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AMD is hard at work right now porting its FSR 4 upscaling to its previous-gen RDNA 3 architecture according to the latest rumors, something we should expect later this year to better battle NVIDIA and its DLSS upscaling technology.

In his new video, leaker Moore's Law is Dead reports from an anonymous source at AMD: "I (AMD) was hoping to have more updates for you about efforts to port FSR to RDNA 3, but unfortunately the people I know working on it had nothing new to say last time I talked to them".

MLID's source continued: "The only thing I heard was 'we are taking our time to port FSR 4 to RDNA 3 because we realize how important it is that we get this right' ... so, hey at least that confirms they are doing it!"

AMD's next-generation GPU architecture after RDNA 4 is pointing towards UDNA, or maybe even dubbed UDNA 5 in new leaks, and will bring huge RT performance gains, and more -- and it's not all for PC gamers, but Sony's next-gen PlayStation 6 console plays a huge part in AMD's future with UDNA GPUs.

In a new post on Reddit by @MrMPFR, who has summarized AMD's plants on RT-focused improvements by reading over patent filings from the company from the last two years. AMD's huge focus on RT (ray tracing) improvements aren't just for PC gamers, but Sony's family of PlayStation consoles, and more especially, the next-generation PS6.

The Redditor says that AMD's focus on ray tracing with UDNA 5 could see them ready performance parity in RT gaming with NVIDIA's current-gen GeForce RTX 50 series "Blackwell" GPUs and calls it a "Maxwell moment" for AMD. One of the pieces of the puzzle put together from the patent filings is AMD's approach to BVH (Bounding VolumeHhierarchy) management, which firstly uses the compression of delta instances.

NVIDIA is celebrating May 4th with a wicked giveaway, a custom GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card with either Star Trek or Star Wars theming, asking gamers to choose between the two gigantic cultural phenomenons.

The tweaked GeForce RTX 5090 graphics cards up for giveaway have a sticker applied to them -- it would've been nice for something like the old school NVIDIA TITAN Xp Star Wars Collector's Edition from back in 2017 -- but the custom RTX 5090 Star Wars and RTX 5090 Star Trek graphics cards can be won by simply replying to the post on the official post on X above.

NVIDIA's two custom GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition graphics cards arrive with the X-Wing from Star Wars or the legendary Enterprise NCC-1701 from Star Trek. All you have to do is choose Star Wars OR Star Trek and use #RTXON to win... pretty simple, and you can win the fastest graphics card on the planet.

NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX 5080 SUPER with 24GB and RTX 5070 SUPER with 18GB have been rumored for a while, with the new SUPER variants prepped many months ago, and will increase the heat against RDNA 4 later this year.

In a new video from leaker Moore's Law is Dead, we're hearing from AIBs that they've had RTX 5080 SUPER 24GB and RTX 5070 SUPER 18GB graphics cards ready in labs since 2024. MLID's source explains: "We've (AIB) had 24GB 5080 and 18GB 5070 configurations in labs since 2024. In fact, those leaked 5080 boxes from a few months ago with "24GB" on them were connected to those projects. Basically, NVIDIA's been telling us to "put those variants on hold" while they wait for high capacity GDDR7 to become cheap enough to be worth it for gamers".

"However, this week we were told that the SUPER series is likely happening in 2025, and that we should be prepared to finalize highly overclocked variants of GB203 and GB205 as the 5080 SUPER 24GB and 5070 SUPER 18GB".

There's still some hope simmering away in the rumor pot regarding the prospect of Intel having another Battlemage GPU coming out.

So far, we've had the B580 (and B570) models, but gamers are keen to see something with a bit more pep from Team Blue. The above post on X, from Haze (as seen by VideoCardz), spotted shipping documents that hint this might be the case.

They mention graphics card components (a connector, and PCB stiffener, which is part of the overall makeup of the board) for a Battlemage G31 (or BMG-G31) product.

After arguing for tighter restrictions and control on US chip exports, Anthropic has been publicly criticized by NVIDIA, the company leading the graphics card market by a wide margin, which responded to Anthropic's claims by calling them "tall tales."

Anthropic, an AI startup that is backed by billions of dollars from Amazon, said on Wednesday that Chinese smuggling tactics for GPUs are becoming more sophisticated, and that banned AI GPUs are entering the country "alongside live lobsters" and within "prosthetic baby bumps." The AI startup claims China has established highly sophisticated smuggling operations that enable hundreds of millions of dollars worth of banned US-exported processors to enter the country, hence Anthropic's stance to improve restrictions and control around what processors are exported from the US.

