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COLORFUL has unveiled a new Limited Edition graphics card with a design inspired by the recent release of 007 First Light, the new James Bond action-adventure from the creators of the Hitman series, IO Interactive. The new, limited-edition COLORFUL iGame GeForce RTX 5070 Ultra OC x 007 First Light Edition features a black-and-gold look, with a custom backplate sporting the game's art, showcasing the titular character and the 007 logo.

This particular GPU design from the company is relatively new, as we recently reviewed the COLORFUL iGame GeForce RTX 5070 Ultra OC earlier this month. In our review, we highlighted the stylish design, excellent cooling, and impressive 1440p gaming performance. In 007 First Light form, the vibrant colors are replaced with darker tones and a more sophisticated look befitting the game and the character.

As an OC model, it ships with a Boost Clock speed of 2557 MHz, and even though it features a triple-fan cooler, the 314 x 135.2 x 50.4mm dimensions make it compact enough to fit in most cases and builds. COLORFUL hasn't confirmed availability or pricing for this new limited-edition graphics card, but it will be on display at the COLORFUL Showroom during Computex 2026.

Last year, AMD launched the Radeon RX 9070 GRE in China with a starting price of 4,199 yuan. Like other GRE cards before it, the launch was China-exclusive. However, rumors now suggest that AMD may be preparing to launch the graphics card globally.

Videocardz has obtained a picture of the English box art for a Sapphire Pulse version of the card, which immediately stands out since Sapphire typically uses Chinese product names for its China-market cards.

Adding weight to the rumor, Videocardz has also spotted Newegg listings for prebuilt systems featuring the Radeon RX 9070 GRE, alongside unofficial listings for the card itself. The PULSE and PURE RX 9070 GRE models are both listed on Newegg, though these are currently from Chinese third-party retailers rather than official US distributors. This suggests that these GPUs are already available to distributors and system integrators in the US.

Market pressure is finally softening for AMD's flagship RX 9070 XT, as sluggish demand forces retail prices to align more closely with MSRP. This downward shift, largely attributed to lackluster demand, has seen UK retailers list cards at around £600. Select variants in Japan have fallen below the ¥90,000 threshold, according to VideoCardz.

The RX 9070 XT had a rocky debut last year, struggling to meet AMD's $599 MSRP for months. When prices finally stabilized, the ongoing DRAM supply crunch took effect. However, it seems that pricing for a handful of models in several regions is finally cooling down.

As noted by OC3D, several UK retailers, including Overclockers UK, have a selection of triple-fan models from ASUS, XFX, and PowerColor priced at £599.99 ($800). This puts them just 5% shy of AMD's official £569 ($750) MSRP. While these variants are a welcome shift, it's worth noting that they remain the exception. The majority of premium board partner models continue to trade well into the £700 ($950) territory. Note that these prices include the VAT.

NVIDIA's latest Security Bulletin details several new high-severity security vulnerabilities covering its wide range of GeForce RTX, Quadro, Tesla, and NVS products, related to its drivers for Windows and Linux. The high severity relates to potential "denial of service, escalation of privileges, information disclosure, data tampering, and code execution."

The good news is that these vulnerabilities have been addressed as long as you're running GeForce Game Ready Driver 596.36 or newer. 596.36 dates back to April 28, 2026, so if you haven't updated your graphics driver in a while, consider this a call to update your driver as soon as possible. The latest release, GeForce Game Ready Driver 596.49, adds support for Forza Horizon 6.

Data tampering and code execution are high-severity vulnerabilities for a reason, and the issues extend to older GPU hardware covering Maxwell, Volta, and Pascal GPUs. For those gaming on older GeForce GTX hardware, you'll want to ensure you're running driver version 582.53 or later to receive the security update.

For those who have been tracking NVIDIA as it becomes a $5 trillion company that leads the world in chips and hardware built for modern AI data centers and workloads, it probably wasn't a surprise to learn that the company's latest financial report showed record revenue. Namely, with its Data Center segment accounting for $75.2 billion of the record $81.6 billion for the first quarter of the company's fiscal 2027.

