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Nvidia's Upcoming 'Double D' gaming GPU becomes the '5090D V2' in latest leak — GPU previously known as the 'RTX 5090DD' remains China-exclusive

作者 editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir)

2025年7月2日 21:15

The RTX 5090DD, intended for release in China, has been renamed to the RTX 5090D V2 while the specs remain untouched.

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Nvidia's 16GB RTX 5060 Ti reportedly 16x more popular than its 8GB variant — German retailer figures suggest customers are steering clear of lower spec model

作者 editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir)

2025年7月2日 18:37

The 16GB variant of the RTX 5060 Ti reigns supreme against its 8GB peer with a whopping 16x difference in sales figures.

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Nvidia RTX 5050 benchmarks reveal close contest with RTX 4060 — new budget card even outperforms forebear in some tests

作者 editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales)

2025年7月1日 19:22

Benchmarks by Inno3D show the RTX 5050 performing nearly on par with the older RTX 4060.

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Nvidia to axe Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPUs with end of driver support — 580 series drivers will be the last to support GTX 900 and 1000 cards

2025年7月1日 19:06

An official Nvidia Unix graphics feature deprecation schedule says that driver branch 580 will be the last to include support for the Maxwell and Pascal architectures.

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RTX 5000 graphics cards get deep discounts at Newegg — RTX 5070, 5060 Ti, and 5060 all fall to low prices ahead of Prime Day (Updated)

2025年7月1日 04:45

Blackwell graphics cards plummet towards MSRP as deal season heats up

Three GPU models on sale out of nowhere on Newegg

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$650 buys lucky eBay shopper two Nvidia RTX 3090 GPUs instead of the 3080s they ordered — scoops Dell OEM cards worth thousands for a fraction of the price

作者 stephen.warwick@futurenet.com (Stephen Warwick)

2025年6月30日 18:33

This PC builder bought two RTX 3080 GPUs on eBay, but ended up receiving two RTX 3090 cards instead.

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Nvidia’s RTX 50 Super lineup leak hints at increased VRAM of up to 24GB and 415W TGP

作者 editors@tomshardware.com (Kunal Khullar)

2025年6月29日 20:14

Leaked specs suggest 18GB to 24GB of GDDR7 memory and performance gains, although official confirmation still pending.

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Nvidia's latest DLSS revision reduces VRAM usage by 20% for upscaling — optimizations reduce overhead of more powerful transformer model

作者 editors@tomshardware.com (Aaron Klotz)

2025年6月29日 01:36

Nvidia's latest version of the DLSS SDK provides VRAM optimizations to the transformer model, reducing its memory footprint by 20%.

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Even upscalers can't resuscitate a $10 GPU—13-year-old GTX 660 is so slow that FSR can't give it a boost

作者 editors@tomshardware.com (Aaron Klotz)

2025年6月28日 22:27

Nvidia's ancient GTX 660 was tested in a few modern titles to see whether or not FSR/XeSS upscaling could make the GPU output playable frame rates. Unfortunately, the GPU is so old that upscaling provided no FPS improvements at all in games that are still capable of running on the Kepler GPU.

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Asus's new BTF GPUs can now be used in standard systems courtesy of a detachable 1000W power connector — New 5090 and RTX 5070 Ti models have a dual personality

2025年6月28日 18:00

Asus lists the TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16GB GDDR7 BTF White Edition and ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 32GB GDDR7 BTF Edition on its website.

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RTX 5090 Founders Edition is now in stock in the UK — flagship GPU returns at MSRP

作者 stephen.warwick@futurenet.com (Stephen Warwick)

2025年6月27日 23:25

The Nvidia RTX 5090 Founder's Edition is back in stock in the UK at MSRP.

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RTX 5060 eGPU prototype brings Blackwell to handheld PCs — unit crams desktop-class power into the palm of a hand

作者 editors@tomshardware.com (Aaron Klotz)

2025年6月26日 18:00

The compact prototype is similar in size to RX 7600M XT-powered eGPU docks.

