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Although its internal custom GPUs are designed and built for its Legion PC gaming systems, LENOVO is expanding its offerings by introducing its first RDNA 4-powered custom graphics cards with the LENOVO Legion Radeon RX 9070 XT. This new GPU is included as an option for the 2025 Blade 7000P Mobile on Desktop (MoDT) gaming PC, which pairs desktop graphics with an AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D or Ryzen 9 8945HX mobile processor.

The GPU sports a similar design to the company's custom GeForce RTX 50 Series cards, resembling a stylish triple-slot brushed metal brick with RGB lighting on the side. Spec-wise, LENOVO's variant appears to be based on AMD's reference design, featuring a Boost Clock speed of 2970 MHz and 16GB of GDDR6 memory on a 256-bit interface.

This isn't the first time LENOVO has offered Radeon products as part of its PC line-up; however, it's the first time the company is offering AMD's flagship offering, as the Radeon RX 9070 XT is currently the most powerful Radeon gaming option on the market.

For PC gaming and hardware enthusiasts, it's relatively common knowledge that NVIDIA's flagship GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card is restricted for sale in China. This means that NVIDIA's partners are unable to export this particular RTX Blackwell GPU to the region, which is why the GeForce RTX 5090D and RTX 5090D V2 GPUs were created. These China-only cut-down models comply with the US government-based export restrictions and controls on GPUs that can be sold in China.

And this is why a recent Reddit post showcasing a picture that claims to be from China has gone viral. The image shows pellets full of brand-new GeForce RTX 5090 graphics cards, the full-fat restricted versions, with what appears to be hundreds of cards. And to top it off, they're all MSI models, with the company's Ventus 3X and Gaming Trio variants clearly visible.

Since these GPU restrictions, which also cover AI and data center NVIDIA cards, went into place, there have been reports of companies and third parties circumventing the export restrictions. Allegedly, they are doing this by funneling GPUs into China via Singapore, and there are investigations underway. It's a sensitive topic, and with this new picture depicting hundreds of MSI-branded GeForce RTX 5090 GPUs making their way to China, the company has released a statement that says, no, it's not secretly selling RTX 5090s in the region.

Intel has announced its new Crescent Island GPU for data centers, featuring the next-gen Xe3P architecture, and up to 160GB of LPDDR5X memory for AI workloads.

The new Intel Crescent Island GPU is based on the new Xe3P architecture, which is the same GPU architecture that is going into Intel's next-gen Panther Lake laptop processors in 2026. Xe3P is another upgrade on top of the Xe3 GPU architecture, first inside of Crescent Island, and then on the consumer side with the new Arc C-series GPUs with Nova Lake next year.

Intel explains: "The new data center GPU code-named Crescent Island is being designed to be power and cost-optimized for air-cooled enterprise servers and to incorporate large amounts of memory capacity and bandwidth, optimized for inference workflows".

Intel's Panther Lake or Intel Core Ultra (Series 3) processors for laptops and handhelds are on the way, powered by the company's most advanced chip technology to date - Intel 18A. Intel notes that with improved performance and efficiency, Panther Lake will be able to deliver Lunar Lake levels of power efficiency with Arrow Lake-like performance.

Looking at the GPU side, which will be powered by Arc Graphics and the latest generation of Xe3 graphics, Panther Lake's top-end chip with 12 Xe Cores will reportedly deliver a 50% or 1.5X improvement over Lunar Lake with better support for ray-tracing, with Intel XeSS delivering its version of Multi Frame Generation optimized for portable devices.

With a reported 40% increase in performance-per-watt compared to Arrow Lake, and more Xe Cores to play with (Arrow Lake handhelds like the MSI Claw 8 AI+ feature a processor with 8 Xe Cores), the prospect of a high-end PC gaming handheld powered by Panther Lake and AI rendering could present a real alternative to AMD-powered handhelds like the ROG Xbox Ally X and Legion Go 2.

Using upscaling or 'Super Resolution' technologies like NVIDIA's DLSS, AMD's FSR, or Intel's XeSS is always a trade-off. You're essentially sacrificing visual quality and fidelity for improved performance, with the best examples actually delivering native-like or even better-than-native results thanks to advanced AI models.

NVIDIA's DLSS (especially the new DLSS 4) and AMD's FSR 4 are the two best examples of AI-powered upscaling for PC gaming; however, the latter is limited and exclusive to the new Radeon RX 9000 Series of GPUs due to its AI hardware requirement. This means RDNA 2 and RDNA 3 owners with a Radeon RX 6800 XT or Radeon RX 7800 XT are limited to using the inferior FSR 3.1, which delivers improved performance at the cost of image fidelity that's a step or two behind DLSS and FSR 4.

