GPU News, Tips, Tricks & Ideas

There's nothing worse than the sinking feeling of disappointment you get after purchasing a shiny new graphics card when you realize that it doesn't work correctly. Before you lose your cool and return it, follow these troubleshooting tips to make sure the card was installed correctly.

The AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS CPU and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GPU are a lethal pairing when found in a gaming laptop, delivering incredible single-core, multi-core, and increased graphical performance in a wide variety of tasks, benchmarks, and, of course, games. When these cutting-edge parts are found in the ASUS TUF Gaming A15, which is now $300 off on Amazon, you should consider it the deal of a lifetime if you are looking for a capable machine that you can take with you for long periods away from the wall.

The latest 12V-2x6 "H++" power connector recently made debut on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 SUPER series GPUs and offers slightly higher power delivery versus the existing 12VHPWR "H+" connectors.

NVIDIA is prepping a new entry-level and small form factor workstation GPU, the RTX 2000 Ada, & most likely feature a sub-75W TDP.

Ever wanted a high-end workstation equipped with an NVIDIA GPU and NVIDIA CPU? Well, GPTshop has made it possible with its new line of workstation PC offerings which start at over $40,000 US as they come equipped with powerful Grace Hopper Superchip hardware.

NVIDIA RTX GPU users unite - a modder has released a free new Elden Ring DLSS 3.5 mod which improves performance.

AMD's Radeon RX 7800 XT is now available for its lowest price as Team Red ramps up the competition in the respective price segment.

AMD's Radeon RX 6750 GRE GPU has been making highlights in China as Team Red implements "strict" price control measures to ensure a balanced supply.

Forza Motorsport's upcoming update is a big one, introducing several performance optimizations for the racing game's PC version.

Disturbed by the noises produced by your graphics card? Fear not, since a Redditor has found an "interesting" cooling solution, and it would only require slapping ten different radiators on a single GPU.

AMD's recently released Instinct MI300X accelerators have taken the AI market by storm, as it is causing "headaches" for competitors due to their appeal in the industry

Intel has released its latest Arc GPU driver which delivers substantial performance gains in DX12 and DX11 games, going all the way up to 268%.

The Finals has received a new patch which makes major balance changes to the Medium build and more.

AMD has officially launched its brand new RDNA 3 GPU, the Radeon RX 7600 XT, which comes with a faster-clocked core and 16 GB of VRAM at $329.

The first benchmarks of NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER GPU have been leaked and they show similar performance as the 4080 Non-SUPER.

NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 40 GPUs are being repurposed in a range of ways with some repurposing mobility dies for desktops & others simply scamming people online.

Benchmarks of NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4070 TI SUPER GPU have been leaked & its about as fast as a RTX 4080.

AMD has silently started dropping the prices of its Radeon RX 7000 "RDNA 3" GPUs to compete against NVIDIA's SUPER family & the RX 7900 XT is the first to see this pricing update with a new MSRP set at $749 US.

For PC gamers, there isn't a more important component than a graphics card, but it can be tough to find the best graphics card for you. GPU reviews don't always tell the full story, and tracking down the graphics card that offers the best value between cost and performance isn't as simple as shopping online.

With a few days until the release of its latest graphics card, tech giant Nvidia confirmed that the upcoming GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER will have 48MB of L2 cache, which is 12MB more than previously stated. This boosted specification means that, for gaming performance, the new Nvidia GPU will receive more of a boost than initially stated.

NVIDIA has secured a huge AI order from the Indian data center operator Yotta, as total order valuation is expected to exceed the $ billion mark.

NVIDIA has confirmed that the upcoming GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER GPU comes equipped with the full 48 MB L2 cache for AD104 chips.

While Nvidia and AMD duke it out to be supreme GPU champion in the PC gaming world, Intel is also here. Just smiling and waving. The chip firm entered the GPU arena back in 2022, and now it’s a little closer to completing the next iteration of its Arc brand.

NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 40 SUPER GPU performance and value figures have been presented in an alleged presentation to retailers in Vietnam.

HP has introduced the HP Omen Transcend 14 laptop, alongside a lineup of notebooks, at the ongoing Consumer Electronics Show (CES). The latest 14-inch Omen series gaming laptop from HP has been launched alongside HP Omen Transcend 16, Omen 16, and Victus 16.1. HP claims that the Omen Transcend 14 is the world's coolest and lightest 14-inch laptop. The gaming laptop features an OLED display, local AI capabilities, and an RGB backlit keyboard. The Omen Transcend 14 laptop runs on the latest Intel Core Ultra chipsets and comes in two different colour options.

Power supplies meeting new standards have made an appearance over at CES 2024, which hope to finally put an end to concerns over melted power connectors. 

NVIDIA has announced a giveaway of its brand new GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER GPU and this one is signed by its CEO, Jensen Huang.

