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Reddit photos have surfaced showing damaged 12V-2x6 power cables on two NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation graphics cards, both connected to a Seasonic PRIME TX-1600 Noctua Edition power supply. The cables' outer braiding had cracked and begun peeling, though the inner insulation and connector housings remained intact, putting around $32,000 worth of equipment at risk. -
AMD is resetting its priorities: data centers are becoming the company’s main focus, while the gaming business is taking a back seat. CEO Lisa Su said this in an interview with Yahoo Finance. According to her, the rise of AI is pushing partners to scale up server capacity and buy more AI chips. -
To celebrate 20 years of the GeForce 8800 GTX, NVIDIA has put an interactive anniversary demo on Steam that revisits the card's 2006 debut and its $599 launch price. The GeForce 8800 GTX was NVIDIA's first graphics card with CUDA support, helping push GPU computing beyond graphics rendering. -
Microsoft said a DirectX Raytracing update can dramatically cut acceleration-structure overhead in geometry-heavy tests, and one Radeon RX 9070 XT sample saw nearly 90% less memory use. The benchmark, however, was not a real game, and the size of the gain depended heavily on the configuration. -
Price increases for NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 50 series may be on the way in China, with the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 among the models said to be affected. At the same time, reports suggest the company may have stopped producing the GeForce RTX 50 lineup, though the claim remains unconfirmed. -
An online post from GOK shows a bizarre Radeon RX 470 prototype board marked DYII-XQ570 V1.0, with four GPUs arranged in a 2×2 layout and 32 GB of GDDR5 memory. The purpose of the card — and whether AMD had any role in developing it — remains unconfirmed. -
With GeForce RTX 50 supplies shrink, NVIDIA partners in China are steering major retailers toward older GeForce RTX 30 cards and AMD Radeon models. The recommendation highlights more affordable options, including the GeForce RTX 3060 and RTX 3050, as vendors contend with reduced shipments of the current lineup. -
Zen 7 APUs code-named Grimlock appear to be the likeliest target for AMD's next graphics refresh, with insider Kepler_L2 saying the company could pair them with RDNA 5+ in 2029; the leaker reported the alleged plans. -
Hardware Unboxed tracked retail GPU prices across ten countries and found that the cheapest cards actually in stock became more expensive again in October, continuing a months-long climb. The monthly increase was 10% excluding the GeForce RTX 5090, and 11% when that card was included. October's rise followed increases of 15% in August and 7% in September. -
According to ChannelGate, NVIDIA could make the GeForce RTX 5080 the top local GeForce card in China by giving it 24GB of memory as early as December 2026 or by January 2027. The rumored move would affect the Chinese market if supplies of the RTX 5080 16GB and RTX 5090 D V2 are phased out. -
A second-hand ASUS TUF RTX 5080 OC owner says the company turned down a warranty claim over loud coil whine, leaving the buyer without inspection or repair after ASUS and Amazon each passed the issue on. The card was about four months old when Huzz95 sought help, and ASUS also declined to replace it. -
ZOTAC's Japanese store is selling the GeForce RTX 5090 SOLID OC for 1,190,000 yen, including tax, and buyers can check out through ZOTAC or Amazon Pay. The listing comes amid reports that some NVIDIA board partners are having difficulty obtaining the GB202 chip used in the RTX 5090, though the high price alone does not prove that chip shortages are the cause. -
After online speculation about the brand's future, Palit said the GALAX graphics-card brand is still operating and that no manufacturing facilities have been shut down. The companies added that GALAX products remain available in domestic and international markets. -
At GTC Berlin, CEO Jensen Huang said NVIDIA's full software suite for AI agents costs about $2,000 per GPU per year, a figure that would scale to roughly $2 billion annually for every million GPUs using the company's AI applications. -
The situation around NVIDIA's flagship GeForce RTX 5090 continues to heat up. Not long ago, it was all rumors and speculation, but now there's concrete evidence that the card is effectively vanishing from store shelves—even though, formally, NVIDIA hasn't announced it's being discontinued. -
HKEPC posted a video on X from a Chinese workshop where GeForce RTX 5090s are being disassembled and turned into accelerators for artificial intelligence tasks. The GPU die and VRAM chips are removed from the cards and then installed on a custom-made printed circuit board. That’s how consumer graphics cards are being turned into AI accelerators. -
ASUS and Gigabyte have already adjusted GeForce RTX 50 pricing in China, with the sharpest increases hitting high-end models as GDDR7 memory gets harder to source. The change could reach US and European retailers within one or two weeks, according to the report. -
Computex 2027 now looks like the earliest possible stage for AMD to talk about its RDNA 5 graphics cards, according to leaker Kepler_L2. The event is scheduled for the first week of June, but the leaker suggested the announcement could still slip to later in the year. This is a prediction about an announcement, not a confirmed release date. -
A Micro Center buyer in Tustin says the store made them sign an export declaration and show ID before completing a PowerSpec AI90 purchase with a GeForce RTX 5090. According to the customer, a manager scanned their driver's license, and staff described the form as a new procedure. -
NVIDIA has posted GeForce Security Update Driver 582.78 WHQL for older GeForce cards, with the update focused on patching 114 security vulnerabilities. The driver is intended for 64-bit versions of Windows 10 and Windows 11, and it supports selected desktop models from the GTX 700, GTX 900, and GTX 10 series.
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