The good news is that, thanks to an unintended leak of FSR 4 code and files, an unofficial INT8 version of FSR 4 is circulating. It works on all Radeon GPUs, including RDNA 2 and RDNA 4 cards - but requires a bit of manual work. And with that, German outlet Computer Base has conducted an in-depth look at the performance and image quality of FSR 3 and FSR 4 running on three generations of Radeon hardware.

When NVIDIA shifted to the new 16-pin 12VHPWR power connector for the GeForce RTX 40 Series of desktop graphics cards, news of cables melting and GPUs being damaged began appearing online at a steady clip. The revamped 12V-2x6 design, introduced with the GeForce RTX 40 SUPER Series refresh and the new GeForce RTX 50 Series, saw a reduction in cases of 'GPU power cables melting'; however, instances still seem to appear as clockwork.

With only a handful of AMD's new RDNA 4-powered Radeon RX 9000 Series graphics cards adopting the new power connector, which delivers up to 600W over a single cable, it looks like we've got our second case of a Radeon GPU's power cable melting due to the new cable standard. The GPU in question is the impressive and sleek SAPPHIRE Radeon RX 9070 XT NITRO+, a premium model that adopts the new 16-pin power connector via an innovative hidden-cable design.

According to the report by Redditor 'e92justin,' the GPU was connected via a 3 x 8-pin power adapter connected to a 1000W Corsair power supply. Based on all of the investigations into the issue over the years, a faulty connection or improperly inserted cable could be the culprit. However, it's yet another case of the 12VHPWR and 12V-2x6 design power connector for modern GPUs failing, overheating, and effectively melting.

With a peak player count of almost 750,000 on Steam, odds are that if you're a fan of competitive shooters and jumping into the latest PC games, you've spent some time this past weekend playing Battlefield 6. And if you've been doing so on an AMD Radeon RX GPU, then you probably want to install the latest AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition Preview Driver.

AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 25.10.1 Battlefield 6 Preview Driver is the latest Radeon driver for PC gamers, explicitly built for Battlefield 6. In fact, that's the only thing listed in the release notes: new game support for Battlefield 6 running on DirectX 12. That's it, no bug fixes, no new issues, nothing else really. If you're not playing Battlefield 6 and have a Radeon GPU, you can skip this and wait for the next signed WHQL-certified driver release.

As one of the biggest releases of the year, outside of the seemingly poorly received campaign, Battlefield 6's massive multiplayer battles and large-scale destruction are proving to be a hit in ways that previous releases in the franchise (Battlefield 2042 and Battlefield 5) stumbled at launch.

GALAX has just unveiled its new single-slot GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB graphics card, which sports a blower-style cooler and is perfect for a SFF gaming rig. Check it out:

The new GALAX GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB MAX graphics card features a tight single-slot design, measuring just 20mm wide, with a single blower-style fan that pushes the hot air through a vapor chamber heatsink, using high-quality Honeywell Phase-Change TIM to make sure it can handle the 180W TDP of the RTX 5060 Ti GPU.

Inside, the new GALAX RTX 5060 Ti single-slot GPU features an 8-layer PCB with a 8+2 phase design, powered by a single 8-pin power connector, and uses the standard display configuration on the back with 3 x HDMI 2.1 ports and a single DisplayPort 2.1 connector.

Intel has discussed a little more about its Xe GPU architecture and its upcoming roadmap, with some confusing name changes on the way unfortunately.

During its Intel Tech Tour event, Intel unveiled a slide titled "GPU IP & Product Family Roadmap" which laid out its coming releases. There is a slide that includes all of the Xe GPU architectures: Alchemist discrete GPUs, Meteor Lake, Arrow Lake, and Lunar Lake CPUs, as well as its next-gen Panther Lake CPUs which will feature Xe3 GPU chiplets.

The naming scheme seems to be changing with Xe3, which isn't good to see as a few years ago when Intel announced its GPU roadmap, it was clear: Xe was Alchemist, Xe2 was Battlemage, Xe3 was Celestial, and Xe-Next was Druid. These names referred to discrete GPUs (Xe-HPG variants) that Intel was working on at the time, but now the company doesn't like to talk about discrete GPUs... it puts all of its focus on pushing SoCs (regular CPUs with integrated GPUs).

How much would you fork out for an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090? Probably a fair bit, and many gamers would leap at the chance to get one of these GPUs for not much more than a grand - a feat some lucky PC enthusiast managed recently.

Tom's Hardware reports that there have been two tales just shared on Reddit whereby people have managed to get an absolute bargain of an RTX 5090 at Walmart in the US - both of these being the PNY OC model.

