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AMD's next-gen Radeon RX 8800 XT graphics card has reportedly appeared on Reddit in the form of an advertising campaign on the site by AMD... flagship RDNA 4 might have just been teased.

The purported Radeon RX 8800 XT graphics card has a triple-fan design with a sleek black and silver aesthetic, with an LED--illuminated Radeon logo on the side. The purported RX 8800 XT is sitting alongside a Ryzen 9 series processor, so we should expect Zen 5 + RDNA 4 combos in 2025.

We don't know of the ad is still running on Reddit, as it could've been taken down by AMD... if it is real, a ninja reveal like this with an "oops, uhhh we made a mistake and now we'll pull this ad" makes sense, as AMD is going to need everything it can get to begin to fight off the tidal wave of NVIDIA's next-gen GeForce RTX 50 series "Blackwell" GPUs at CES 2025, when RDNA 4 is unveiled.

NVIDIA will reportedly launch its new GeForce RTX 5080 16GB graphics card first, with the ultra-enthusiast GeForce RTX 5090 32GB launches after.

In a new post from Wccftech, we're learning that after the CES 2025 reveal of NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX 50 series "Blackwell" desktop gaming GPUs, the second-fastest card -- the RTX 5080 16GB -- will launch first. NVIDIA is expected to announce the GeForce RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 at CES 2025, alongside the RTX 5070 series (RTX 5070 Ti + RTX 5070) and then the RTX 5060 comes later.

The first Blackwell gaming GPU to launch will be the GeForce RTX 5080 which will feature 16GB of new GDDR7 memory clocked at up to 32Gbps (30Gbps is expected) on a 256-bit memory bus, which will result in up to 960GB/sec of memory bandwidth, which means the RTX 5080 has virtually as much memory bandwidth as the current-gen flagship RTX 4090 24GB.

NVIDIA's next-gen GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop GPU is rumored to be around 40-60% faster than the current-gen RTX 4080 Laptop GPU, according to the latest leaks. Let's go:

In his new video, leaker Moore's Law is Dead says his NVIDIA source told him: "By the way, this December we've been validating a GN22 X9 sample that has 16GB of GDDR7, a 175W max TGP, and 7680 CUDA cores. This definitely seems like the RTX 5080 Laptop Edition, and it should be 40-60% faster than the current RTX 4080 Laptop GPU".

We've been hearing more and more about NVIDIA's next-gen GeForce RTX 50 Laptop GPUs lately, with ASUS's next-gen ROG gaming laptops featuring the new RTX 5090 Laptop GPU, RTX 5080 Laptop GPU, and RTX 5070 Ti Laptop GPU in 2025.

NVIDIA's next-gen GPU range creeps ever nearer, and as is par for the course, the RTX 5000 leaks are also coming hot on each other's heels now - and here's another one.

This time, we've got a whole range of potential Blackwell GPUs aired by Palit, which just filed a host of models with the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC), as flagged up by leaker @momomo_us on X.

Typically, these filings indicate that upcoming products are near, and may also give us a clue as to what launches we'll see - but in this case, Palit has gone for a spray-and-pray approach, quite clearly.

NVIDIA has unveiled the contents of a Diablo IV-themed mystery box as part of the company's celebratory "GeForce Greats" event.

NVIDIA took to its official GeForce X account to unveil the new mystery box will contain five items, which starts off with a GeForce RTX 4080 Super that comes with a Diablo IV-themed backplate, a copy of the Diablo IV Collector's Edition, a Diablo III-themed chess set, a sealed copy of Diablo II, and a GeForce 256 signed by NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang. Notably, the GeForce 256 was marketed as "the world's first GPU," or Graphics Processing Unit, and its emergence on the market resulted in a significant leap in 3D PC gaming performance.

The giveaway is one of many NVIDIA is hosting for its GeForce Greats event, which is designed to increase hype leading up to CES 2025, where it's slated to unveil its new generation of RTX graphics cards, the RTX 50 series, utilizing the new Blackwell architecture. Leading up to CES 2025 and NVIDIA's big announcement, the company will be doing many more of these franchise or video game-themed mystery box giveaways, and judging on the contents of the Diablo IV mystery box, gamers can expect similar contents for future mystery boxes.

