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NVIDIA's next-generation flagship GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card could cost somewhere between $1999 and $2499, according to the latest leaks.

In his latest video, Tom from Moore's Law is Dead said that one of his sources just said that NVIDIA briefed them with some new GeForce RTX 50 series "Blackwell" gaming GPU pricing. This source said that the new RTX 50 series GPUs will be launching in 2025, and are preparing people with some higher pricing.

NVIDIA's flagship GeForce RTX 5090 32GB could cost between $1999 and $2499, the GeForce RTX 5080 16GB could cost between $1199 and $1499, and finally, the GeForce RTX 5070 12GB costing between $599 and $699.

NVIDIA will reportedly unveil its new GeForce RTX 5070 graphics card with 12GB of GDDR7 memory on a 192-bit memory bus at CES 2025 in just a few month's time.

According to our friends over at Wccftech, the upcoming GeForce RTX 5070 will feature the GB205 "Blackwell" GPU with 12GB of GDDR7 memory clocked at 28Gbps on a 192-bit memory bus that will push out up to 672GB/sec of memory bandwidth. This means the new RTX 5070 has 33% more memory bandwidth than the current-gen RTX 4070 and RTX 4070 SUPER graphics cards.

We're expecting to see the RTX 5070 with a 250W TBP, which is a 14% increase in power over the RTX 4070 SUPER with a 220W TBP.

NVIDIA's next-gen GeForce RTX 5080 is expected to feature the fastest GDDR7 memory modules available, at 32Gbps, giving its 16GB of GDDR7 up to a crazy 1TB/sec of memory bandwidth.

In previous rumors we heard similar: that NVIDIA's upcoming GeForce RTX 5080 would feature 16GB of GDDR7 but we didn't know if it was 28Gbps or 32Gbps GDDR7 modules. But now, our friends over at Wccftech have talked with their sources that have confirmed the GeForce RTX 5080 will feature 16GB of GDDR7 at 32Gbps, which is 4Gbps faster than the 28Gbps GDDR7 modules on the flagship GeForce RTX 5090.

This means that the GeForce RTX 5080 with 16GB of GDDR7 at 32Gbps on a 256-bit memory bus will spit out a rather hefty 1TB/sec of memory bandwidth, matching the previous-gen flagship GeForce RTX 4090. It's also a gigantic leap over the RTX 4080 which features 16GB of GDDR6X at 23Gbps (RTX 4080 = 23Gbps, RTX 5080 = 32Gbps).

With the latest Amazon Prime Day sales underway, you can find several great deals on various PC hardware and peripherals, including GPUs. As of writing, you save a few dollars off the MSRP of most GeForce RTX 40 Series and Radeon RX 7000 Series cards - from the GeForce RTX 4060 up to 4K enthusiast options like the Radeon RX 7900 XTX.

However, after reviewing most of the Prime Day GPU deals, the following two stood out for obvious reasons. First up is the MSI GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER Ventus 3X OC, an upgrade to the original RTX 4070 Ti that features 16GB of fast GDRR6X memory. Its Prime Day discount brings the price down to $749.99 USD from $839.99 - an 11% saving and one of the lowest prices we've seen for the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER, especially for an OC model.

The GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER is a powerful GPU that excels at 1440p and 4K gaming with ray-tracing, DLSS, and Frame Generation. And MSI's Ventus 3X variant runs quiet and cool even when stressed, which we highlighted in our review.

AMD has just unveiled its new Radeon PRO V710 GPU which has been designed for the visual cloud business, including Microsoft Azure, packing the Navi 32 GPU and 28GB of GDDR6 memory.

The new AMD Radeon PRO V710 features the Navi 32 chip which is based on the RDNA 3 GPU architecture, so we're talking about the same level of GPU performance that we see on the consumer side of things with the Radeon RX 7700 XT graphics card with 54 Compute Units (CUs), 3456 Stream Processors, a 2GHz GPU peak clock, and up to 55.3 TFLOPs of FP16 and up to 27.65 TFLOPs of FP32 compute performance.

We have 28GB of GDDR6 memory on an interestingly spread 224-bit memory bus, providing up to 448GB/sec of memory bandwidth with 54MB of Infinity Cache. This is compared to the RX 7700 XT which features 12GB of GDDR6 on a 192-bit memory bus.

NVIDIA's CEO Jensen Huang has just been announced as delivering a keynote at CES 2025 which is widely expected to be the event where Team Green reveals its next-gen Blackwell GeForce GPUs.

So, what's the time and date you need to mark in your diary for finally finding out exactly how powerful the NVIDIA RTX 5090 is - and likely the RTX 5080 too? Scribble down Monday, January 6, at 6.30pm (PDT).

Gary Shapiro, CEO of the Consumer Technology Association (which organizes CES) enthused: "We are thrilled to welcome Jensen Huang as a keynote speaker at CES 2025. Jensen is a true visionary in the tech industry. His insights and innovations improve the world, enhance the economy, and will inspire our CES audience."