For those out there who best know NVIDIA as the company behind GeForce and as a leader in the PC gaming hardware market, it's not a surprise to learn that the company's Gaming revenue has become a small slice of its overall revenue. And for those thinking that GeForce is now an afterthought for NVIDIA, and not a focus in any meaningful sense, the latest financial report only reinforces this stance.

And that's because the company is no longer reporting Gaming revenue as a separate line item. Previous financial reports from the company have grouped Gaming and AI PC revenue under a single umbrella covering PCs, GeForce RTX GPUs, laptops, and workstation hardware for enthusiasts and consumers. Now, gaming falls under the catch-all Edge Computing banner that covers AI PCs, GeForce RTX GPUs, game consoles, workstations, AI-RAN base stations, robotics, and automotive.

Back in February 2026, Intel released an introductory video indicating that its next-generation Xe3P architecture would follow the Xe2 architecture. Later, it was reported that Xe3P would not appear in consumer Celestial gaming graphics cards, and Intel canceled the product entirely. Instead, Intel plans to use the architecture in Crescent Island.

Crescent Island is Intel's next data-center GPU, targeting AI inference rather than a consumer Arc graphics card. Intel confirmed the product in October, featuring the Xe3P graphics architecture, 160GB of LPDDR5X memory, and targeting air-cooled data centers and workstations optimized for AI inference workloads.

Now, the upcoming Crescent Island accelerator has appeared in a first PCB leak from YuuKi_AnS, spotted by Wccftech. The leaked PCB gives us a look at the large Xe3P GPU die and its LPDDR5X memory configuration.

ZOTAC GAMING is celebrating its 20th anniversary, and in the lead-up to Computex 2026, the company is giving away a wide range of impressive hardware, from GeForce RTX 50 Series graphics cards to PC cases and all-in-one mini PCs built for gaming, like the ZBOX MAGNUS ONE. And in keeping with the anniversary theme, the giveaways are all custom 20th-anniversary-edition hardware.

On the official promo page for the event, ZOTAC notes that it plans to unveil and showcase several "exciting new products" at Computex this year, and that this little competition is part of the company's initiative to give back to the community. There are 20 prizes up for grabs, with new items given away weekly. And, the company says that each week the "prizes only get better," so be sure to bookmark the competition to maximize your chances of winning something cool.

The celebration is currently in its third week, and this week (May 18 through to May 24), ZOTAC is giving away two very cool GPUs, the ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 5070 Twin Edge (20th Anniversary Edition) and the ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 5070 Ti SOLID SFF (20th Anniversary Edition).

It's always going to be an uphill battle when it comes to performance and compatibility for any new player creating and releasing a new discrete graphics card for PC gaming. Even Intel required months, if not years, to fine-tune its Arc Graphics drivers and architecture to deliver a noteworthy alternative to NVIDIA's GeForce RTX and AMD's Radeon RX offerings. The latest player to join the lineup of PC gaming GPUs is Lisuan Technology, a Chinese company that is on the cusp of releasing the new Lisuan LX 7G100 gaming GPU.

What makes this release interesting is that it has officially earned Microsoft WHQL certification, the first for a Chinese GPU manufacturer. This essentially means that official driver support for the Lisuan LX 7G100 gaming GPU will receive the all-important Microsoft Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL) certification tick for Windows.

Game support for the first-generation GPU will be broad, including popular APIs such as DirectX 12, Vulkan 1.3, OpenGL 4.6, and OpenCL 3.0. Lisuan Technology has previously stated that performance would be comparable to the GeForce RTX 4060, but in-game performance will depend on driver support and optimizations. On that note, the company says that right out of the gate, over 100 titles will run as intended on the GPU.

A new open-source project is giving Linux users a chance to experience low-input-latency gaming, finally closing a gap that Windows has long held over Linux. Called "low_latency_layer", it adds support for NVIDIA Reflex and AMD Anti-Lag 2 to AMD and Intel GPUs on Linux.