PowerColor is reportedly cooking up its new GPU series for AMD's upcoming Radeon RX 8000 series "RDNA 4" graphics card launch, with a new "Reaper" series card.

In a new post from VideoCardz, the rumor outlet said their sources told them that PowerColor would be introducing a new Reaper GPU series for the launch of AMD's upcoming Radeon RX 8000 series "RDNA 4" launch. PowerColor has its Devil, Hellhound, and Fighter models but the new Reaper series will debut with RDNA 4.

VC says that its source is not confirming the names of the SKUs, but we should be looking at the new RDNA 4-powered Radeon RX 8800 and Radeon RX 8600 graphics cards, which we've bene hearing more and more about lately with rumors. PowerColor's new Radeon RX 8000 series "Reaper" graphics cards are expected to debut for both the Radeon RX 8800 and Radeon RX 8600, says VideoCardz.

The GeForce RTX 50 Series leaks are coming in thick and fast, and with this latest one from Acer (via Videocardz), it looks like the GeForce RTX 5080 and GeForce RTX 5090 will both be in full force at CES 2025 in January.

This time, the leaks surround the pre-built Acer Predator Orion 7000 desktop PCs, which include Intel's latest Core Ultra 200 Series processors. With access to leaked data sheets for new Predator Orion 7000 variants with GeForce RTX 50 Series graphics, we've got more confirmation on the memory configuration for the RTX 5080 and RTX 5090.

As rumored and previously leaked, the GeForce RTX 5090 will feature 32GB of GDDR7 memory, while the GeForce RTX 5080 will feature 16GB of GDDR7 memory. With both of these models expected to launch sometime in January, there's a good chance CES 2025 attendees can get hands-on with these stylish new rigs on the show floor.

NVIDIA is preparing to formally announce its new GeForce RTX 50 Series at CES 2025 in a couple of weeks, with the GeForce RTX 5070, RTX 5070 Ti, RTX 5080, and flagship GeForce RTX 5090 set to be unveiled. Multiple leaks from NVIDIA's partners have confirmed this lineup, and a new leak from INNO3D hints at a revolutionary AI-powered technology coming along with more.

This is our first glimpse at what could be DLSS 4, with the information from INNO3D covering what to expect with the GeForce RTX 50 Series and its AI capabilities for gaming and content creation. According to INNO3D, the GeForce RTX 50 Series will feature Neural Rendering Capabilities, revolutionizing how "graphics are processed and displayed."

This is in addition to DLSS offering "even better image quality and higher frame rates" and enhanced ray tracing with improved RT cores. It doesn't stop there, as the next generation of GeForce RTX graphics cards will also be leveraging AI to improve power efficiency and thermal performance when gaming.

NVIDIA is expected to debut its second-fastest next-gen GeForce RTX 50 series GPU with faster GDDR7 memory, with the new GeForce RTX 5080 expected to feature 16GB of GDDR7 memory at 32Gbps.

In a new post by Benchlife, we're learning that the faster 30Gbps GDDR7 memory modules will be used on the RTX 5080, after previous rumors said they'd use (even faster) 32Gbps GDDR7 memory. This means that NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX 5080 with 16GB of GDDR7 at 30Gbps on a 256-bit memory bus will provide 960GB/sec of memory bandwidth, close to the flagship RTX 4090.

NVIDIA's current-gen GeForce RTX 4080 features 716GB/sec of memory bandwidth, while the RTX 4080 SUPER features a slightly faster 736GB/sec memory bandwidth, so the RTX 5080 with 960GB/sec memory bandwidth means it'll only have 5% slower memory bandwidth than the current-gen RTX 4090 (which has a much wider memory bus, too).

NVIDIA's incoming RTX 5080 will benefit from the fastest video RAM of the entire next-gen Blackwell range, going by a fresh leak.

This comes from Benchlife as highlighted by Harukaze5719 on X (hat tip to VideoCardz), and the theory is that the RTX 5080 will have 16GB of GDDR7 - as previously rumored - but it'll be 30Gbps memory.

All the other RTX 5000 models, including the flagship RTX 5090, are set to use the standard 28Gbps flavor of GDDR7. So, the RTX 5080 is going to be unique in that respect.

