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GALAX teased but has now made its new GeForce RTX 4090 20th Anniversary Edition graphics card official.

In order to celebrate its 20th birthday, the company has unveiled a very special edition GeForce RTX 4090 20th Anniversary Edition graphics card that features a triple-fan cooler: two fans on the front, and a single fan on the back, with the 12VHPWR power connector hidden away for the ultimate in aesthetics.

GALAX is taking some inspiration from NVIDIA and its GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition graphics card with its new GeForce RTX 4090 20th Anniversary Edition graphics card but with the added touch of the power connector hidden behind an acrylic panel: also accessible very easily when you need to connect or disconnect the power cable. We can't see the hidden 12VHPWR power connector through these renders, but we know it's there.

AMD Radeon RX series graphics card owners will want to hope they didn't install the new Radeon 23.10.1 drivers, enable AMD's new Anti-Lag+ technology, and play Counter-Strike 2... because VAC bans were being handed out, which... well, you know that's not good at all.

Counter-Strike 2 only launched a couple of weeks ago now, with AMD's latest technology -- Anti-Lag+ which is exclusive to the Radeon RX 7000 series GPU family -- meant to enhance responsiveness by optimizing frame alignment within the game code.

Well... yeah, Counter-Strike 2 doesn't like that and Valve has admitted that some gamers were getting VAC banned because of it. The official Twitter/X account for Counter-Strike 2 laid out the warning, tweeting that AMD's latest driver enabled Anti-Lag+ for Counter-Strike 2, but was implemented by detouring engine dll functions. Valve warned that if you are an AMD Radeon RX 7000 series graphics card owner "DO NOT ENABLE ANTI-LAG" because any tampering with CS code will "result in a VAC ban".

Intel has added a few new Arc Alchemist GPU PCI IDs inside of its recent Linux drivers, which means we could expect a family of refreshed Arc GPUs on the desktop... maybe.

We've only just had the launch of Intel's new Arc A580 graphics card, the last remaining member of the Arc Alchemist desktop graphics card family that was introduced over a year ago now. As it stands, these are the members of the Arc Alchemist GPU lineup: Arc A770, Arc A750, Arc A580, Arc A380, and finally, the Arc A310. Each of them is powered by the Alchemist GPU architecture -- either the ACM-G10 or ACM-G11 SKUs -- but now Intel has added 5 more Arc Alchemist GPU PCI IDs inside of its new Arc GPU drivers for Linux.

Phoronix found the mentions of Intel's new Arc Alchemist GPU PCI IDs inside of the Linux open-source i915 Direct Rendering Manager driver. Here's a list of those supported Arc Alchemist GPUs:

GIGABYTE has just accidentally, kinda confirmed the existence of the AMD Radeon RX 6750 GRE graphics card -- GRE standing for "Golden Rabbit Edition" -- in celebration of the Year of the Rabbit in China.

Unfortunately, you won't be able to buy the GIGABYTE Radeon RX 6750 GRE graphics card, because it won't be made available for the DIY market outside of China. You can, however, get your hands on the GPU through system integrators across the world, but it won't be as popular as other members of the Radeon RX 6000 and Radeon RX 7000 series graphics cards.

Inside, we're expecting GIGABYTE's new Radeon RX 6750 GRE Falcon 12G graphics card available for purchase in China on October 18 at 9 AM. We should see the Radeon RX 6750 GRE graphics card based on the AMD RDNA 2 GPU architecture, but we don't know exactly how many Stream Processors will be used on the GPU itself.

Samsung has announced that it is preparing its next-gen HBM4 memory standard, where it is currently planned for a 2025 release.

The next-gen Samsung HBM4 memory will offer a performance boost in data transfer rates, higher capacities, and more improvements for the future of AI processors from the likes of NVIDIA and AMD. Samsung should have next-generation HBM4 memory stacks with a 2048-bit memory bus in 2025, doubling the 1024-bit memory bus that has been inside of HBM3 for a few years now.

Samsung's executive vice president of DRAM product & technology, Sang Joon Hwang, announced the South Korean giant would have sixth-generation HBM4 DRAM chips in 2025. Samsung has its mass-produced HBM2e and HBM3 memory, while in development the company has HBM3e on the way with 9.8Gbps of bandwidth.