The project (available on GitHub) essentially adds a Vulkan layer that implements VK_NV_low_latency2 and VK_AMD_anti_lag device extensions, bypassing official driver-level support from AMD, Intel, or NVIDIA to expose latency-reduction technologies directly to games.

Low-latency methods keep the CPU from falling too far behind the GPU. When frames linger in the pipeline, input appears older by the time it shows on screen, which is crucial in competitive shooters. NVIDIA Reflex and AMD Anti-Lag 2 address this by improving the synchronization between the game engine, CPU, and GPU.

PC gamers playing the latest titles will be more than aware of shader compilation, a process that can take a few minutes to complete, and one that's a requirement before you can jump into the action. Microsoft's Advanced Shader Delivery, part of the DirectX ecosystem, is designed to remove this requirement by creating hardware-specific profiles that download and install alongside a game, reducing initial load time by up to 95%.

In addition, like the shader compilation process, it eliminates shader stutter for a smoother gaming experience. In partnership with AMD, Advanced Shader Delivery (ASD) was first deployed and available for ROG Xbox Ally handheld gamers in preview form, and this week that partnership is expanding to Windows 11 PCs with discrete Radeon GPUs. And it's already available for Forza Horizon 6.

Microsoft notes that on compatible GPUs, it reduces initial load times by up to 95%, getting you into that first race in seconds rather than minutes. "With Advanced Shader Delivery, Forza Horizon 6 loads in 4 seconds, as compared to almost 1.5 minutes - that's an overall 95% time savings," the announcement confirms, noting that this refers to running the game on a Radeon RX 7600 GPU.

Leaker @harukaze5719 on X (spotted by Wccftech) exposed unusual listings of the RTX 5090 and RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell available for sale on the popular Chinese storefront JD. What makes these listings stand out is that both GPUs are officially banned from sale in China, where NVIDIA instead offers China-specific variants such as the RTX 5090D v2.

The listings, which have since been removed, included the RTX 5090 32GB Blower at 35,999 CNY, the RTX PRO 6000 96GB Server at 91,999 CNY, and the RTX PRO 6000 96GB Desktop at 76,999 CNY. The RTX 5090 32GB is among the most advanced consumer GPUs available in the market and is still officially subject to export restrictions.

All three appeared under a storefront called the "AI Hardware JD Self-Operated Zone." Since these listings were on a third-party storefront, this implies that NVIDIA isn't directly involved in their sales. According to MEGAsizeGPU (@Zed__Wang) on X, the JD AI flagship store is not an official JD-operated storefront but a third-party seller operating under the JD platform.

MSI has launched a very limited-edition Star Wars-themed GeForce RTX 5080 to celebrate the release of Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu. Limited to only 500 units in Europe, the MSI GeForce RTX 5080 16G The Mandalorian and Grogu Edition OC Graphics Card takes the company's impressive Gaming Trio design and gives it a Mandalorian and Grogu overhaul, with a stylish brushed metal finish that recreates the titular bounty hunter Din Djarin's (Pedro Pascal) armor.

The Star Wars aesthetics extend to the inclusion of the Mandalorian's iconic helm on the metal backplate's vent (that is interchangeable with the New Republic and the Imperial Remnants emblem), and a little add-on that's both funny and cute. And that's a GPU holder or brace in the form of a Baby Yoda or Grogu figurine. MSI's announcement says that it combines "functionality and cuteness," and we're inclined to agree - it's pretty adorable.

As for the limited-edition GeForce RTX 5080's specs, we have to assume it'll sport a similar Boost Clock speed of 2715 MHz to the Gaming Trio OC model, which should deliver a notable performance improvement over the reference or Founder Edition design. In addition to this, the Mandalorian and Grogu Edition of the Gaming Trio features the same TRI FROZR 4 Thermal Design with the company's latest STORMFORCE fans, nickel-plated copper baseplate for the GPU and Memory, and more.