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Nvidia explains why its desktop RTX 5050 only uses GDDR6 memory instead of GDDR7 like the laptop version — 'G6 is the best choice for desktops and the more power efficient G7 is the best choice for laptops'

作者 editors@tomshardware.com (Aaron Klotz)

2025年6月26日 17:51

Nvidia has revealed why it used GDDR6 VRAM in the desktop version of its RTX 5050, despite the fact the laptop version comes with GDDR7

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Gigabyte prepares a low-profile RTX 5050 GPU — Designed for SFF and aging gaming rigs

2025年6月26日 00:25

Gigabyte has announced the GeForce RTX 5050 OC Low Profile 8G for compact systems.

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DLSS Transformer Model for DLSS 4 is out of beta as Nvidia looks to officially incorporate new model to improve image quality and efficiency

作者 editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir)

2025年6月25日 21:45

Nvidia's Transformer model for DLSS has exited the beta stage and will replace the CNN-based approach very soon with DLSS 4.

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Blacklisted Chinese GPU makers line up to file for IPOs as US sanctions and trade war take toll on AI hardware market

作者 ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov)

2025年6月25日 20:11

Amid rising demand for AI hardware in China and U.S. sanctions, China's GPU industry is rapidly expanding, with companies like Biren, Moore Threads, MetaX, and Zhaoxin pursuing IPOs to secure funding and strengthen their position.

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AMD researchers reduce graphics card VRAM capacity of 3D-rendered trees from 38GB to just 52 KB with work graphs and mesh nodes — shifting CPU work to the GPU yields tremendous results

作者 editors@tomshardware.com (Aaron Klotz)

2025年6月25日 18:31

AMD researchers have developed a new 3D tree rendering technology that can reduce video memory demands

AMD RDNA 4 and Radeon RX 9000-series GPUs

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How to use Steam’s in-game performance monitor to display real FPS with DLSS or FSR frame generation active

2025年6月25日 00:58

Valve’s new in-game performance monitor can report real and DLSS / FSR-generated frames at the same time.

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Nvidia launches $249 RTX 5050, putting Blackwell within reach of more gamers — entry-level 50-series arrives in late July

作者 editors@tomshardware.com (Aaron Klotz)

2025年6月25日 00:01

Nvidia finally unveils the RTX 5050, sporting 2,560 Blackwell CUDA cores, 8GB of GDDR6, and a 130W TGP. The new GPU represents Nvidia's first new xx50-class desktop card since the RTX 3050

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Rare Franken-GPU has both AMD and Nvidia branding — AMD Radeon GeForce RTX 9070 XT is the new ultimate midrange gaming champ

2025年6月24日 23:45

Redditor receives an Asus graphics card with both AMD and Nvidia branding.

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Asus RTX 5090 BTF 2.5 GPU successfully pulls over 1,900W in extreme test — proprietary metal power connector kept its cool, unlike plastic 16-pin alternative

2025年6月24日 02:50

Tony Yu, the General Manager of Asus China, explained how the ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 BTF GPU's power connectors work.

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RTX 5070 Ti falls below MSRP in the UK — grab one for less than £700 for the first time

作者 stephen.warwick@futurenet.com (Stephen Warwick)

2025年6月24日 00:42

The Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti has fallen below MSRP for the first time in the UK.

Tech Deals cover featuring two RTX 5070 Ti Graphics Cards.

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Disabling Intel Graphics Security Mitigations boosts compute performance — 20% uplift from setting change that even Intel employs, despite unknown security risk

作者 editors@tomshardware.com (Aaron Klotz)

2025年6月24日 00:38

Disabling security mitigations for Intel GPUs in Intel's GPU compute stack for OpenCL and Level Zero can allegedly boost performance by up to 20%.

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Nvidia RTX 5090 beats RTX Pro 6000 in tests after shunt mod to a staggering 800W — consumer flagship barely scrapes past the $10,000 Pro despite eye-watering power modification

2025年6月23日 19:33

An Asus ROG Astral LC RTX 5090 has been shunt modded, resulting in its performance eclipsing the $10,000 RTX Pro 6000

Der8auer shunt mods the Asus ROG Astral LC RTX 5090

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Iconic Nvidia GeForce 7800 GTX hits 20 years old today — PS3 GPU forbearer was 'graphics champion' of performance and efficiency in its day

2025年6月23日 00:03

The Nvidia GeForce 7800 GTX launched 20 years ago, today, and it marked a ground-breaking achievement at the time for the green team.

