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Hardware and Technologies Yesterday, 07:11 PM
The laptop RTX 5090 has been made to draw significantly more power than the manufacturer intended, and it delivered a noticeable performance boost. Using the NvpwrControl utility, enthusiasts raised the power limit from 175W to 250W, and in some tests the gain reached nearly 42%. -
Hardware and Technologies Yesterday, 04:48 PM
According to ChannelGate, AMD's planned price increase is tied to higher wafer costs at TSMC, whose manufacturing fees are reportedly rising across several process nodes. The company's dependence on TSMC as a fabless chipmaker means those costs can flow directly into its own pricing, with higher manufacturing costs at TSMC cited as the trigger. -
Gaming News September 16, 2026, 05:45 PM
A new leak suggests AMD's next GPU architecture could require explicit game support for a neural rendering feature called Neural Lighting, rather than treating it like a universal post-process effect. The claim comes from insider Kepler_L2, who said the technology would use neural networks instead of traditional shaders and calculate lighting in real time. -
Hardware and Technologies September 15, 2026, 06:16 PM
The flagship GeForce RTX 5090 unexpectedly lost to the Radeon RX 9070 XT in several gaming tests, even though in overall performance the cards are in completely different classes. The reason wasn't AMD superiority: in some scenarios the system hits a CPU bottleneck, and then the RTX 5090's extra power goes practically unused. -
Hardware and Technologies September 15, 2026, 05:08 PM
A Reddit user says his RTX 5090 Founders Edition developed black-screen crashes under load, only for NVIDIA to later reject the warranty claim. The owner, posting as Willing-Avocado-4830, said he bought the card directly from the NVIDIA UK store almost one year earlier. -
Hardware and Technologies September 14, 2026, 06:35 PM
The RTX 5090’s melting power-connector problem has reared its head again, but this time the circumstances were especially strange. The owner of the flagship graphics card found serious damage to the 16-pin connector after roughly an hour of playing Crypt of the NecroDancer — a game that’s already around 11 years old and usually isn’t hard on a modern GPU. -
Hardware and Technologies September 14, 2026, 10:19 AM
ASUS ROG Astral RTX 5090 Edition 20 and ROG Matrix RTX 5090 30th Anniversary cards reportedly need a Chinese adapter to bypass the power cap normally tied to BTF 2.5 motherboards. VideoCardz reported on the workaround, which uses a dual-power setup to push the cards beyond their standard limits. -
Hardware and Technologies September 11, 2026, 06:43 PM
Since January, GeForce RTX 5090 pricing in Germany has risen by about 73%, with the MSI Ventus 3X OC now listed at roughly €5,249 after starting at around €3,150. What was once NVIDIA's €2,099 flagship has effectively moved into luxury territory. The gap has widened sharply since January. Compared with the cheapest GeForce RTX 5090 price at that time, the current German minimum is up by about 73%. -
Hardware and Technologies September 10, 2026, 05:46 PM
On an RTX 2060 Max-Q, one tester has already gotten NVIDIA DLSS Frame Generation to launch in The Witcher 3 next-gen over DirectX 12, even though the feature is officially limited to RTX 40 and RTX 50 cards. The in-game Frame Generation option could be enabled on the GeForce RTX 20-series GPU. -
Hardware and Technologies September 8, 2026, 07:55 PM
Radeon RX 6000 owners can now try AMD FSR 4.1.1b through a DLL-only OptiScaler workaround, without the user-facing INT8 binary or the OptiScaler utility. The instructions say users need to download the DLL and swap it into the Binaries > Win64 folder in their game. The modified file also bypasses the INT8 check, making the feature a plug-and-play solution. -
Hardware and Technologies September 8, 2026, 05:52 PM
A new rumor suggests NVIDIA may be preparing a GeForce RTX 5070 refresh built around the larger GB203 die instead of the current GB205 chip. The report, tied to leaker Hongxing2020, also says a new NVIDIA driver is due on September 9, while the exact GB203 version, device ID, board design, and availability remain unknown. VideoCardz reported the change first, and Hongxing2020 echoed the claim on X. -
Hardware and Technologies September 8, 2026, 10:04 AM
SRhonyra's Newegg listing for its low-profile RTX 3060 12 GB puts the card at $495, and the standout feature is its connector-less, single-slot design for compact systems. According to the listing, the card draws power only through the PCIe x16 slot. It uses the GA106 die, comes with 12 GB of VRAM, and offers just two display outputs: HDMI 2.1 and DisplayPort 1.4a. -
Hardware and Technologies September 4, 2026, 09:48 AM
NVIDIA has released a new GeForce driver, and the headline feature is support for DLSS 5 — a technology that could significantly shift how game graphics are enhanced. However, for now, only GeForce RTX 50 owners will get to try it out, and only in a single title: NBA 2K27. Without driver 616.64, the new setting won't even show up in the basketball sim's menu. -
Hardware and Technologies September 3, 2026, 04:48 PM
VideoCardz says AMD's next Radeon architecture is still far from launch, but a new leak suggests it could be pushing much higher clock speeds than current chips. Insider Kepler_L2 says the target range for RDNA 5 is 3.1 to 3.4 GHz, based on internal AMD material he has seen, though AMD has not announced RDNA 5 Radeon products or confirmed any specifications yet. -
Hardware and Technologies September 2, 2026, 07:56 PM
A September price update from harukaze5719 says ASUS and GALAX have raised the prices of several GeForce RTX 50-series graphics cards, with the RTX 5080 seeing the biggest jump. The latest changes were spotted on September 1 and affect the RTX 5070, RTX 5070 Ti, and RTX 5080. -
Hardware and Technologies August 28, 2026, 06:29 PM
The overheating issues with power connectors on the GeForce RTX 5090 have pushed the TecLab crew to go for a solution that looks more like a workshop repair job than factory engineering. They completely removed the stock 16-pin connectors and soldered the power wires directly onto the graphics card's PCB. -
Hardware and Technologies August 26, 2026, 05:10 PM
A relisted MSI GeForce RTX 3060 Ventus 2X 12G OC has already jumped to $479.99 on Newegg, putting the old Ampere card above NVIDIA's newer RTX 5050. Videocardz reported that the 12 GB model went back on sale after disappearing for a time. That is a sharp increase from July, when the same card sold for $329.99 on the same retailer. In less than two months, the difference came to $150, or roughly 45%. -
Hardware and Technologies August 24, 2026, 06:51 PM
The GPU market looks set to deliver another nasty surprise to shoppers. After months of rising prices, the problems are starting to creep beyond just high-end, high-memory models—the shortage could soon spill over into mainstream 8GB graphics cards. Manufacturers are warning of supply cuts in the second half of the year, with price hikes hitting multiple stages of production. -
Hardware and Technologies August 21, 2026, 06:50 PM
Integrated graphics in modern CPUs have seen a massive leap in performance, gradually eating into workloads that used to be the sole domain of dedicated graphics cards. According to XDA Developers, buying a budget discrete GPU in the $300–$500 range in 2026 is often a tough sell: the latest iGPUs can handle modern games, video editing, and even keep up with current graphics feature sets. -
Hardware and Technologies August 20, 2026, 07:05 PM
AMD has been developing its FSR frame generation tech for several years now, but one of its biggest issues appears to remain unresolved. Hardware Unboxed’s latest testing shows that a high FPS counter doesn’t always mean a genuinely smooth experience — in a number of modern titles, generated frames are delivered unevenly, making a supposed 120 FPS feel worse than a stable 90 FPS without Frame Generation.
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