Intel has released a new optional Beta graphics driver for Arc GPUs, but it's a notable one for those jumping into some of the biggest game releases of the year. The latest Intel Arc Graphics driver 32.0.101.8801 adds support for a trio of big new PC game releases: Forza Horizon 6, LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight, and Subnautica 2. This covers all Arc graphics, from A-Series to B-Series, as well as integrated Arc GPUs on Core Ultra processors.

The other notable addition comes on the software and performance monitoring side, with Intel finally adding a 'Performance Metrics Overlay' to its Intel Graphics Software. The overlay appears detailed, too, with several customization options, styles, and features to play with. And like similar overlays, it can be accessed via a simple keyboard shortcut. And with Forza Horizon 6 and Subnautica 2, both visually impressive titles, it's a welcome addition for Arc gamers looking to optimize performance with real-time feedback.

Another handy feature added to the Intel Graphics Software package is the ability for users to report issues and bugs directly via the app, which should make it easier for both Intel and the Arc community to stay on top of things. And on that note, the full Intel Arc Graphics driver 32.0.101.8801 still lists several Known Issues across all Arc graphics products.

AMD has released its latest driver for Radeon RX gamers, and it's a big one for new releases, as it adds New Game Support for Forza Horizon 6 and 007 First Light. AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 26.5.2 is available now for all RDNA 2, RDNA 3, and RDNA 4 gamers, and is highly recommended for those planning on jumping into the latest Forza Horizon this weekend. However, with the Release Notes stating that Radeon RX 9000 Series gamers might experience intermittent crashes when playing Subnautica 2, if you're ditching the streets of Japan to head underwater this weekend, you might want to stick with AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 26.3.1.

Forza Horizon 6, which is set in Japan, is one of the first major PC games to launch with native FSR 4.1 support. The latest version of AMD's AI-powered Super Resolution technology improves image fidelity compared to the original FSR 4.0 release, giving Radeon RX 9000 Series gamers a 'free' performance boost. Although it's currently exclusive to RDNA 4 GPUs, AMD has finally confirmed that FSR 4.1 is coming to more Radeon GPUs in the coming months - with RDNA 3 gamers expected to get support in July.

In addition to new game support for these two titles, the latest Radeon driver also fixes a couple of crashing and corruption issues with Satisfactory and RoadCraft on Radeon RX 9000 Series cards. Here's a look at the full Release Notes, which also includes all outstanding Known Issues, including a bit more information on the Subnautica 2 problems.

In a surprise announcement, AMD Computing and Graphics SVP Jack Huynh said FSR 4.1 upscaling is coming to RDNA 3 and RDNA 2 GPUs. RDNA 3, which includes Radeon RX 7000-series graphics cards and integrated graphics on new handhelds like the MSI Claw A8, will receive support starting in July. RDNA 2 GPUs will follow at some point in 2027.

For context, when AMD announced FSR 4 early last year, it was tied exclusively to its newer Radeon RX 9000 series GPUs. Gamers have been vocal about bringing the technology to older hardware ever since, but it didn't seem likely to actually happen.

That was because FSR 4 launched exclusively on RDNA 4, due to hardware acceleration for the FP8 instruction set, which older AMD architectures lacked. After a year of behind-the-scenes work, AMD claims it has created an INT8 version of the technology without compromising quality or performance.

The global memory crisis is in full swing and showing no signs of letting up. DRAM prices are absolutely through the roof, and that is directly affecting consumer products such as RAM and graphics cards. Now, it looks like NVIDIA is planning to raise the price of the flagship RTX 5090 due to rising GDDR7 memory costs.

According to Chinese Board Channels, NVIDIA is reportedly preparing to increase prices for its GeForce RTX 5090 and China-exclusive RTX 5090D V2 GPUs. NVIDIA has informed its add-in board partners (AIBs) of a price increase for these two GPUs, citing rising GDDR7 VRAM costs. Per the report, NVIDIA has not specified a new retail price for these graphics cards, but this change will result in a $300 (nearly 2000 RMB) price increase for the AIBs.