Galax looks poised to possibly reveal a new RTX 4090 model to celebrate its 20th anniversary, and we've caught a glimpse of the graphics card.

VideoCardz grabbed the scoop here, as you can see in the above tweet, and although the tech site didn't get any firm details on the card, or confirmation that it's an RTX 4090 - it certainly looks that way.

As VideoCardz points out, judging from the image provided in the tweet, the size of the card and cooling system indicate this will be a Lovelace flagship model.

AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 23.10.1 is available now for all Radeon RX GPU owners, bringing day-one support to this week's release of Lords of the Fallen, driver support, and optimizations for Assassin's Creed Mirage.

Both additions are great to see, and per an earlier report, Lords of the Fallen is getting FSR 3 support on day one. However, the most notable update surrounds the recent launch of Counter-Strike 2. The latest Radeon and Adrenalin software release adds AMD's low-latency Anti-Lag+ support to the game, which is great to see as it has supported NVIDIA's Reflex tech since day one. Low-latency tech is arguably more important for competitive titles than FSR or DLSS, so this is a win-win.

The Counter-Strike 2 updates don't stop there, as the AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 23.10.1 also brings some much-needed fixes, like the game crashing when enabling things like MSAA or FSR on a Radeon RX 7900 XTX. Plus, improvements to stutter when playing the game - another important thing to get right on esports and competitive titles.

Intel has launched its latest discrete graphics card, with the new Intel Arc A580 available globally, with pricing starting from USD 179. The first few Intel Arc A580 GPUs arrive courtesy of ASRock, GUNNIR, and SPARKLE - and you can check out our full review of the SPARKLE Intel Arc A580 ORC OC Edition.

Intel describes the card as the latest Arc entry to cater to gamers and creators, targeting fast 1080p gaming performance at 'High' settings - with even faster performance when playing popular esports titles. The big story here, at least for us, is the $179 price point - we haven't seen a brand-new GPU (especially one that can deliver decent performance) arrive at a low price like this in a long, long time.

Spec-wise, it's very close to the Intel Arc A750, too, so you're looking at performance within 10% of the mainstream Arc 7 offering. In our benchmarking, which pushed game settings to the 'Ultra' level, SPARKLE Intel Arc A580 ORC OC Edition delivered an average frame rate of 74 FPS, which is not too shabby for an entry-level card, making it an attractive option for PC gamers on a budget. This figure makes it 20% faster than the GeForce RTX 3050, which retails for a higher price.

COLORFUL has just launched a trio of new graphics cards in the GeForce RTX 40 series, with two new models of GeForce RTX 4060 Ti and a single new entry in the GeForce RTX 4060 and they all have hidden PCIe power connectors.

Back in July, COLORFUL unveiled its new Ultra Z series of graphics cards which extended their work from the iGame Ultra White series. COLORFUL uses a wicked range of designs inside of its Ultra series of graphics cards, with either 2 x fans or 3 x fans with hidden PCIe power connectors.

Now, we have the introduction of the following new COLORFUL iGame Ultra Z graphics cards: COLORFUL RTX 4070 iGame Ultra Z 12GB, the COLORFUL RTX 4060 Ti iGame Ultra Z 16GB, as well as the COLORFUL RTX 4060 TI iGame Ultra Z 8GB, and finally, the COLORFUL RTX 4060 iGame Ultra Z 8GB.

Intel has just released its latest Arc GPU drivers, and with it has support for the new Intel Arc A580 graphics cards, adds support for a few new games coming out soon, and some gigantic performance boosts for Arc GPU owners in multiple games.

The new Intel Arc A580 graphics card is officially supported under the new Intel Arc GPU drivers, so you'll need this driver update before you can use your new Arc A580 if that's what you're deciding to buy. If you're an Intel Arc GPU owner, then you've got support for the upcoming Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III beta, Total War: PHARAOH, and Lords of the Fallen.

In terms of the huge performance boosts with the new Intel Arc GPU driver, versus the previous Intel 31.0.101.4885 software version, will put a huge smile on Intel Arc GPU owners' faces. We're talking about a 117% performance boost in Starfield at 1080p on Ultra settings, and up to 149% more performance at 1440p on High settings.

