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
You can now apply for the 'opportunity to purchase' an RTX 5090 or 5080 from NVIDIA
While graphics cards have been getting almost ludicrously over the years, it’s also been increasingly difficult to actually . In an effort to address this problem, NVIDIA has introduced a plan it’s calling Verified Priority Access for its recently released GeForce RTX 50 series of GPUs. Verified Priority Access offers
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
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 and 5090 prototypes exposed — development and testing cards had four 16-pin power connectors
A leaker from the Chipell forums (via HXL) published images of Nvidia-designed PCBs (printed circuit boards) that were used to bring up the new Blackwell RTX 50-series GPUs while the company was developing its latest graphics cards. The boards feature debugging interfaces alongside overwhelming power delivery circuitry, with the latter
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