NVIDIA provides a GPU kit to its board partners that includes the GPU die (GB202 in this case) and GDDR7 memory. The add-in board partners then build the rest of the board around this configuration, therefore avoiding supply chain delays. However, it now seems NVIDIA is planning to pass on its increased costs to board partners, which in turn will be passed on to consumers.

ASUS's ProArt series covers everything from motherboards and cases to displays, laptop systems, storage, and more. Designed and built to accelerate performance for creatives, artists, students, and professionals, another key element of ASUS's ProArt lineup is a uniform design language that's sleek, minimal, and stylish, with a greater focus on ergonomics and portability than on going all out.

Which brings us to the new ProArt GeForce RTX 5090 OC Edition, which is the company's most compact flagship GeForce RTX 50 Series graphics card to date. The 2.5-slot thickness and dual-fan pull-through cooling system are based on NVIDIA's impressive Founders Edition design, making this a rare compact SFF-Ready GeForce RTX 5090. And the stylish physical design, which includes a wood-patterned laminate trim, also houses impressive cooling.

Under the hood, you've got premium vapor-chamber cooling for the GPU, alongside liquid-metal cooling for the higher Boost Clock speed of 2512 MHz. This is paired with two large 115mm Axial-tech fans and a double-vented backplate that ASUS says is why the card can be up to 27% smaller than a graphics card with a single flow-through vent.

007 First Light is out on May 27, and it's a cinematic third-person action-stealth-adventure game from the studio behind the Hitman series, IO Interactive. Unlike previous notable 007 or James Bond games, this one isn't based on an existing film or portrayal of the iconic character; instead, it's a "reimagined origin story" where players step into the digital shoes of a young, up-and-coming Bond, James Bond.

With the PC version offering the best visuals and performance, with native support for DLSS 4.5 Super Resolution and DLSS Dynamic Multi Frame Generation, and a Path Tracing mode coming in Summer 2026 with DLSS Ray Reconstruction support, NVIDIA's latest GeForce bundle is giving away copies of the game.

The new 007 First Light GeForce RTX 50 Series bundle is offering a Steam copy of the game with eligible purchases of GeForce RTX 50 Series desktops or graphics cards, as well as laptops with select GeForce RTX 50 Series graphics. On the desktop side, the bundle covers everything from the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti to the flagship GeForce RTX 5090, while the laptop side covers everything from the GeForce RTX 5060 through to the RTX 5080 and the flagship RTX 5090.

GeForce Game Ready Driver 596.49 is here, and it's Game Ready for what is easily the biggest game release of the month, Forza Horizon 6. Despite leaks, the game's official launch is May 19, and on PC, the game is set to debut with stunning ray-traced visuals and support for NVIDIA's new DLSS 4.5 Super Resolution and Dynamic Frame Generation.

Running in 4K with Max Settings and ray-tracing, the full DLSS 4.5 suite of technologies delivers 200+ FPS performance at the demanding resolution on the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti, RTX 5080, and the flagship RTX 5090. With the latter pushing 300+ FPS. Dropping the resolution to 1440p and NVIDIA's internal DLSS 4.5 benchmarks show that the figure climbs to 260+ FPS for the top-tier GeForce RTX 50 Series cards.

Set in a visually impressive open-world Japan, Forza Horizon 6 is the highly anticipated follow-up to the Mexico-set Forza Horizon 5, and it's undoubtedly the biggest racing game release in years. In addition to Game Ready support for the latest Forza, the GeForce Game Ready Driver 596.49 also adds support for Directive 8020 and Subnautica 2.

If your graphics card was somehow struck by lightning, would you expect it to survive? Probably not, but this happened to an NVIDIA RTX 3070 (in an indirect way), and the GPU was somehow repaired to a usable state.

VideoCardz noticed this tale from repair expert Brother Zhang, who has performed miraculous repairs on graphics cards in the past.

At the start of the above YouTube video, you can see the PC in which the RTX 3070 was installed, in its post-lightning strike state, with the inside of the computer essentially a melted mess (including the figurine decorations therein).