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
Prototype RTX 50-series power connector designed to prevent melting with current overload alarm, per-pin sensing
With the resurgence of the connector meltdown scare, users who were lucky enough to snag an RTX 50 GPU at launch have been worried their card is next on the chopping block. A detailed analysis of Nvidia’s connector design this generation shows several blind spots and obvious design setbacks versus
PhysX feature unlocked for RTX 5090 with RTX 3050 ‘helper’ to enable full performance
A few days ago, it came to light that Nvidia has dropped support for 32-bit CUDA applications with its latest RTX 50-series (Blackwell) GPUs. Support for PhysX has gradually faded over the years. However, PhysX can still be offloaded to an RTX 40-series (Ada Lovelace) or older GPU, and that’s
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
China-exclusive RX 7650 GRE is around 7% faster than a RTX 4060
Finally, a review of the RX 7650 GRE was published, showcasing how the card performs against the RTX 4060 (its main competitor). In a review by Expreview, the new GRE-branded card was, on average, 7% faster than the RTX 4060 in several games. The RX 7650 GRE, launched earlier this
Official RTX 4090 power cable found melted by reviewer 2 years later — card functioned fine despite hidden melted connector
Nvidia’s decision to use the 16-pin (12VHPWR) power connector for its highest-powered GPUs has been popular for all the wrong reasons this week. Reports of melting cables in RTX 5090 GPUs are reaching a fever pitch. Greek PC gaming site Dark Side of Gaming checked its last-gen RTX 4090 power
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
First credible report of RTX 5090 FE with melted connector appears — third-party cable likely cause
One of the first credible reports of a melted power cable on the RTX 5090 has been posted on Reddit (h/t VideoCardz). According to u/ivan6953, they were playing Battlefield 5 on their gaming PC, with a power draw of 500 to 520 watts during that time, when they suddenly smelled