NVIDIA has since responded to these claims, with a spokesperson saying the AI startup is telling "tall tales" and the company should "focus on innovation and rise to the challenge," rather than "tell tall tales that large, heavy, and sensitive electronics are somehow smuggled in 'baby bumps' or 'alongside live lobsters." Anthropic calling for tighter export restrictions could limit NVIDIA's overseas business, which is already currently up in the air as chip restrictions implemented during President Joe Biden's term under the "AI Diffusion Rule" are scheduled to come into effect on May 15.

Fresh rumors are swirling about the RX 9060 XT, which is expected to be revealed later this month, and we're now again hearing that there will be both 8GB and 16GB flavors of this GPU.

However, AMD is apparently set to mostly focus on the 16GB model, so the RX 9060 XT graphics card that has 8GB of RAM will be more of a sideshow - in much the same vein as NVIDIA's RTX 5060 Ti, where the 8GB incarnation is difficult to find. There simply aren't many of those GPUs out there (not that many gamers are really looking, anyway).

If you've been following this thread of speculation regarding AMD's next plans for RDNA 4, you'll recall that we were originally told that there'd be 8GB and 16GB variants of this lower-mid-range GPU - then further rumors insisted that AMD had cancelled the RX 9060 XT 8GB version.

The GeForce Game Ready 576.28 WHQL driver is here, and this one fixes many issues related to the GeForce RTX 50 Series - from crashes to freezes to flickering textures in games. It also resolves a GPU temperature monitoring bug from the most recent official driver release, which caused issues for PCs waking up from sleep states.

This new driver incorporates all of the fixes we've seen in NVIDIA's recent GeForce Hotfix Display Drivers, which have addressed many issues and reported bugs.

This is one of those rare GeForce drivers from NVIDIA that doesn't focus on new game support or optimized settings, and it's a definite must for all GeForce RTX 50 Series owners. Especially those playing Black Myth: Wukong, Red Dead Redemption 2, Horizon Forbidden West, Resident Evil 4, Forza Horizon 5, and more.

AMD is preparing to formally unveil and launch its mainstream RDNA 4 line-up, which includes the Radeon RX 9060 XT 8GB and Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB. Like the recent GeForce RTX 5060 Ti launch from NVIDIA, the difference between the two models is in VRAM capacity. Previously, we reported on a rumor that AMD was planning to lift the lid on the Radeon RX 9060 XT at Computex 2025, and now, with this latest report, we can pencil it in.

A new report at Benchlife (via Videocardz) indicates that the Radeon RX 9060 XT will be unveiled on May 21 as part of AMD's press conference. It also notes that "product availability" will be sometime in June, which aligns with previous rumors about a release in the first week of June.

This also aligns with AMD's official word, indicating that the Radeon RX 9060 XT will be released sometime in Q2 2025. With the baseline GeForce RTX 5060 (with an MSRP of $299) expected to launch on May 19, it'll be interesting to see if this is enough time for AMD to provide benchmark comparisons as these two GPUs, specifically the Radeon RX 9060 XT 8GB, are expected to go head-to-head.

ASUS has enabled a new and previously unreported feature in its flagship ROG Astral line of GPUs for the GeForce RTX 50 Series, available in RTX 5080 and RTX 5090 form. As spotted by Uniko's Hardware (translated), a recent update to ASUS's impressive GPU Tweak software unlocks the ROG Astral line-up's Bosch Sensortec BMI323 Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) chip.

ASUS's flagship ROG Astral line of GPUs can automatically detect and monitor GPU sag.

If you're wondering what this chip is, it includes a gyrometer and accelerometer (the same technology used for videogame motion controls). In GPU Tweak, the chip detects GPU sag and ensures that a horizontal ROG Astral installation has been done correctly. It's even used to monitor the GPU's position and warn you when the card's angle crosses a certain degree threshold.

AMD has officially announced the Radeon RX 9070 GRE, the latest RDNA 4 GPU built using the same Navi 48 chip as the 9070 and 9070 XT. AMD has posted an official product page for the Radeon RX 9070 GRE (which stands for Great Radeon Edition) on the company's Chinese site. The listing confirms it will ship with 12GB of GDDR6 memory on a 192-bit bus. Pre-orders are now open in the region for its imminent May 8 launch.