The YouTube channel Budget-Builds Official got its hands on a budget GeForce RTX 4010 graphics card to put it to the test. The only problem is that the GeForce RTX 4010 doesn't exist because it's not a real NVIDIA GeForce RTX option for desktops. With the card shipped from China, it turns out that it's a working GPU that delivers surprisingly impressive performance.

And no, it's not an unannounced RTX 4010; it's something else. Shenzen Bitland created the "RTX 4010" compact single-slot GPU with a simple blower-fan design. Surprisingly, the GPU works when connected to a PC, even if it requires a dated VGA cable. As seen in the full video breakdown, GPU-Z cannot detect the GPU (naturally); however, it does confirm that it features 4GB of GDDR6 memory on a 64-bit bus.

With unoptimized but working GeForce drivers (using a version designed for the RTX 4090D), the "GeForce RTX 4010" is a repurposed Ampere-based RTX A400 workstation graphics card. And one that does an okay job playing some modern PC games.

With a recent unintentional leak from ZOTAC GAMING confirming that NVIDIA is on the cusp of announcing four GeForce RTX 50 Series graphics cards at CES 2025, from the GeForce RTX 5070 up to the flagship GeForce RTX 5090, we've now got some early info on NVIDIA's more mainstream Blackwell cards courtesy of Wccftech.

The report, citing sources, details the memory configuration and chips used in the upcoming mainstream PC gaming GeForce RTX 5060 and GeForce RTX 5060 Ti combo. According to the report, both GPUs will use the same GB206 core with a high-speed GDDR7 memory interface on a 128-bit bus. The shift to GDDR7 will increase memory bandwidth by up to 65% compared to the GeForce RTX 4060, so we can expect a decent improvement over current-gen performance.

Where it gets interesting is VRAM capacity, especially in light of NVIDIA releasing two versions of the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti - an 8GB and 16GB model - and the recent launch of the mainstream Intel Arc B580 'Battlemage' GPU which includes 12GB of GDDR6 memory.

ZOTAC is gearing up for the release of the GeForce RTX 50 series GPUs from NVIDIA, with some confirmation on that monster 32GB of ultra-fast GDDR7 memory that is expected to power the flagship GeForce RTX 5090.

The company has added new filters to its graphics card category, where you can now select GDDR7 and up to 32GB capacity, something that wasn't available for the RTX 40 series. We've heard rumors of NVIDIA using a huge 32GB of GDDR7 memory on its flagship RTX 5090, and this is all but now confirmed.

ZOTAC has listed a bunch of NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX 50 series "Blackwell" gaming GPUs, starting with the GeForce RTX 5090, but also includes the RTX 5090D, RTX 5080, RTX 5070 Ti, and RTX 5070. We don't know details from ZOTAC on the other cards apart from the VRAM capacity, but we're only weeks from the official reveal at CES 2025 next year.

Nothing is official about the GeForce RTX 5090, NVIDIA's upcoming flagship gaming graphics card for the GeForce RTX 50 Series. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang will host the company's live CES 2025 keynote on January 6. We're expected to get a full announcement, reveal, technical breakdown, release date, and pricing for the first batch of GeForce RTX 50 Series cards on that date.

However, this hasn't stopped a flood of leaks from various sources confirming the specs and relative performance that we can expect regarding the GeForce RTX 5090. With sources pointing to over 20,000 CUDA Cores, 32GB of GDDR7 memory, and next-gen Blackwell architecture, the RTX 5090 is rumored to deliver up to 60 to 70% more performance than the current GeForce RTX 4090 flagship.

One rumor that multiple sources have confirmed over the past several months has been the GeForce RTX 5090's power consumption. Rated at 600W, the RTX 5090 is rumored to draw over 33% more power than the RTX 4090.

Intel launched its first 'Battlemage' GPU last week, with the new mainstream Intel Arc B580 card priced at a competitive $249.99 USD. As seen in our reviews of the Intel Arc B580 Limited Edition and ASRock Intel Arc B580 Steel Legend OC variant, Intel's second-generation desktop Arc Graphics is a winner.