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Nvidia GPU owners may be losing performance because of a simple setting that's disabled by default — enabling Resizable Bar with Profile Inspector can enhance GPU performance by up to 10% in 3DMark

作者 editors@tomshardware.com (Aaron Klotz)

2025年6月22日 19:30

YouTuber JayzTwoCents discovered that manually enabling ReBAR in 3DMark can provide a 10% boost in performance, particularly on Intel Raptor Lake-based machines.

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China's first 6nm gaming GPU matches 13-year-old GTX 660 Ti in first Geekbench tests — Lisuan G100 surfaces with 32 CUs, 256MB VRAM, and 300 MHz clock speed

作者 editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir)

2025年6月22日 19:00

The Lisuan G100 has been spotted on Geekbench (OpenCL), where it outputs performance similar to the GTX 660 Ti. That's largely due to early drivers and silicon.

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Even PowerGPU's founder can't escape thermal gel leakage from the Gigabyte RTX 50-Series Master GPU

作者 editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales)

2025年6月21日 19:00

PowerGPU founder Jese Martinez discovered that his Gigabyte GPU is leaking its thermal gel after switching it out on his personal system.

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$200 GPU face-off: Nvidia RTX 3050, AMD RX 6600, and Intel Arc A750 duke it out at the bottom of the barrel

2025年6月21日 00:40

If you can’t spend more than around $200 on a discrete GPU, you have three choices these days. We dug in to see if any of them are worth your hard-earned cash.

$200 GPU Face-off: Nvidia vs AMD vs Intel

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Even Nvidia's China-specific RTX 5090D falls victim to the infamous 16-pin melting issue

2025年6月21日 00:37

Two GeForce RTX 5090D owners share their unfortunate experience with the 16-pin power connector meltdowns.

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Scam RTX 5090 bought for $2,000 missing entire GPU chip — crooks lifted the GPU die and memory right off the board

作者 editors@tomshardware.com (Aaron Klotz)

2025年6月20日 23:39

Northwestrepair received a Zotac RTX 5090 from a customer featuring a missing GPU core and memory chips. The new card represents a new scam where criminals steal RTX 5090 GPU cores and memory modules, leaving customers with a dead graphics card.

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ASRock preps Radeon RX AI Pro R9700 Creator for AI and workstation users — blower card packs massive 32GB of GDDR6 memory, adopts 16-pin connector

2025年6月20日 18:38

ASRock has launched the Radeon RX AI Pro R9700 Creator graphics card for the AI and workstation markets.

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Huawei's brute force AI tactic seems to be working — CloudMatrix 384 claimed to outperform Nvidia processors running DeepSeek R1

2025年6月20日 18:34

A new report says that Huawei's CloudMatrix 384 outperforms Nvidia processors running DeepSeek R1, which is to be expected given the energy use involved.

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Enthusiast hacks FSR 4 onto RX 7000 series GPU without official AMD support, returns better quality but slightly lower fps than FSR 3.1

作者 editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales)

2025年6月19日 01:26

A Reddit user used FP8 emulation and DLL injection techniques to run AMD's latest upscaling tech on unsupported hardware.

AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution slide deck

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VRAM-friendly neural texture compression inches closer to reality — enthusiast shows massive compression benefits with Nvidia and Intel demos

2025年6月18日 20:13

AI texture decompression promises better image quality, lower resource usage

An example image of a dinosaur produced using neural texture compression

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Nvidia planning new RTX 5090 'DD' variant for China — 24GB card with tweaked GPU latest attempt to comply with strict export restrictions

作者 editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir)

2025年6月18日 19:40

Following the alleged ban of the RTX 5090D in China, Nvidia is reportedly preparing a further cut-down alternative, dubbed the RTX 5090DD.

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The only MSRP RTX 5080 is back in stock in the UK — grab a Founders Edition straight from Nvidia for £949

作者 stephen.warwick@futurenet.com (Stephen Warwick)

2025年6月18日 19:02

The Nvidia RTX 5080 Founder's Edition is back in stock in the UK at MSRP.

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Asus' $10,000 ROG Astral Dhahab RTX 5090 gets a less-elite 5080 version with wider availability

作者 editors@tomshardware.com (Aaron Klotz)

2025年6月18日 02:41

Asus unveils RTX 5080 version of RTX 5090 Dhahab Edition, dubbed the ROG RTX 5080 Astral Dhahab Core. The new GPU uses the same 24K gold-plated ROG Astral cooler as the RTX 5090 version.