ZOTAC had some of my favorite custom NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 series graphics cards, with the custom ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 4080 AMP Extreme ARIO in particular, being one of the best RTX 4080 cards money can buy... and they just got cheaper.

Amazon Prime Day is right around the corner, and it brings huge savings across a multitude of products... ZOTAC is jumping on the price-cut goodness by slashing the cost of its GeForce RTX 4080 Trinity OC graphics card by 24% down to $990. While the cost of the GeForce RTX 4080 Ti Trinity OC gets cust by 13% bringing it down to $770.

The two best-selling GeForce RTX 40 series cards seem to be the ultra-enthusiast GeForce RTX 4090 and then after that, it's the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti. However, the GeForce RTX 4080 with its $1099 to $1200+ pricing is not too much more for the RTX 4090, but it brings a helluva lot more GPU power over the RTX 4080, and it also comes with a better stack of 24GB of GDDR6X memory, versus the 16GB on the RTX 4080.

NVIDIA has just pushed out its new GeForce Game Ready 537.58 WHQL drivers, which are Game Ready for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III's upcoming PC multiplayer open beta, as well as the releases of both Forza Motorsport and Lords of the Fallen.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III doesn't officially launch until November 10, but PC gamers can prepare their systems for the multiplayer beta, which is enhanced by NVIDIA DLSS 2 Super Resolution and NVIDIA Reflex technologies. You would have needed to have pre-purchased Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III on the PC, with the multiplayer open beta kicking off on October 12.

If you didn't pre-order Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III, then don't worry... you can still jump into the multiplayer open beta on October 14, with the beta ending on October 16.

Ooooh, it looks like NVIDIA is slowly outing its next-generation GPU lineup... where a slide from its recent NVIDIA Investor Presentation is bringing some much-needed attention to next-gen data center and AI GPUs. Check it out:

NVIDIA's new roadmap extends for a few years... covering the A100 "Ampere" GPU from 2023, the new H100 "Hopper" GPU that was unleashed this year, its upcoming H200 "Hopper" GPU in 2024, and then the "B100" Blackwell GPU that is penciled in for 2024. Not only that but we're being teased by "X100" for some time in 2025, too. Juicy.

We are to expect new data center GPU architectures each and every year, where the next one to expect after the just-released H100 Hopper GPU architecture is the upcoming H200 Hopper GPU architecture in 2024, after that we'll get the B100 Blackwell GPU architecture which will arrive for both data center and AI systems, as well as Blackwell-powered GeForce RTX 50 series desktop graphics cards... that's what I want to see.

NVIDIA has been a very tight partner of Remedy Entertainment, where back in 2019 the two companies worked on Control -- one of the first ray-traced games on the market, and one of the first DLSS-capable games, too -- and it STILL looks fantastic. But now, NVIDIA is giving away a free company of Remedy's upcoming game -- Alan Wake 2 -- with particular GeForce RTX 40 series graphics cards.

The above video is a graphical showcase -- well, a quick tease -- of what to expect in Alan Wake 2 when you've got an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 series graphics card powering the game. Remedy is using Alan Wake 2 to show off the latest and greatest NVIDIA graphical technologies, including full DLSS 3.5 with Ray Reconstruction technology, and oh-so-much more.

Alan Wake 2 sees the technical partnership on the PC edition with NVIDIA even greater than it was a few years ago with control, with fully ray-traced, path-traced graphics that are "beyond anything you've previously seen". In order to push this along, Remedy and NVIDIA has announced the new Alan Wake 2 GeForce RTX 40 series bundle, which will run until November 13.

Intel has finally unleashed its A580 graphics card, a model that was announced way back, but little has been heard about since (save for a minor leak or two).

In all honesty, we felt this GPU had been canceled, especially when Intel said nothing about the graphics card at its recent Innovation show, which seemed like an ideal time to unveil it.

For whatever reason, though, Intel clearly wanted to wait until after the event to reveal the GPU, but at least we now have confirmation that it's going on sale.