First off, NestyHowk grabbed the PNY RTX 5090 for $1,399.99, an eye-opening saving of $600 on the normal price for the Blackwell flagship GPU.

AMD has scored one point over NVIDIA after company CEO Lisa Su confirmed that its next-generation MI450 AI accelerator will be built on a 2nm silicon process, beating NVIDIA's upcoming Vera Rubin architecture built on 3nm silicon.

Su confirmed the nanometer size in a recent interview with Yahoo Finance, where she was discussing the recent partnership announcement with ChatGPT-creator OpenAI. For those who don't know, OpenAI and AMD recently announced a new partnership that involves AMD providing OpenAI with its next-generation GPUs until it has completed the agreed-upon 1 gigawatt of power. In exchange, AMD will provide OpenAI with approximately 10% of its company.

During the interview, Su revealed that AMD's upcoming AI accelerator, scheduled for release in 2026, will utilize 2nm technology, which means it will leapfrog over 3nm. Notably, NVIDIA's upcoming next-generation AI GPU architecture, Vera Rubin, will utilize 3nm silicon, giving AMD a competitive edge over Team Green in this regard. Why does the nm matter? Typically, a reduction in silicon process size leads to performance gains in the form of increased efficiency and raw performance.

The latest GeForce RTX 50 Series game bundle is here, with NVIDIA offering a free Deluxe Edition copy of the highly anticipated multiplayer extraction shooter ARC Raiders with eligible purchases of desktop GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs and laptops with the latest GeForce RTX 50 Series Laptop GPUs.

ARC Raiders is set to launch on October 30 for PC and consoles, and looks to expand on the extraction shooter genre popularized by Escape from Tarkov and Hunt: Showdown by blending exploration and other elements from the adventure genre. It's set in a future where Earth has been overrun by deadly machines, with human Raiders (i.e., other players) also presenting a threat.

The PC version of the game is optimized to run on GeForce RTX hardware, with day-one support for DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation, NVIDIA Reflex, and cutting-edge ray-traced global illumination lighting effects. NVIDIA's DLSS 4 trailer for ARC Raiders shows performance hitting an impressive 400+ FPS in 4K, presumably running on a GeForce RTX 5090.

GIGABYTE's new AORUS RTX 5090 AI BOX is now out in the wild, and has been tested by Notebookcheck with some rather interesting results: it's up to 27% slower than a desktop RTX 5090. Let's dive into it.

Firstly, the new AORUS RTX 5090 AI BOX is a new external GPU solution running over the new Thunderbolt 5 standard, and while in theory the new TB5 standard is one of the fastest, this solution ends up with the same bandwidth as OCulink. Thunderbolt 5 does have some things going for it over OCulink, where it can transmit power (to charge your laptop and other devices over the TB5 port), and it can be daisy-chained and used for external monitors.

The new AORUS RTX 5090 AI BOX is available right now and costs $2999, matching the price of the AORUS RTX 5090 Master White Edition graphics card (at Newegg) so you're effectively getting a cool Thunderbolt 5 external enclosure for free. On the same day that GIGABYTE launched its new AORUS RTX 5090 AI BOX, Notebookcheck published their review and it has some fantastic performance information and testing to geek out over.

MaxSun has another announcement today, with new single-slot, liquid-cooled Intel Arc Pro B60 48GB graphics cards, which allow for huge 7-way GPU installations. Check it out:

MaxSun once again teamed with Japanese hardware manufacturer Abee to use its liquid cooling solution on its Intel Arc Pro B60 48GB card, with the normal Turbo Edition featuring a dual-slot cooling solution, the new Arc Pro B60 48G Liquid Edition is a nice-and-tight single-slot GPU solution.

The GPUs themselves have connectors for the liquid loop on the right, making sure the complete cooling setup can be installed easily inside of the Abee Designer C700W PC chassis. This chassis is the same one MaxSun is using for its new AI workstation -- which has 4 x Arc Pro B60 48GB Turbo GPUs installed -- but the new single-slot cards are an even better option for a truly insane workstation PC.

The high-end NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 series cards like the flagship RTX 5090 push that new 12V-2x6 power connector to its limit, flowing 575W+ of power through it, so adding an additional layer of protection could be a good move, and that's why this new $79 device can do.

Aqua Computer has introduced the new AMPINEL, a small dedicated hardware device for the 12V-2x6 power connector that both measures power, but also balances current flow and is capable of shutting down the GPU if those limits are exceeded. AMPINEL will continuously monitor all 6 lines of the connector, so that if the current rises on a single pin by above 7.5A, the device kicks in, redistributing load in real-time using a hybrid analog/digital control system (this is the hardware solution itself).