In addition to 25% less VRAM capacity, the Radeon RX 9070 GRE features 14.3% fewer Compute Units (CUs) than the baseline Radeon RX 9070. The regional price of 4,199 RMB (around $575) is 6.7% cheaper than the Radeon RX 9070's price of 4,999 RMB (around $600). AMD has also listed performance numbers on the product page, noting that the GPU is around 6% faster than the Radeon RX 7900 GRE.

Targeting 1440p Ultra performance, the Radeon RX 9070 GRE delivered impressive results in titles like F1 24, Dragon Age: The Veilguard, Assassin's Creed: Shadows, and Horizon Forbidden West. The following benchmarks represent native or raw performance, without FSR or the new AI-powered FSR 4 upscaling.

A week ago, NVIDIA released GeForce Hotfix Display Driver 576.15, which fixed a range of bugs and issues related to the GeForce RTX 50 Series and a GPU temperature monitoring bug. This Hotfix is built on the GeForce Game Ready 576.02 WHQL for the new GeForce RTX 5060 Ti that introduced a long list of fixes for all GeForce owners, finally responding to widespread reports of driver instability.

This week, NVIDIA is back with GeForce Hotfix Display Driver 576.26, which fixes several game-specific issues for GeForce RTX 50 Series owners. From random crashes in Black Myth: Wukong to flickering backgrounds in the Resident Evil 4 Remake, there's also a fix for display flickering when enabling DisplayPort 2.1 mode with a high refresh rate on GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs.

Several GeForce RTX 50 Series owners have criticized driver stability, so it's great to see NVIDIA release three driver updates in quick succession that address and resolve reported issues. Here are the release notes for GeForce Hotfix Display Driver 576.26.

According to a new report via ITHome and the Chiphell forum, NVIDIA is already talking to its various GPU partners about an upcoming GeForce RTX 50 Series SUPER refresh, with RTX 5080 SUPER and RTX 5070 SUPER cards planned. This announcement is interesting because the report notes that these new SUPER GPUs will increase the VRAM capacity in both cards by 50%.

This would mean that a GeForce RTX 5080 SUPER 24GB and a GeForce RTX 5070 SUPER 18GB are on the way, with GDDR7 memory on a 256-bit and 192-bit memory bus, respectively. These refreshed cards might make use of 3GB GDDR7 modules, similar to the memory configuration of the GeForce RTX 5090 laptop GPU.

This isn't the first time we've heard about a GeForce RTX 5080 with 24GB of VRAM. Last month, we reported on MSI listing a GeForce RTX 5080 with 24GB as compatible with its MAG X870 Tomahawk WiFi motherboard. What was viewed as a potential misprint is now being seen as a possible first look at the GeForce RTX 5080 SUPER refresh.

NVIDIA's new RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell workstation GPU has had its gorgeous PCB leaked, showing off its 96GB of double-sided GDDR7 memory, check it out:

The new NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPU is the flagship GB202-based workstation graphics card from the company, offered in 3 different variants leading up to 96GB of GDDR7 memory. The PCB was recently leaked onto Chiphell, giving us a gander at the amount of work that goes into a ridiculously high-end GPU with 96GB of double-sided GDDR7 memory (48GB per side).

There are no components at all on the PCB pictured -- no GPU, no GDDR7 memory modules -- but GDDR7 memory modules will be placed on both sides of the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPU. Each GDDR7 module is 3GB, with 16 x 2 x 3GB = 96GB in total. NVIDIA could re-use this PCB for its RTX PRO 5000 with 48GB of GDDR7 (as it would use single-sided modules, not double-sided), while the RTX PRO 4500 uses 32GB of GDDR7 memory (2GB modules) and the GB203 GPU.

GALAX has just announced the availability and pricing of its flagship GeForce RTX 5090D graphics in OC LAB XOC, OX LAB Plus-X, and OC LAB variants, priced at up to $4100.

The new GALAX GeForce RTX 5090D HOF (Hall of Fame) series of graphics cards has been tweaked by the company's in-house OC Lab, with the finely-tuned graphics card featuring a 36-phase VRM and 70A high-current DrMOS. Inside, we've got NVIDIA's new GB202-250 GPU packing 21,760 CUDA cores, alongside 32GB of ultra-fast GDDR7 memory at 28Gbps.