As part of the AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition Preview Driver for AMD Fluid Motion Frames, it looks like AMD has expanded the real-time monitoring for its Radeon hardware (specifically RDNA 3 GPUs) with the addition of a new metric - System Lag. This will allow Radeon RX 7000 GPU owners to monitor system latency, an important measurement tool for frame generation tech like Fluid Motion Frames.

Frame generation tech involves generating a frame between traditionally rendered frames to present a more fluid and performative image, a perceived performance increase that carries the cost of increased latency. NVIDIA mitigates this with tits Reflex technology, which you can monitor the effect of via GeForce overlays.

On the AMD side, introducing Anti-Lag+ (or using the existing Radeon Anti-Lag tech) is crucial in keeping the overall latency down to ensure that a game still feels great while looking smoother. The ability to look at System Lag via an overlay will make the whole process of enabling AMD Fluid Motion Frames and optimizing settings much easier. However, as of now, the monitoring is limited to Anti-Lag+ titles.

Last week, AMD released a special AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition Preview Driver for RDNA 3 owners to check out the company's new AMD Fluid Motion Frames (FMF) technology in 20 optimized DirectX 11 and 12 games. An impressive list that includes Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, Resident Evil 4, Starfield, and The Last of Us Part 1.

This is the driver-level implementation of AMD's answer to NVIDIA DLSS 3 Frame Generation, allowing Radeon owners to enable Frame Gen in games that don't feature native support for it. Over the weekend, AMD updated the Adrenalin Edition Preview Driver to add support for Radeon RX 6000 Series GPUs - which is great to see, as there are a lot of RDNA 2 cards out in the wild.

Like with the original preview release, this is described as an "early first look" by AMD, with some caveats. Fluid Motion Frames are automatically disabled during fast motion and, as such, "may not offer the optimal experience in fast-paced competitive titles." However, it's still exciting to see Frame Generation at the driver level like this.

ASUS is gearing up for the release of one of the most interesting -- and useful -- graphics cards of the last few years, with its GeForce RTX 4060 Ti with an SSD slot turning up at the EEC (the Eurasian Economic Commission).

In the listing at the ECC, it looks like ASUS is preparing 2 different cards: a faster model with factory overclocking, and then one that isn't overclocked out of the box. It looks like ASUS will be launching it under their DUAL family of graphics cards, so we should expect the ASUS GeForce RTX 4060 Ti DUAL (overclocked) and then the ASUS GeForce RTX 4060 Ti DUAL (not overclocked) in the near future, both rocking the SSD slot on-board.

Earlier this year, ASUS China teased the new GeForce RTX 4060 Ti graphics card powered by a Samsung 980 PRO 2TB SSD which was mounted to the rear of the card.

NVIDIA is reportedly planning a new high-end GeForce RTX 40 series card release, with rumors suggesting that the company is tinkering with a GeForce RTX 4080 Ti -- or GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER -- graphics card that will fall into a "similar price range" to the GeForce RTX 4080 that's on the market today.

We're hearing the news of the GeForce RTX 4080 Ti from MEGAsizeGPU, with the new GPU set to arrive sometime in early 2024... which smells like CES 2024 in January. We could see the GeForce RTX 4080 Ti or GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER, although a "SUPER" branded release would feel weird on its own against non-Ti and Ti class GPUs that NVIDIA already has filling out its GeForce RTX 40 series family of graphics cards.

Now, what's going to be inside? Rumor has it that NVIDIA's upcoming GeForce RTX 4080 Ti will be based on the AD102 GPU GPU, with a bit more beef to it than the GeForce RTX 4080. We're hearing that it'll have a 380W to 420W TGP, as well as 20GB of GDDR6 memory on a 320-bit memory bus, which is a bigger upgrade over the 16GB of GDDR6X memory on a 256-bit memory bus on the regular GeForce RTX 4080 graphics card.

Intel's Arc A310 graphics card is not a new product, but it is new to the US market, with a major retailer just having listed the GPU for sale.

Originally, this was a product made and sold to PC manufacturers, and mostly outfits over in China, but now, the Arc A310 is in stock and available from Newegg in the US.

The model is the Sparkle Arc A310 Elf and it's a modest spec sitting at the bottom of the Alchemist line-up, with only 6 Xe-Cores and 4GB of VRAM (64-bit bus).