AMD has added a new feature to its tools for game developers using the Radeon Developer Tools suite. It's called Driver Experiments, and it gives developers low-level control of AMD's graphics driver to improve troubleshooting and assist with optimizing games for PC.

With a Radeon RX 5000, 6000, or 7000 Series GPU, Windows, and a recent version of AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition, developers can access graphics settings at the driver level to identify bugs or areas that require additional work to improve performance.

For example, developers can disable individual settings such as ray-tracing support, mesh shaders, GPU work graphs, shader caches, vertical sync, and more. "Driver Experiments expose lower-level controls of the graphics driver that may influence the behavior, performance, or even stability of an application," AMD writes. "So they should be only used carefully and consciously by graphics programmers."

GeForce RTX 4090 stock is dwindling, which has caused prices to rise for NVIDIA flagship graphics card. This does not require insider knowledge; it can be seen with retailers listing fewer and fewer cards with increasingly higher prices. Last month, we reported that the RTX 4090 was sold out in many locations across Germany and Austria.

Switching to rumor and insider knowledge that arrives via the Chinese Board Channels forum, it's been reported that NVIDIA has communicated to its partners that GeForce RTX 4090 production will cease by October 2024. The stock will run out by the end of October or sometime in November, so there won't be any left for NVIDIA's partners looking to sell more RTX 4090s.

In addition, a more recent Board Channels post indicates that GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER production will also cease at the end of this month, which means all flagship GeForce RTX 40 Series hardware will become scarce by the end of 2024.

You've probably noticed that AMD's current-gen graphics cards have been getting a lot of discounts lately across the mid-to-higher-end models.

So, is now the time to pounce on the RDNA 3 model you've been eyeing for a while? Well, perhaps - but maybe not, we'd suggest.

Before we get into that though, what about those discounts themselves? The latest deal we've seen is the flagship of the RDNA 3 family getting reduced by $60 at Newegg so it's $870 - this is the XFX Speedster Merc310 version of the RX 7900 XTX (as VideoCardz noticed), and it comes with a two game bundle (Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 and Unknown 9: Awakening).

When it launched last year, the AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT felt like a GPU that didn't make much sense. With a price that was only $50 lower than the Radeon RX 7800 XT, you would be better off spending just that little bit extra for around 15% more performance. The good news is that AMD eventually lowered the price, and we're now at the point where this Radeon RX 7700 XT deal is one of the best we've seen in a while.

For $349.99 USD, you can pick up the PowerColor Fighter Radeon RX 7700 XT 12GB graphics card. This is not only $100 cheaper than the card's original launch price, but it's also around $50 cheaper than the current MSRP of $399.99 USD. What makes this deal even better is that it's eligible for the current AMD Game Bundle for Ryzen and Radeon products.

So, in addition to the great price, you also get two free games: Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 and Unknown 9: Awakening.

NVIDIA will be launching its next-generation Blackwell-based GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop GPU with a huge 24GB of ultra-fast GDDR7 memory on a 256-bit memory in late Q1 2025, or early Q2 2025 according to the latest rumors.

In his latest video, Tom from Moore's Law is Dead said that one of his best sources told him: "We're now conducting validation of the top Laptop GB203 configuration, and it has a ~377mm² die size and 24GB of GDDR7 memory over a 256-bit bus. What's interesting, is that I've seen no mention of a 16GB variant of this configuration for Laptop, and also that it's apparently targeting a Late Q1 or Early Q2 2025 launch".

NVIDIA's next-gen desktop GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card had specs leaked out last week, pointing to an absolute monster graphic card with 21,760 CUDA cores, 32GB of GDDR7 on an ultra-wide 512-bit memory bus that will provide up to 2TB/sec of memory bandwidth, chewing down up to 600W of power.

AMD's RX 7900 XT graphics card has dropped in price, and you can now bag one model for $659.

This is the XFX Speedster MERC310 Radeon RX 7900 XT and it has been dropped to that price level on both Amazon and Newegg, at the time of writing anyway (as noticed by VideoCardz).

That said, it should be noted that these graphics cards are not being sold directly by the retailers themselves.

MSI teased its new GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER STALKER 2 graphics card last week, but now we've got some more deets: you get a FREE copy of STALKER 2: Heart of Chernobyl bundled with the card.

Now we've got a look at the retail packaging for the MSI GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER STALKER 2 graphics card, and a closer look at the tweaked graphics card itself. MSI is using a military green color theme with a brushed metal finish, with 3 stripes running through the design (an MSI thing) with small nuclear / radiation symbol decals.

MSI isn't changing the physical design of the new RTX 4070 Ti SUPER STALKER 2 from its GAMING SLIM model (you can see its a GAMING SLIM model on the retail package, next to the FREE copy of STALKER 2: Heart of Chernobyl). It's not the first customized graphics card from MSI (and it won't be the last) as the company has used its GAMING SLIM family for custom World of Warcraft, Black Myth: Wukong, and Monster Hunter-themed graphics cards.

Rumors are filtering out that NVIDIA is going to cease supply of the chips for its RTX 4060 and RTX 4060 Ti graphics cards, but this situation isn't nearly as serious as it sounds at first.

