TheBlackwell RTX 50-series GPUsmark the end of the more than two long years of waiting since theRTX 40-series Ada Lovelace GPUslaunched in late 2022. Nvidia announced itsupcoming GeForce RTX 50-series cardsduring theCES2025 keynote, providing the specifications, pricing, and even a preview of performance. Big claims were made, with new technologies like DLSS 4 playing a major role in those claims. As the new halo part, the RTX 5090 takes over from the RTX 4090, boasting more memory, more compute, more features, and more power....

ManyRTX 5060andRTX 5060 Tiusers encounter blank screens when restarting their systems. Nvidia hasreleased an updateto resolve this problem, not through a new driver, but as a firmware update for the GPU, also known as the vBIOS. The report strictly advises that only users experiencing this problem should update their firmware. The problem likely stems from how Nvidia’s vBIOS communicates with the system’s BIOS/UEFI. If your motherboard does not support UEFI boot mode, Nvidia recommends contacting the customer service of your GPU manufacturer for a legacy vBIOS update....

Nvidia is hosting its first LAN party in over a decade to celebrate the RTX 50 series debut atCES2025. The LAN party (dubbedGeForce LAN 50) will start on January 4 at 4:30 pm PT and end right before Nvidia CES Jensen Huang gives his opening speech at the CES event in Las Vegas on January 6 at 6:30 pm PT. The main LAN event will occur in Las Vegas, while remote sessions will take place in Beijing, Berlin, and Taipei....

TheNvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super, one of thebest graphics cards, won’t be the only one of its kind on the market. MSI (viawxnod) recently launched the RTX 4070 Ti Super 16G Ventus 3X Black OC, which features different silicon than the original RTX 4070 Ti Super.Nvidia first shipped the RTX 4070 Ti Super with AD103 silicon — the same chip used in theRTX 4080andRTX 4080 Super. There’s nothing surprising about Nvidia using the same die for multiple GPU variants, as we’ve covered in ourNvidia Ada Lovelace RTX 40-seriesoverview....

The first Geekbench 6 results (viaBenchLeakson X) for Nvidia’sRTX 5090 laptop GPUare here. They show extremely poor performance consistency, though that’s hardly surprising considering the early nature of the hardware and the test application.The RTX 5090 laptop GPU was tested in Geekbench’s GPUVulkancompute benchmark and ran on MSI’s Vector 17 HX AI laptop, which also features aCore Ultra 9 275HX. The machine was tested five times in about ten minutes, which is usually a good time for reasonably consistent performance in a scored test… assuming there are no other factors....

The recent AI boom has paid dividends for Nvidia, with the company reportedly shipping 3.76 million data center GPUs in 2023 alone. This is over a million more graphics processors than it shipped to this market in 2022, growing its sales by over 42%. According toHPCwire, these numbers show that Nvidia has retained its 98% market share of the data center GPU market in 2023 from the previous year. Aside from its lead in the data center market, Nvidia has alsocornered 88% of the desktop GPU market, withthe next-generation RTX 50-seriesexpected to arrive later this year....

A website named GPU Purses is currently selling a luxury product named theGT730 purse with fan, for $1,024 (h/tVideoCardz). This clear plastic purse with gold trimmings features an old Nvidia GT730 encased in resin sitting inside it, while a Gigabyte-branded fan is glued to the outside. The GT 730, which launched in 2014, was priced at $70 to $80 when it came out. But at the moment, brand new GT 730 graphics cards go for around $50, while you can find used examples at around $20....

Two ancient Creative Sound Blaster cards have been repaired and demonstrated by TechTuberNecroware. The 1994 vintage Creative Sound Blaster 16 (CT2230) fix was a relatively simple affair, with a single broken trace needing attention. However, the Creative Sound Blaster 16 IDE (CT2290) was a much more involved repair, but it still turned out a success after some trial and error. The sound cards were tested and demoed in the DOS Unisound drivers and in games like Descent II and Wolfenstein 3D....

Although JEDEC still needstofinalize the HBM4 specification, the industry seems to need the new memory technology as soon as possible, as demand for high-performance GPUs for AI is insatiable. To enable chip designers to build next-generation GPUs, Rambus has unveiled the industry’s HBM4 memory controller IP, which surpasses the capabilities of HBM4 announced to date. Rambus’s HBM4 controller not only supports the JEDEC-specified 6.4 GT/s data transfer rate for HBM4 but also has headroom to support speeds up to 10 GT/s....

In ablog postdetailing its new Reflex 2 technology, Nvidia showed off anRTX 5090consistently delivering 800 FPS inValorantat 1440p. The key highlight is not the FPS but the PC latency, hovering between an astonishingly low 2-3ms. Building on the existing framework, Reflex 2 can “warp” the frame to a newer camera position, considering quick mouse movements while an algorithm fills in the missing details. It has almost become a tradition for Nvidia to announce a slew of new software utilities and tools with each generation of GPUs....

Samsung has expressed interest in joining theUALink Alliance, which aims to create new interconnect standards for various accelerators, according toDigiTimes. The report suggests that the plan is designed to boost Samsung’s foundry business, allowing it to better address its customers' needs. However, Samsung could also develop its own accelerators and connect them using industry standard technology. At the Samsung Foundry Forum (SFF) 2024, TaeJoong Song, who leads business development at Samsung’s foundry division, indicated that Samsung is intrigued by UALink’s efforts to standardize AI chip interconnectivity....

Samsung has announced several new monitors ahead ofCES2025, featuring gaming and entertainment-focused variants. The highlights of Samsung’slatest lineupare two new Odyssey G-series gaming monitors, purportedly featuring the world’s first OLED panel with a 500Hz refresh rate. The Odyssey G6 and G8 are Samsung’s new high-performance gaming monitors, with the former featuring a blisteringly fast 500Hz refresh rate. The G8 variant, the G81SF, is a 27"OLEDmonitor equipped with a 4k panel offering a 240 Hz refresh rate....

Details of Samsung’s 990 EVO, the world’s first hybrid PCIe interface SSD, were inadvertently postedearlier this month. Now Samsung has made the drive official as it launches it as part of its vaunted EVO SSD line. This drive stands out with hybrid functionality, running in either the x4 PCIe 4.0 or x2 PCIe 5.0 modes, a first for an M.2 SSD. The bandwidth remains the same in both cases, with performance up to 5,000 / 4,200 MB/s for sequential read/write throughput and 700K/800K random read/write IOPS....