The RTX 5090 Makes a Vengeful Comeback, This Time Near $8,000
In many countries, including the US, the RTX 5090 was hard to find for up to 20 days. It is back in a few listings, at higher prices than before it left.
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EA Closed BioWare, but BioWare Left Its Players First
EA shut BioWare down this week. The studio behind Knights of the Old Republic and Dragon Age had been losing its players for ten years before that.
How Nvidia Turned Gamers into Its R&D Budget
From Sega's rescue money to CUDA and Tensor Cores, Nvidia has spent 20 years building its future into gaming cards and having gamers pay for it.
Modders Report 2x Peak Tensor Throughput on the RTX 4090 After a Firmware Unlock
OpenAI reports GPT-6.1 Terra solves 50.3% of Terminal-Bench 4.0 tasks at half the API price of its predecessor
RTX 5080’s US median price rises 34% in 19 days to $2,225, 2.2 times its MSRP
Mistral bills Voxtral 3 as state-of-the-art transcription in 50+ languages, with voice agents from $0.04 a minute
AMD brings FSR 4.1 to six Radeon RX 6000 families from 2020 and calls it a significant leap over FSR 3.1
Drivers & Software roundup: Panchovix says its loader runs edited RTX VBIOS without flashing, with an RTX 4090 limit set to 671 W
AI & Compute roundup: Hugging Face runs Meta’s 816B open model at 18 tokens a second on one 512GB Mac
NVIDIA reports its October DLSS 5 model halves GPU overhead and lifts NBA 2K27 frame rates by up to 1.4X
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