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
RTX 5090D tested with nine-years-old Xeon CPU that cost $7 — it does surprisingly well in some games, if you enable MFG
A Chinese tech reviewer benchmarked Nvidia’s all-new “for China” RTX 5090D against a variety of CPUs, from AMD’s flagship Ryzen 7 9800X3D, one of the best CPUs for gaming, to Intel’s Core Ultra 9 285K, and all the way down to a nine-years-old 14-core Xeon E5-2680 v4 based on the
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
RTX 5090 gets new $25 KryoSheet thermal pad option from Thermal Grizzly
Thermal Grizzly has updated its cooling solutions with an all-new 44 x 37mm KryoSheet optimized for the RTX 5090’s GB202 die. The new size costs $24.96 and comes with the KryoSheet and Kapton tape to protect the PCB and capacitors from electrocution. KryoSheet is a thermal paste alternative with a
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