin graphics driver (as caught by VideoCardz), and it delivers support for F1 25, and a fix for a bug causing crashes when path tracing is turned on with RX 9000 GPUs. However, as you can see from the above Reddit thread, there are numerous complaints about bugs that haven't been fixed.

That includes the known issues mentioned by Team Red, which are intermittent crashing when using a multimonitor setup with AMD FreeSync and an RX 9000 GPU, alongside stuttering when Alt-Tabbing and streaming to Discord (again with multiple monitors). The latter is a bug which has been around for quite some time, too, with AMD seemingly struggling to cure this particular gremlin.

Consider this one a small leftover from our packed week of Computex 2025 coverage. At ASRock's booth, we saw the company's new flagship 'concept' Radeon GPU - the ASRock Radeon RX 9070 XT Taichi White. More than just a white-colored version of the impressive ASRock Radeon RX 9070 XT Taichi that we've already reviewed, the physical design has been refined to include an LCD on top.

In addition, the top now features a full RGB light strip and a more fully enclosed design than the original we reviewed a couple of months ago. It looks the same underneath the hood, with a similar 3100 MHz out-of-the-box overclock and premium Taichi 3X cooling system with a 16-power-phase design and phase-change thermal pads.

Per our review of the black and gold ASRock Radeon RX 9070 XT Taichi model, thanks to RDNA 4's massively improved ray-tracing performance and new FSR 4 upscaling technology, the premium Taichi variant from ASRock proved to be one of the fastest models we encountered. Its overall 1440p and 4K gaming performance is comparable to the Radeon RX 7900 XTX and GeForce RTX 4080.

Synthetic benchmark results for AMD's upcoming mainstream RDNA 4 GPU, the Radeon RX 9060 XT, have appeared online. They show a decent performance improvement compared to the previous generation's Radeon RX 7600 XT.

The Geekbench 6 results covering Vulkan and OpenCL tests, paired with the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU, 32GB of DDR5 memory, and a GIGABYTE X870E AORUS MASTER motherboard, show up to a 30% improvement when compared to its RDNA 3 counterpart. Geekbench is not precisely the best benchmark for replicating real-world gaming performance, but it's a promising result nonetheless.

The Vulkan score of 124,251 places performance somewhere between the GeForce RTX 5060 and RTX 5060 Ti, while the OpenCL score of 109,315 places its performance below the RTX 5060, which is surprising. However, this is still notably higher than the Radeon RX 7600 XT.

Intel's high-end Battlemage graphics card is still incoming according to the latest from the rumor mill.

That's the word from Dutch tech site Tweakers (as flagged by VideoCardz) which during Computex 2025, chatted to multiple sources familiar with what's going on at Intel, and apparently the Arc B770 flagship is still in the pipeline from Team Blue.

Seemingly Intel is looking at a launch in the second half of 2025 for the B770, with the expectation being that Q4 is the most likely release timeframe, assuming there isn't any slippage from where the company is currently at with the development of this GPU.

It looks like another prototype NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card has leaked, sporting not one, not two, but 4 x 16-pin power connectors. Check it out:

In a new post on X from leaker @Yuuki_Ans, we're getting a look at a purported engineering sample (ES) version of NVIDIA's flagship GeForce RTX 5090 that never reached the market, although we wish it did (just to see how insane it would be). The prototype RTX 5090 features 4 x 16-pin power connectors, meaning this beast would have up to 2400W of power consumption at the ready.

The prototype RTX 5090 also features doubled VRM sections on the right of the card, allowing that juicy 2400W to flow into the card. It looks like the ES card also features 5 display connectors, which is weird as we usually get only 4 display connectors on graphics cards... so, it could be a TITAN Blackwell prototype that has been leaked before (in the links below) or something completely different, but whatever it is... it would've been an absolute beast in terms of power flowing into the card at a wall-busting 2400W.

The mainstream desktop GeForce RTX 5060 launched last week (while the TweakTown team was at Computex 2025 in Taipei), and the GPU's arrival has not been without incident. RTX 5060 (and RTX 5060 Ti) owners have been reporting blank or black screen issues after a system reboot, with some systems being unrecoverable. The fix? Update the firmware on your RTX 5060 or RTX 5060 Ti.

Having to update the firmware, or VBIOS, on a mainstream and popular GPU like the GeForce RTX 5060 is not something you usually see, as it points to a fundamental issue or flaw. Issues like this are often discovered and fixed before a consumer launch, with NVIDIA and its partners updating GPUs long before they hit retail shelves.

Several users on NVIDIA's forums have reported blank or black screen issues with the RTX 5060, occurring after a system reboot or at random times. NVIDIA has been asking for Windows crash dump files to figure out what's happening, which involves forcing a manual Windows crash and rebooting into safe mode.