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Overclocking legend "Der8auer" has had some hands-on time with PowerColor's new custom Radeon RX 9070 XT Red Devil graphics card and overclocked the hell out of the RDN 4 GPU with some undervolting and a 3.3GHz GPU clock and put it head-to-head against the GeForce RTX 5080.

PowerColor's custom RX 9070 XT Red Devil graphics card is the company's flagship RDNA 4 card, with Der8auer reporting that it features higher-quality components and a higher-end cooler. The card is so quiet that Der8auer said he thought he mixed up the OC and Silent BIOS switches, but in real-world testing both of those settings had nearly identical results (62-63C on the RDNA 4 GPU, and 85C hotspot temperatures).

Der8auer started by tweaking the fan profile settings by forcing a 49% fan speed, which is the maximum that the overclocker's ears could enjoy. Once this was tweaked, the results were instant: the RDNA 4 GPU scaled past 2970MHz (2.97GHz) and hitting as high as 3030MHz (3.03GHz) which isn't as high as PowerColor's advertised 3060MHz (3.06GHz) that it says the RX 9070 XT Red Devil is meant to hit.

GALAX's new custom GeForce RTX 5090D HOF OC Lab XOC Limited Edition graphics card has been teased, with its dual 12-2x6 power connectors and overclock breaking 3DMark Speed Way's world record with the GB202 GPU clocking in at 3.27GHz.

The GALAX OC team and Micka have shown off the design of the GALAX RTX 5090D HOF OC Lab XOC Limited Edition graphics card that sports not one but two 12-2x6 power connectors, versus the old design with a single power connector. The GALAX OC team helped design the custom PCB design for the new RTX 5090D HOF OC Lab XOC Limited Edition graphics card, with "XOC" standing for "Extreme OC" which is a model that only GALAX will use in-house.

NVIDIA has to improve every single change to TGP and memory settings, where after approval, BIOSes are distributed confidentially. XOC BIOSes usually leak out to the public, but this is not something that should be done lightly as cards without a dual BIOS make it risky as it can cause failure and you'll have a dead card on your hands.

A survey on the new GPUs from AMD and NVIDIA has cast some further light on the Blackwell versus RDNA 4 battle, with some interesting revelations - including the surprising number of PC gamers out there who've had their enthusiasm for a new GPU pretty much stamped out.

Or maybe that isn't so surprising, depending on your viewpoint, but before we get into that, let's just remember that this is a single survey, so don't draw too much in the way of conclusions.

The poll - conducted by German tech site ComputerBase (and flagged up by 3D Center, via VideoCardz) - tried to feel out wider opinions on both sets of new GPUs, as well as gauging the level of sales.

It appears the leaks and rumors were correct, NVIDIA is planning on pulling the cover off three new graphics cards, an RTX 5060 and an RTX 5060 Ti, which will arrive in two models.

Reports indicate NVIDIA has briefed the press ahead of the official announcement of three new cards tomorrow, with gaming being able to expect the following to be unveiled: RTX 5060 Ti 16GB, RTX 5060 Ti 8GB, and an RTX 5060. NVIDIA didn't inform the press what the specifications for the cards were ahead of the announcement, but leakers have already done the legwork for us there. Previous rumors indicate the RTX 5060 Ti will launch with 4608 CUDA cores, with 16GB and 8GB variants, both rocking GDDR7 memory.

As for the RTX 5060, we previously heard the new mid-range card will feature 3840 CUDA cores, and arrive with 8GB of VRAM. It will also feature GDDR7 memory. Notably, the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB and 8GB variants will have a 180W TGP, while the RTX 5060 drops down to 150W. What wasn't included in the reported NVIDIA briefing was mention of the rumored RTX 5050, which is slated to be NVIDIA's sub $300 Blackwell-based GPU aimed at entry-level PC gamers.

Immediately after launching the GeForce RTX 50-series graphics cards NVIDIA announced it was conducting a giveaway, which gave fans a chance to get their hands on the fastest graphics card on the planet, the GeForce RTX 5090. Now, the lucky winner has emerged.

In a now-viral post on the r/NVIDIA subreddit, Reddit user "Happy_Killer77" shared a photo of an RTX 5090 sitting in its packaging, and above it was is packaging lid that features NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang's signature along with the works "RTX On!". For those who don't remember, shortly after the new generation of cards was unveiled, NVIDIA announced a giveaway that enabled fans to win multiple RTX 5090s.