Wccftech flagged up a post from the Board Channels over in China which carries the claim that there will be a temporary halt to the supply of the chips for these RTX 4060 models.

The key point here, though - assuming this rumor is correct in the first place, and it may just be hot air - is the word 'temporary,' because this is just an apparent pause in production.

GeForce Game Ready Driver 565.90 WHQL is here. It supports three new October games - MechWarrior 5: Clans, Starship Troopers: Extermination, and the new free-to-play MMO Throne and Liberty - all of which are launching with DLSS Super Resolution, DLSS 3 Frame Generation, and NVIDIA Reflex.

Throne and Liberty is a spiritual successor to the popular Lineage from developers NCSoft and Amazon Games. It's set in a massive open world and features impressive art direction and visuals, which can be accelerated with DLSS 3. NVIDIA notes that when played in 4K, performance increased by an average of 2.6X, which means the GeForce RTX 4070 can play with max settings.

If you drop the resolution to 1440p, and with DLSS 3, the entire GeForce RTX 40 Series can hit a smooth 60+ FPS with max settings. Check out NVIDIA's DLSS 3 trailer for Throne and Liberty above to see the game in action.

NVIDIA released another major update to the NVIDIA App, which is still in Beta. The app, which replaces the aging NVIDIA Control Panel and the GeForce Experience app, continues to add more features. With this latest announcement, the company confirms that it will be exiting Beta before the end of the year - while confirming the GeForce Experience app's days are numbered.

"We intend to migrate all remaining GeForce Experience users to the new NVIDIA app when it exits beta before the end of the year," NVIDIA explains. "In future updates, we'll continue to add the remaining NVIDIA Control Panel options, with the goal of unifying the NVIDIA Control Panel and GeForce Experience's key features in one app, boasting new features and additional enhancements that deliver an even better experience for our users."

Fans of GeForce Experience might not be happy with this news, but from our experience, the NVIDIA App has been a massive improvement. Here's what's been added in the latest update.

The Steam Hardware and Survey results for September 2024 are in, and it is no surprise that NVIDIA is dominating the PC, laptop, and handheld GPU market. This fresh data from Valve reinforces recent reporting that showed NVIDIA's lead with PC gamers has been growing in recent years - it's now sitting on a 77.75% market share.

The September results show that NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4060 line-up is currently the most popular GPU once you add all the variants. This includes the desktop GeForce RTX 4060, which has climbed to the number two spot behind the GeForce RTX 3060, the GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU in third place, and the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti desktop card in fourth place.

And with the GeForce RTX 4070 also making the top ten and no sign of a mid-range or entry-level Radeon GPU until you reach number 34, it's a little concerning. As one generation of hardware ends and a new one begins, will we see a change?

NVIDIA never manifested the GeForce RTX 4090 Ti into reality, tapping out with the RTX 4090... but we kept hearing about the unreleased GPU and now we've got the IO bracket for the RTX 4090 Ti up for sale.

If the company had released the GeForce RTX 4090 Ti, it would've rocked the full-fat AD102 GPU that would've been binned to the extreme, with what would've been something like a 600W+ power draw. We saw teases of a monster quad-slot cooler in its prototype stage, using a non-traditional cooling and PCB setup that would've made it a very hard sell to consumers.

But now, leaker "Harukaze5719" saw a listing on a third-party seller in China called Taobao, which has an IO bracket that reportedly is for the unreleased GeForce RTX 4090 Ti with the IO bracket reading "GeForce RTX 4090 Ti" with a model number of "PG136F".

Thermal Grizzly has launched its innovative WireView Pro GPU device, which we first saw at Computex 2024. This device protects your graphics card from potential damage by measuring and monitoring temperature and power directly at the connection point.

This device exists because the GeForce RTX 40 Series introduced the new 12VHPWR power connector. At launch, there were reports of issues with connectors and cables melting when improperly seated or connected to a high-powered GPU like the GeForce RTX 4090.

The move from multiple 8-pin power connectors to a new 16-pin connector, which has now been revised and refined with the new 12V-2x6 connector, is part of the new ATX 3.1 and PCIe Gen6 standard, so it's here to stay. This makes the WireView Pro GPU a very handy device.

NVIDIA has been dominating the GPU business for over 20 years now, and with some new data from 3DCenter, we get an even clearer picture of Team Green's dominance.

NVIDIA has had the most GPU market share since 2002 and has slowly clawed more and more away from AMD -- Intel isn't even in the picture here, and no one is surprised by that (integrated GPUs don't count here). You can see from 3DCenter's data that NVIDIA really started to ramp things up with the GeForce 500 series GPUs in 2010.

But from there, the crypto mining boom post-GeForce GTX 10 series GPUs and into the RTX 20 and RTX 30 series GPUs saw NVIDIA pull away from AMD big time. Since 2020, you can see that AMD has just continued to dwindle in discrete GPU market share, with the RDNA 3-based Radeon RX 7000 series GPUs falling on their face -- in fact, after the launch of the Radeon RX 7000 series GPUs, AMD is experiencing its lowest point in discrete GPU market share. Ouch.