The new AMPINEL uses a six-layer PCB with thick copper traces for minimal loss, paired with black-anodized aluminum housing that double as a heatsink, while the connector itself is encapsulated for a stronger mechanical fit on your high-end GPU.

China has some very interesting custom and modded graphics cards, with a new one appearing: an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER graphics card with 32GB of GDDR6X, double the VRAM as the RTX 4080 SUPER ships with 16GB of VRAM.

These custom graphics cards are not official in any form, and they're not even made by legitimate manufacturers, with the sole purpose of their creation to unlock additional memory on graphics cards, when they're not used for gaming. This expanded VRAM capacity allows Chinese "startups" and AI farms to make cheaper RTX series GPUs for AI training, with more VRAM than their gaming counterparts.

NVIDIA released the GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER in January 2024 launching with 16GB of GDDR6X memory, the same VRAM capacity as the RTX 4080 non-SUPER, but the newer RTX 4080 SUPER uses faster GDDR6X memory chips with 23Gbps on the RTX 4080 SUPER and slightly slower 22.4Gbps G6X chips on the RTX 4080 non-SUPER. However, the new SUPER card has more CUDA cores and an increased TDP over the non-SUPER card.

Fengpo is a brand you've probably never heard of, but the Chinese company has just released a new GeForce RTX 3080 graphics card that rocks a larger 20GB of VRAM (RTX 3080 has 10GB) using a cooler from PNY's higher-end GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card. Check it out:

We reported all the way back in January 2021 that GeForce RTX 3080 engineering samples were discovered with 20GB of VRAM, and since then we've seen reports of RTX 3080 cards with 20GB surfacing... and now, Fengpo has officially launched a GeForce RTX 3080 graphics card with 20GB of VRAM.

In a new post on X by Uniko's Hardware, we're learning that Chinese content creator "GPU Girl" has benchmarked the RTX 3080 20GB graphics card, comparing it against the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB card in LM Studio.

Razer's new Core X V2 external Thunderbolt 5-powered GPU enclosure is now available on Amazon for $349.99, with a full Thunderbolt 5 port offering up to 64Gbps of bandwidth, all through a single cable into your laptop.

The new Razer Core X V2 external GPU enclosure might have a Thunderbolt 5 port, but you're limited to just PCIe 4.0 x4 speeds that are capped to 64Gbps, while the full bandwidth sits at 120Gbps in one direction, and 80Gbps bidirectionally.

But there are other improvements that Thunderbolt 5 delivers on this external GPU enclosure, like delivering up to 140W of power to the connected device that sees the data transfer handled, as well as charging for laptops, smartphones, and gaming handhelds.

The Steam Hardware & Software Survey results for September 2025 are in, and in the discrete GPU space, NVIDIA continues to dominate with 74% market share compared to just under 18% for AMD and around 8% for Intel. However, a significant portion of AMD and Intel's market share comes from integrated GPUs, as seen in AMD's latest Ryzen AI and Ryzen Z2 Extreme chips for laptops and gaming handhelds.

Examining the top 25 discrete graphics cards used by PC gamers on Steam reveals that they are all GeForce models, led by mainstream options such as the GeForce RTX 3060 and RTX 4060, entry-level models like the GeForce RTX 3050, and mid-range cards like the GeForce RTX 3070 and RTX 4070.

With NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 50 Series launching this year, led by the new flagship GeForce RTX 5090, every model is now listed in the Steam Hardware Survey, apart from the GeForce RTX 5050. Out of the full lineup, far and away the most popular card looks to be the GeForce RTX 5070, which has seen its market share grow to 1.62%.

GeForce Game Ready Driver 581.42 - WHQL is here, and it adds day one support for what is arguably one of the biggest PC game launches of the year, Battlefield 6. For GeForce RTX owners planning to pick up the latest installment in the acclaimed multiplayer shooter series, this is a must-install, as the game is set to utilize a wide range of RTX technology support.

Launching on October 10, Battlefield 6 is set to arrive with DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation and NVIDIA Reflex support on day one, as well as DLSS Frame Generation, DLSS Super Resolution, and DLAA support. "Using these technologies, all GeForce RTX gamers can accelerate and enhance their experience, making gameplay smoother and more responsive," NVIDIA writes.

In addition to the game's multiplayer modes, which led to the recent Battlefield 6 Open Beta becoming the largest in the franchise's history, the game is also set to include a single-player campaign. In addition to Battlefield 6, the latest GeForce Game Ready Driver also adds support for FBC: Firebreak's major Breakpoint update, fixes a few bugs, and expands Project G-Assist controls for laptops.