NVIDIA's announcement didn't state the company's CEO would sign them, but it's not totally unusual as NVIDIA gave away GPUs within mystery boxes as well as individually at the GeForce Greats in December. These GPUs ranged from NVIDIA's first GeForce card, the GeForce 256, all the way up to RTX 4080, with many of these cards being signed by Huang. Given the current reseller market climate and the elusive nature of the latest generation of NVIDIA GPUs, you can expect this signed RTX 5090 would go for a pretty penny.

NVIDIA appears to have restocked its elusive RTX 50-series GPUs as the company has sent out emails to customers informing them they have been selected to purchase a new GeForce RTX 50-series graphics card.

The launch of the GeForce RTX 50-series GPU has solidified itself into history as one of the worst GPU launches from NVIDIA, as the company is battling missing hardware on random GPUs, associated power connector failures, and, probably most importantly, an extremely overpriced reseller market caused by dwindling stock.

While we still don't have an answer as to why there is such little stock of the Blackwell-based GPUs, we do have some good news, stock has come back as NVIDIA has begun sending out emails to its Priority Access members informing them they have been selected to purchase a new RTX 50-series GPU.

In January, reports of GeForce RTX 5090s with damaged PCIe connections began to appear online. The visible damage was allegedly caused by ASUS's new 'PCIe Slot Q-Release Slim' system on the company's latest AMD and Intel motherboards, which allows for GPUs to be removed in a single motion without having to press a button or remove a lock. Reports from reviewers noted that sometimes their GeForce RTX 5090's "got stuck," which meant removing the GPU could (allegedly) cause damage.

In a formal response, ASUS's North American team said that after testing and evaluation, it "found no damage to the motherboard or graphics card that would affect functionality and/or performance." It also added that "any type of PCIe add-in card will exhibit signs of usage and wear marking after 60 continuous insertions and removals."

Well, GIGABYTE disagrees. The company's AORUS team in Japan posted a video to social media titled 'Ultimate PCIe Scratch Test' to see what would happen to a GPU's PCIe connection after 100 insertions and removals on its GIGABYTE Z890 AORUS ELITE WIFI7 ICE motherboard. You can probably guess what the result was.

Specs for the upcoming mainstream GeForce RTX 5060 GPU have appeared online courtesy of known industry insider @kopite7kimi, which details the hardware configuration of NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4060 replacement. As seen in the latest Steam Hardware survey results, the RTX 4060 is the most popular card among PC gamers, so this will most likely become the best-selling model in the RTX Blackwell line-up.

The GeForce RTX will be powered by a cut-down version of the GB206 chip that powers the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti and will feature 3840 CUDA Cores. This is a 25% increase over the GeForce RTX 4060 and one of the most significant gen-on-gen spec increases for the GeForce RTX 50 Series. Although it's set to feature 8GB of VRAM on a 128-bit bus, the bump to fast GDDR7 should lead to a 50% increase in bandwidth. This should make the card faster than the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti in most workloads.

The leak also lists a 150W power rating, which makes the GeForce RTX 5060 30% more power-hungry than the GeForce RTX 4060. However, this is still lower than the GeForce RTX 3060's 170W power rating.

If you were hoping for a way to fudge wider support for AMD's impressive new FSR 4 technology, there's now a tool capable of doing just that.

OptiScaler is a nifty utility that's been around for a while now, and as VideoCardz noticed, it just added support to force FSR 4 to be enabled - not in every PC game out there, though.

What OptiScaler does is allow games that already have an upscaling solution to have that switched for another option, so for example, a title that only has DLSS support can be modded to work with XeSS or FSR.

Following the launch of the GeForce RTX 5070, gamers are now looking toward what NVIDIA plans on offering at the budget end of the stack of Blackwell graphics cards, and now a reliable, and infamous leaker in GPU space has weighed in.

Fuel has just been added to the speculatory fire of what NVIDIA is cooking at its low-end of RTX 50-series GPUs, and the latest rumors corroborate what we heard last week from WCCFTech, which reported on the existence of an RTX 5050 -- a possible sub $300 graphics card. Reliable GPU leaker kopite7kimi has shared specifications for not only the RTX 5050 but also the expected RTX 5060 and an RTX 5060 Ti. According to the leaker, the RTX 5060 and 5060 Ti will introduce NVIDIA's GB206 GPU, while the RTX 5050 will feature the GB207 GPU.