Not only has the Arc team resolved most of the driver, compatibility, and stability issues that plagued the first-gen launch back in 2022, but it has brought some real competition to the mainstream GPU market with a product that is cheaper and more powerful than both the GeForce RTX 4060 and Radeon RX 7600. In fact, with excellent ray tracing performance and 12GB of VRAM, it makes the Radeon RX 7600 look irrelevant.

This is great news for PC gamers looking to create an affordable rig; however, it is not so great when it's sold out at major retailers like Newegg and Amazon - with resupply not expected until January 2025.

CD Projekt Red brought a stunning six-minute cinematic reveal trailer for The Witcher 4 to The Game Awards, which you can watch below in 4K. We've known for a while that the talented studio was moving away from its internal Red Engine for the next Witcher, with the highly anticipated game utilizing Unreal Engine 5.

The Witcher IV - Cinematic Reveal Trailer

For those who noted the text at the bottom of the frame, CD Projekt Red notes that the pre-rendered trailer was created in Unreal Engine 5 with an "unannounced NVIDIA GeForce RTX GPU." Although not rendered in real-time, the action is incredibly detailed, with stunning art direction and characters.

AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 24.12.1 WHQL driver for Radeon owners is here, and it seems Team Red is playing a little catch-up as it includes new game support for several high-profile releases that have been out for weeks - including Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, Dragon Age: The Veilguard, and S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl.

New game support often means performance optimizations and stability tweaks, which is why major driver updates arrive in time for new releases. In addition to the games mentioned above, Adrenalin Edition 24.12.1 also adds support for Marvel Rivals, Slitterhead, and Detal Force.

Outside of game-specific support, the latest driver is good news for AI developers as it brings official support for Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL 2), which allows AMD ROCm software development on Windows systems. Hit the jump for the full AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 24.12.1 Release Notes.

This week, Intel officially announced the first Xe2 'Battlemage' desktop graphics card, the Intel Arc B580, which will launch on December 13, 2024. With a wallet-friendly price point of $249 USD, 12GB of VRAM, and 1440p performance that outclasses the GeForce RTX 4060, it will be an interesting addition to the GPU landscape when it debuts.

In a new hourlong interview on PCWorld's The Full Nerd Podcast, Intel's Tom Petersen confirmed that even though the first second-gen Xe2 desktop GPU product is a week away from launch, the Arc team has already finalized the Xe3 'Celestial' architecture and is already working on Xe4. Now, it's up to the software team to ensure that drivers are ready for Xe3's launch.

"Our architects are way ahead of us and they are already working on not the next thing but the next thing after the next thing," Tom Petersen confirms.

AMD has confirmed that the first two RDNA 4 GPUs, the Radeon RX 8600 and Radeon RX 8800, will launch in early 2025. Both appeared in a recent update to AMD's ROCm (Radeon Open Compute) software libraries, and the GPUs were spotted in the codebase over at GitHub (which has since been removed).

To clarify, this isn't an official announcement from AMD representatives or a mention of these GPUs in a press release - but it's a clear indicator that RDNA 4 is going to get one or multiple SKUs in the Radeon RX 8600 and Radeon RX 8800 line-ups. If we had to take an educated guess, the actual SKUs would be the Radeon RX 8600 for the mainstream market and the Radeon RX 8800 XT for the mid-range market.

The references to "gfx12_rx8800," "gfx12_rx8600," and "nav4x arch" confirm that these are RDNA 4 cards in the next-gen Navi 4X series, which is expected to be formally announced at CES 2025. We've heard about the Radeon RX 8800 XT for a while, which makes the Radeon RX 8600 very interesting.

Jon Peddie Research has published its Q3 2024 GPU shipment report, seeing 73.6 million GPUs shipped in the three-month period, with PC CPU shipments increasing to 66.5 million units.

According to JPR, GPUs will have a compound annual growth rate of -1.9% from 2025 to 2028, reaching an install base of close to 3 billion units by the end of this period. Over the next 4 years, JPR predicts that the penetration of discrete GPUs inside of PCs will reach 17%.

Dr. Jon Peddie, president of Jon Peddie Research said: "A surge led to the jump in overall GPU and CPU shipments in Q3. AMD and Intel released new CPUs, and there was some pent-up demand for them. However, looking forward, we think that if the proposed tariffs are imposed, the PC market will suffer a recession due to increased prices and unmatched increases in income".