Along with the promise that its next generation Arrow Lake desktop CPUs will be coming to market in the second half of 2024, Intel also announced that another new architecture will arrive this year, too. Lunar Lake will be an evolution of Meteor Lake and, although it's squarely aimed to be as low-power as possible, Intel is also claiming significant improvements to the CPU core's IPC (instruction per cycle) and up to three times more AI performance in the GPU and NPU.

At CES 2024, we were able to get our first hands-on look at several NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER GPUs including the Founders Edition.

CES 2024 is finally here and the hardware announcements are beginning to roll in thick and fast. However, even if you're not in the market for some new tech, those of you of a streaming persuasion and an Nvidia GPU may have some reason to celebrate today, as the company announced a raft of streaming features and Twitch integrations to be rolled out in the new Twitch Enhanced Broadcasting beta as part of today's Nvidia special address.

NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER brings flagship gaming performance down to a $599 US price point with all the Ada Lovelace goodness.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER is the second GPU in the SUPER stack and is priced to aim the AMD 7900 XT for $799 US.

NVIDIA has unleashed its brand new gaming beast, the GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER GPU, which comes for $999 US & tackles AMD's 7900 XTX.

At CES 2024, AMD had several announcements under its sleeve, including a new desktop GPU in its Radeon RX 7000 series.

Alleged prices of NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 40 "SUPER" GPUs have leaked out including the 4080 SUPER, 4070 Ti SUPER & 4070 SUPER.

Benchmarks of NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER GPU have been leaked and it shows up almost as fast as the RTX 4070 Ti.

AMD is reportedly going to push back the launch of its upcoming Radeon RX 7600 XT 16 GB GPU in China as it tries to avoid a clash between its lineup.

The AMD Ryzen 5 5600GT & 5500GT "AM4" Desktop CPUs have been listed once again &  seemingly feature higher boost frequencies.

Sapphire has released a premium variant of the Radeon RX 6750 GRE known as Black Diamond which offers great looks & an RTX 4060-beating price.

NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 40 SUPER GPU specs have once again leaked out and point out to the RTX 4080 SUPER utilizing the fastest GDDR6X memory.

NVIDIA has officially launched its GeForce RTX 4090 D graphics card in China which comes with very similar performance as the original RTX 4090.

AMD's Radeon RX 7600 XT GPU is reportedly going to launch in late January and will target the budget segment in the $300 US segment.

Bluesky Frame Converter has "doubled" the performance of rate conversion of AMD's Radeon RX 7000 & 6000 "RDNA" GPUs in a new update.

Streacom has unveiled its SG10 passive-cooled PC case with up to 600W cooling power and is hitting retail next year for $1320 US.

Seasonic, a widely popular PSU brand, has recommended its customers use a hair dryer when bending a 12VHPWR or 12V-2x6 connector cable.

CableMod has recalled its entire 12VHPWR angled connector products including the ones it revised recently to prevent user harm and GPU damage.

AMD has confirmed its upcoming Ryzen 7 5700 CPU which is based on the Cezanne APU die & lacks an integrated graphics solution.

MSI Ventus RTX 4060 Ti | 8GB GDDR6 | 4352 shaders | 2,535MHz boost | $399.99$359.99 at Newegg with promo code VGAEXCMSJZ577 and $20 rebate (save $40)The RTX 4060 Ti might have had a bit of a rocky reception with that 8GB of VRAM, but we found it performed very well in our review and it makes a very solid mid-range performer, particularly with the ability to take advantage of DLSS 3 and Frame Generation. This is a small twin-fan model that should still run cool and quiet, and delivers a lot of gaming performance in super-efficient fashion.

Intel has reaffirmed that its next-gen Arc Xe2 "Battlemage" discrete GPUs are heading for launch in the coming year.

Lenovo's upcoming Legion Pro 5 laptop featuring the 14th Gen Intel Core i9-14900HX flagship CPU has been listed by a retailer for $1800 US.

A Chinese laptop maker has put together a unique configuration that offers up to a 64 Core AMD EPYC CPU, NVIDIA RTX 40 Desktop GPUs & liquid cooling.

AMD has responded to NVIDIA's H100 TensorRT-LLM figures with the MI300X once again leading in the AI benchmarks when running optimized software.

Today is a big day as Intel launches its next-generation Core Ultra CPU family codenamed Meteor Lake, bringing some major design changes.

Intel's technically unified both its Arc discrete and integrated graphics drivers, meaning that all the performance boosts we've seen benefitting the Arc A750 and A770 (less said about the Arc A580 the better) will arrive on its new integrated GPUs around the same time. 

The PlayStation 5 Pro specs that were leaked a couple of days back may not entirely be accurate, as some of them would create some rather serious issues.

