Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 versus RTX 4090 — How does the new halo GPU compare with its predecessor?

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....

July 5, 2025 · 6 min · 1202 words · Tara Kirk

Nvidia releases emergency RTX 5060-series firmware to fix blank screens on reboot

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....

July 5, 2025 · 2 min · 403 words · David Ferrell

Nvidia revives LAN party after 13 years to celebrate RTX 50-series GPU launch — GeForce LAN 50 is a 50-hour LAN party across four different cities

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....

July 5, 2025 · 2 min · 286 words · Jennifer Freeman

Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti Super using AD102 GPU appears — a fresh variant surfaces with a harvested RTX 4090 die

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....

July 5, 2025 · 4 min · 691 words · Mr. Thomas Watson

Nvidia RTX 5090 laptop GPU undergoes multiple benchmark tests — flagship mobile GPU yields inconsistent results

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....

July 5, 2025 · 4 min · 674 words · Marissa Powell

Nvidia shipped 3.76M data center GPUs in 2023 — dominates business with 98% revenue share

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....

July 5, 2025 · 2 min · 426 words · Tammy Barron

Old $20 Nvidia GeForce GT 730 graphics card upcycled into $1,024 plastic handbag

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....

July 5, 2025 · 3 min · 496 words · Dawn Mclean

Old-school Creative Sound Blaster cards repaired and demoed

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....

July 5, 2025 · 4 min · 731 words · Richard Harrison

Rambus announces HBM4 memory controller for AI GPUs — controller enables up to of 2.56 TB/s per HBM4 memory stack across a 2048-bit memory bus

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....

July 5, 2025 · 3 min · 460 words · Mary Marks

RTX 5090 hits 800 FPS in Valorant with sub-3ms latency — Reflex 2 reduces system latency by 75%

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....

July 5, 2025 · 2 min · 406 words · Daniel Anderson

Samsung reportedly plans to join UALink Alliance — high-speed interconnect could power its next-gen chips

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....

July 5, 2025 · 3 min · 432 words · Monica Hess DDS

Samsung's 500Hz Odyssey G6 OLED joins stacked 2025 gaming monitor lineup

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....

July 5, 2025 · 3 min · 525 words · Karina Barrett

Samsung’s Hybrid 990 EVO SSD announced — world's first hybrid PCIe 4.0 x4 and 5.0 x2 SSD

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....

July 5, 2025 · 3 min · 498 words · James Henderson