What are the other specifications? According to kopite7kimi, the RTX 5060 Ti will feature two memory specifications on a 128-bit GDDR7 bus, with 8GB and 16GB variants. As we have previously reported, the RTX 5060 Ti will be a 180W TGP, and feature 4608 cores. As for the RTX 5050, this low-end model will be a 130W TGP card with a 128-bit GDDR6 memory bus and will only arrive in one 8GB variant. It will feature 2560 cores. What we don't know much about is the RTX 5060.

AMD looks to be cooking up a new entry-level RDNA 4-based Radeon RX 9050 graphics card, with a Mexican retailer listing the new Radeon RX 9050 and Radeon RX 9060 graphics cards on its website.

We didn't have a 50-class card from AMD with RDNA 3, but it looks like they're returning with RDNA 4 after the Radeon RX 5000 and Radeon RX 6000 series GPUs -- except for the Radeon RX 5500 XT and RX 6500 XT -- we haven't had a 50-class card for a while now.

In a post on X by user @JosefSt42064525, Mexican retailer DDTECH has one of its filters enabled with the Radeon RX 9050 on the left. Not only is the new Radeon RX 9050 listed, but the new Radeon RX 9060 is also listed.

NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX 5050 graphics card has been in the headlines this week, with some fresh information on the upcoming mid-range Blackwell GPU appearing.

We should expect NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX 5050 to drop down to GDDR6 memory, leaving the rest of the RTX 50 series GPU fleet with GDDR7, making it more budget-focused. AMD's new Radeon RX 9000 series "RDNA 4" has launched with the RX 9070 XT and RX 9070, but we can expect budget-friendly RDNA 4 coming soon to compete with budget-friendly Blackwell.

In a new report from Benchlife, we're learning that the RTX 5050 should have 8GB of GDDR6 memory, which aligns with the mobile GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop GPU leaks from earlier this year that teased 8GB of GDDR6. In terms of specifications, NVIDIA's new mid-range GeForce RTX 5050 along with its 8GB GDDR6 should have a 135W TDP powered by a single 8-pin power connector.

Last week AMD launched its first RDNA 4 GPUs with the release of the new Radeon RX 9070 and Radeon RX 9070 XT - two cards that have received universally positive reviews thanks to their performance, improvements in key areas like ray-tracing and AI, and pricing. RDNA 4's debut also saw the release of AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 25.3.1 - the most significant Radeon driver release in years.

Hardware-wise, it supports a wide range of new GPUs and Ryzen CPUs with integrated Radeon graphics. For RDNA 4 early adopters, driver-level support for the latest and most impressive AMD Fidelity FX Super Resolution 4 (FSR 4) upscaling is finally a worthy alternative to NVIDIA's DLSS. Exclusive to RDNA 4 and the Radeon RX 9000 Series, FSR 4 is available in AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 25.3.1, which will override FSR in games with built-in AMD FSR 3.1 support to the new AI version.

AMD's driver-based Frame Generation, which is supported by several generations of RDNA graphics, has also been updated. AMD Fluid Motion Frames 2.1 promises improved image quality and reduced ghosting for a smoother experience.

Typically, we don't associate driver issues and serious bugs with a GeForce RTX launch; however, NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 50 Series debut has seen many problems and controversies emerge. For early adopters of the GeForce RTX 5080 and GeForce RTX 5090, one issue that users have flagged is GPU crashes, resulting in a 'black screen.' Without an image, the only course of action is a reboot.

The good news is that the driver team at NVIDIA has been engaging with users reporting this issue and has released a hotfix driver to resolve it, which made its way into the GeForce RTX 5070's launch-day Game Ready Driver. However, the 'black screen' issue seems challenging to fix as NVIDIA has just released GeForce Hotfix Display Driver Version 572.75 to address the problem - again.

The latest Hotfix Display Driver targets GeForce RTX 50 Series owners and builds on the March 5 release of Game Ready Driver 572.70. Interestingly, it resolves another issue related to the overclocking performance of the GeForce RTX 5080 and RTX 5090.

AMD's next RDNA 4 GPUs will target the mainstream market. A new leak from ACER (via Videocardz) confirms the specs for the Radeon RX 9060 XT. Like the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti, the GPU is expected to launch with two variants: one with 8GB of GDDR6 memory and one with 16GB of GDDR6 memory.

Details on the GPU chip, configuration, and expected performance are all TBC, but we know all models will ship with a single 8-pin power connector with a recommended 500W power supply. The 8GB and 16GB of GDDR6 memory will also feature a speed of 20 Gbps (similar to the recent Radeon RX 9070 Series), on a slower 128-bit interface.

