Nvidia gaming GPUs an afterthought as AI generates mountains of cash — RTX 50-series shortages mentioned, not explained
Nvidia announced its fourth-quarter earnings last night, hitting a record full-year revenue of $130.5 billion — a 114% year-over-year increase owing to the high demand for its AI chips. But despite its massive sales growth, many gamers and enthusiasts feel they’re being ignored, especially as the company only mentioned the
Nvidia confirms Blackwell Ultra and Vera Rubin GPUs are on track for 2025 and 2026 — post-Rubin GPUs in the works
A design flaw delayed Nvidia’s rollout of Blackwell GPUs for data centers, prompting the company to redesign the silicon and packaging. However, this did not affect Nvidia’s work on mid-cycle refresh Blackwell 300-series (Blackwell Ultra) GPUs for AI and HPC and next-generation Vera Rubin GPUs. Nvidia can already share some
AMD appears unlikely to sell reference Radeon RX 9070, RX 9070 XT GPUs
AMD will announce the highly anticipated Radeon RX 9070-series graphics cards on February 28, seven days from now, at 8 AM ET via its YouTube channel. Many users are looking forward to this launch, hoping the price-to-performance ratio will be more palatable and readily available for purchase. AMD’s marketing materials
Nvidia brings back scalper-beating Verified Priority Access program for RTX 50 Founders Edition GPUs
Nvidia this week launched its Verified Priority Access for the GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition and GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition add-in-boards allowing a limited number of verified U.S. customers to purchase some of the best graphics cards directly from the Nvidia Marketplace without any hassle. To qualify, users must
PhysX quietly retired on RTX 50 series GPUs: Nvidia ends 32-bit CUDA app support
Nvidia has quietly retired 32-bit PhysX support on RTX 50 series GPUs — a game-specific graphics technology that was advertised heavily during the 2000s and early 2010s. Nvidia confirmed the technology’s end-of-life status (at least the 32-bit version) on the Nvidia forums as a result of 32-bit CUDA applications support
AMD is rumored to hold an RDNA 4 launch event later this month — RX 9000 GPUs still planned for March
New information suggests that AMD might be planning a launch event for its Radeon RX 9070 series GPUs by the end of February, per Benchlife. While the GPUs themself are still slated for a March release, this could be an excellent opportunity to learn more about the ins and outs
Nvidia’s new Smooth Motion technology is exclusive to RTX 5000 series GPUs, but not for long – RTX 4000 series support incoming
Nvidia’s Smooth Motion replicates AMD’s Fluid Motion Frames, a driver-based version of Frame Generation This will allow you to activate Frame Generation in games that don’t have native support The feature only works in DX11 and DX12 games as of now Nvidia is firing on all cylinders this generation, with
DeepSeek might not be as disruptive as claimed, firm reportedly has 50,000 Nvidia GPUs and spent $1.6 billion on buildouts
Chinese startup DeepSeek recently took center stage in the tech world with its startlingly low usage of compute resources for its advanced AI model called R1, a model that is believed to be competitive with Open AI’s o1 despite the company’s claims that DeepSeek only cost $6 million and 2,048
Exacluster with 144 Nvidia H200 AI GPUs detailed by its designer: Hydra Host enters the scene
Earlier this month, we reported on ExaAILabs’s Exacluster, a cluster of 18 machines running 144 Nvidia H200 GPUs, which happens to be one of the first clusters based on these processors. Since then, Hydra Host, the company that facilitated the construction of the cluster, has given us additional details about