Benchmarks of AMD's upcoming Hawk Point Flagship APU, the Ryzen 9 8945HS & Ryzen 5 8645HS, have leaked out & showcase strong performance against the competition.

AMD has enabled further support for its next-gen RDNA 4 "GFX12" GPUs in Linux, as Team Red adds new patches for their AMDGPU LLVM shader compiler.

NVIDIA has added support for its upcoming RTX 5880 Ada GPU in its latest drivers which is designed as a high-end workstation solution.

NVIDIA's China-Exclusive GeForce RTX 4090 D Gaming GPU might not offer overclocking support while shipping with cut-down specifications.

AMD has officially introduced its latest Ryzen 8000 APUs codenamed Hawk Point, which refreshes the existing Ryzen 7000 "Phoenix" APUs.

AMD has announced the official launch of its flagship AI GPU accelerator, the MI300X, which offers up to 60% better performance than NVIDIA's H100.

AMD has released its brand new Adrenalin 23.12.1 Radeon GPU Driver which adds support for Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora & several HYPR-RX and UI-related upgrades.

The Steam hardware survey provides a general idea of the specs PC gamers are playing with — a little window into hardware expectations and trends to expect. More often than not, we see how much Nvidia creams the competition, and the latest data shows Team Green still dominates.

A little over a week ago, an AMD patent titled Distributed Geometry was published by the US Patent Office, the patent itself was filed by AMD in April this year. The patent details a fully chiplet approach to GPUs, where the rendering workload is distributed across a collection of chips, rather than having one massive die handling all of the processing. There's no indication that we'll see this employed in a Radeon graphics card any time soon, of course, but it's the natural evolution of what we've already seen in RDNA 3.

ASUS's high-end ROG Zephyrus laptops with Intel's top Meteor Lake "Core Ultra" CPUs & NVIDIA's RTX 40 discrete GPUs have been spotted.

STALKER 2 developer GSC Game World was recently interviewed by the Chinese website GamerSky. Among various questions, the development team commented on the current Q1 2024 launch window.

NVIDIA is bringing the flagship gaming back to China with the soon-to-launch GeForce RTX 4090 D GPU which fully complies with US export policies.

Intel's next-generation Arrow Lake-H CPUs for laptops are already being sampled as one 16-core configuration has been spotted in a shipping manifesto.

Intel's Arrow Lake CPUs which are expected to arrive next year will come with a slightly upgraded Arc Xe-LPG Plus GPU which offers XMX acceleration.

ASUS's unique Dual RTX 4060 Ti GPU featuring an M.2 SSD slot is finally available for sale and the company has demoed it with some of the fastest Gen5 storage devices and even ran an RTX 4090 off of it which was being run as an eGPU.

A boatload of details surrounding the 2024 iPad Pro have been shared by a known tipster, with one part of the information claiming that Apple is also expected to launch a larger 14.1-inch iPad Pro that will ship with a mini-LED panel, not an OLED one. Additional claims state that all three tablets will be treated to Apple’s latest M3, along with a few tidbits about their features. However, the tipster does the responsible bit by preparing his readers that the information shared might be sketchy.

NVIDIA's AIB partners are now focusing are reducing their inventories of GeForce RTX 4080 & RTX 4070 GPUs as the "SUPER" launch approaches.

The latest update for Bethesda sci-fi RPG Starfield is here, and it brings much-anticipated DLSS 3 support to the game. Bethesda has been testing DLSS 3 in beta for the last couple of weeks, but now it’s available to all players. Other bullet points include improved GPU optimization, particularly for higher-end cards, the fixing of some memory leaks, the ability to chow down on the various food items you find around the world, and, of course, plenty of good ol’ stability and performance improvements.

Intel's hype around next-gen Lunar Lake architecture just fueled up since a "huge" leak now discloses details around the lineup's "MX-mobile" variants.

The Korean memory manufacturer SK Hynix has decided to break from the industry's tradition of semiconductor development, as they plan to integrate memory and logic semiconductors on the same die.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 GPUs are now more expensive than ever with prices touching close to $2000 US despite being on sale.

Qualcomm has finally lifted the curtains off the Snapdragon 7 Gen 3, and it brings a number of improvements over its predecessors. For starters, the processor is fabricated on TSMC's 4nm process and has a 1+3+4 CPU configuration. The Kryo CPU offers a prime core clocked at 2.63GHz, you also have 3x performance cores running at 2.4GHz, and there are four efficiency cores running at a modest 1.8GGHz.

AMD's flagship Radeon RX 7900M "RDNA 3" laptop GPU has been benchmarked and it is faster than NVIDIA's RTX 4090 Laptop chip in Vulkan tests.

The first benchmarks of Intel's upcoming Meteor Lake "Arc" integrated GPU have been leaked and it shows performance on par with Radeon 780M.