The listing confirms the display configuration: a single HDMI 2.1 port and two DisplayPort 2.1a ports. In addition to 8GB and 16GB variants, OC models will push the boost clock speed like we've seen with the Radeon RX 9070 Series.

Rumors have been circulating that NVIDIA plans to release two versions of the upcoming GeForce RTX 5060 Ti - one with 8GB of VRAM and one with 16 GB. With the latest leak from industry insider @kopite7kimi on X, we now have specs for the upcoming GPU confirming two models: a GeForce RTX 5060 Ti with 8GB of GDDR7 memory on a 128-bit bus and one with 16GB of GDDR7 memory on the same 128-bit bus.

The GB206-300-A1 RTX Blackwell chip will power both cards and ship with 4608 CUDA Cores. This is a modest 6% increase in hardware compared to the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti, which features 4352 CUDA Cores. The GeForce RTX 5070 shipped with a 4% increase in CUDA Cores compared to the GeForce RTX 4070 and delivered 20% faster performance.

So, with these specs, what can we expect from the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti? Assuming RTX Blackwell performance scaling remains the same, the lower the stack we go, the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti could deliver up to GeForce RTX 4070 performance levels.

Overclockers UK is one of the biggest IT retailers in the UK, with the company selling over 5000 units of AMD's new Radeon RX 9070 series GPUs on launch, and that AMD has a "monster on its hands" as RDNA 4 demand is "crazy'.

In a new post on the Overclockers UK forums, staff member "Gibbo" said that the company had sold 5000 units on the day RDNA 4 launched, but in a follow-up post, we see that "demand is crazy" for the new Radeon RX 9070 series GPUs. In previous leaks from Moore's Law is Dead, we heard that RDNA 4 supply was 3x the COMBINED supply of NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX 50 series, and 3-10x more RDNA 4 stock than there is RTX 5080 stock.

Gibbo said: "That is why I dropped the hint here, because you guys literally have around five minutes before the traffic swoops in and starts buying them all up. We do have several deliveries due today and next week, so we might have more available later. We have sold around 5000 units now, warehouse is working very hard to get them all shipped out today".

NVIDIA's new RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell workstation GPU series will be unveiled at GTC 2025 between March 17-20, with a recent leak teasing the new card, now we have some more concrete hardware details.

The new NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell workstation edition GPU will feature the GB202 GPU with 24064 CUDA cores, a whopping 96GB of GDDR7 memory with ECC, and a 600W TDP. But new information from leaker @haruzake5719 spotted online, the GB202 GPU will feature 24064 CUDA cores, 752 Tensor Cores, and 188 RT Cores.

Mark Brown also posted on X, where he saw some leaked specs during a Google search with a post from Leadtek pointing to its new "NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Workstation Edition Blackwell GPU" with all of the specs we can expect. The Leadtek website says that the new RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPU will have a 600W TDP, which means we should expect to see just a single 16-pin power connector on the card.

Aphacool has just unveiled the first official waterblock for AMD's new Radeon RX 9070 series "RDNA 4" graphics cards.

The company has unveiled its new CORE RX 9070 XT Taichi with Backplate, made for ASRock's new custom Radeon RX 9070 XT Taichi graphics card. There is no Radeon RX 9070 non-XT variant, and no overclocked or non-OC variant, with Alphacool's single variant made specifically for the ASRock RX 9070 XT Taichi, and that GPU only.

Although, the company does that that this new product is "part" of the Core product series for the "latest AMD Radeon RX generation", and that "these coolers" which -- at least to me -- means more models will come. Let's hope we see more waterblocks from Alphacool for more custom RDNA 4 cards.

Inno3D's new custom GeForce RTX 5090 Frostbite graphics card is a water-cooled new Blackwell beast, but the 12V-2x6 power cable is absolutely cooking at over 150C+ temperatures.

During his review of the Inno3D GeForce RTX 5090 Frostbite graphics card, HardwareLuxx reviewer Andreas Schilling shared some details of the waterblocked GPU with some thermal imagery. In the post on X above, we can see that the hotspot temperature of the 12V-2x6 power connector hitting 150.6C while the PSU was reaching 160C... hot.

Schilling was asked which GPU and PSU he was using, to which he replied the RTX 5090 Frostbite and the be quiet! Dark Power 13 PSU. Power consumption on the water-cooled RTX 5090 Frotsbite was also hitting 600W.