GALAX is launching 3 different models today including the GeForce RTX 5090D HOF OC LAB XOC, OC LAB Plus-X, and OC LAB with the most powerful model being the OC LAB XOC model. The GALAX RTX 5090D OC LAB XOC graphics card features the world's only RTX 50 series GPU with not one, but two 12V-2x6 power connectors.

ASUS has just unveiled its monster new ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5080 DOOM Edition graphics card, celebrating the 30th anniversary of the legendary first-person shooter, and just before DOOM: The Dark Ages drops on May 15.

ASUS teamed up with DOOM publisher Bethesda for its new ROG Astral RTX 5080 DOOM Edition graphics card, which won't be sold by ASUS directly, and it will not be sold separately, as it'll be part of a bundle (which includes a mousepad, a keyback replica, and a cool DOOM-themed t-shirt).

As for the graphics card itself, it has a green and gold aesthetic with one of the stickers on the ASUS ROG Astral RTX 5080 DOOM Edition featuring the Shield Saw icon, which is a weapon from the game. ASUS classes this new card as a "BFGPU"... you know, a Big F***in' GPU.

AMD is reportedly set to reveal RDNA 4-powered Radeon RX 9000M series laptop GPUs at Computex 2025 in a couple of weeks time, led by the new flagship Radeon RX 9080M that will reportedly have 64 Compute Units of RDNA 4, with 16GB of GDDR6 memory.

In a new post on X by @All_The_Watts, we're hearing that AMD's upcoming Radeon RX 9000M series "RDNA 4" laptop GPUs will arrive in 6 variants ranging from the flagship Radeon RX 9080M with 16GB of VRAM, down to the Radeon RX 9060S with 8GB of VRAM.

AMD will reportedly launch two cards based on the Navi 48 GPU with the Radeon RX 9080M with 16GB VRAM and the Radeon RX 9070M with 8GB of VRAM, while Navi 44 powers the RX 9070M XT with 12GB, RX 9070S with 8GB, RX 9060M with 8GB, and the RX 9060S with 8GB. The S variants are low-power models, similar to how NVIDIA does it with its Max-Q laptop GPU variants.

NVIDIA has supposedly set a launch date for the RTX 5060 vanilla version, and the GPU is apparently going to debut on May 19.

That's according to VideoCardz, which tapped its sources to discover that this is the intended release timeframe which is being communicated by NVIDIA to its third-party graphics card making partners.

If this speculation is correct, it means that the RTX 5060 is only just over three weeks away.

Colorful's latest flagship GPU, the new COLORFUL iGame GeForce RTX 5080 Vulcan W, incorporates a four-fan cooling system and a 5th-generation iGame Smart LCD screen into its "snow-white armor" design. It marks the second four-fan GPU design this year, with the fan setup reminiscent of ASUS's new flagship Astral line-up for the GeForce RTX 50 Series.

We never expected to see quad-fan cooling, but with the new iGame GeForce RTX 5080 Vulcan W and the ASUS Astral, we'll probably start to see more of it. However, it will probably be limited to high-end GPUs like the GeForce RTX 5080, which deliver impressive 4K gaming, productivity, and AI performance.

The fourth fan on the COLORFUL iGame GeForce RTX 5080 Vulcan W is mounted on the backplate. The overall design maintains the same 3.5-slot thickness found on many high-end premium GPUs.

Images of PowerColor Radeon RX 9070 GRE Red Devil and PowerColor Radeon RX 9070 GRE Reaper GPUs have made their way online (via Videocardz), pointing to an imminent release for what could be the third RDNA 4 GPU to hit the market.

Usually, the GRE or Great Radeon Edition cards hit the Chinese market first, and that's expected to be the case here. With both images showcasing retail packaging alongside the GPU designs (these are the exact sort of images that show up on retail listings), this third Radeon RX 9070 GPU will reportedly hit the market before the rumored June launch for the mainstream Radeon RX 9060 XT.

Regarding performance, the Radeon RX 9070 GRE will sit between the Radeon RX 9060 XT and the Radeon RX 9070 and will ship with 12GB of GDDR6 memory on a 192-bit bus. Previous reports indicated that the Radeon RX 9070 GRE launch was pushed back to Q4 2025. However, Videocardz's sources state this isn't the case.