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.
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Radeon RX 9070 XT’s cheapest US stock is $870, 45% above its $599 MSRP
The cheapest in-stock Radeon RX 9070 XT at US shops is $870, up from a $720 daily median on August 19. Newegg lists it at $900 and Amazon at $940, against a $599 launch MSRP.
Valve’s changelog lists 18 fixes for Proton 11 regressions in Experimental, none in stable 11.0-2
Valve's Proton changelog puts 18 Proton 11 regression fixes under Experimental and none in stable 11.0-2. They include Deus Ex: Mankind Divided on AMD GPUs and Lords of The Fallen.
Drivers & Software roundup: NVIDIA’s security bulletin lists 114 vulnerabilities, and a new driver still patches decade-old GeForce cards
NVIDIA's new security driver still reaches decade-old GeForce cards, while a modder's untested build routes DLSS onto AMD Radeon RX 9000 GPUs.
Why Anyone Still Buys the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB When the RX 9070 XT Costs the Same
US street prices put the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB near the RX 9070 XT, while our native 1440p/4K suite says the XT is about 64% faster. Here is when the Ti still makes sense.
Leaker Says Nvidia’s Rubin GPUs Slip to 2028, Over Three Years After RTX 50
Two independent leakers say Nvidia's Rubin GPUs and AMD's RDNA5 won't arrive before 2028, pushed back by the ongoing GDDR7 and DRAM memory shortage.
AMD Says Its EPYC Chips Beat NVIDIA’s New Vera CPU 3.4x in a Modeled Rack
AMD's new EPYC white paper claims a 3.4x rack-throughput lead over Nvidia's unreleased Vera CPU, up from 2.37x three months ago, on a revised benchmark mix.
RTX 5070 and RX 9070 XT Both Climb Toward Their Priciest US Levels, Near $850
Both cards' latest US prices sit within a few dollars of their 90-day highs, each up about 4 percent over the past two weeks.
Qwen 3.8 27B Needs Two RTX 5090s for Full Context
Weights that fit in 32GB still left the RTX 5090 waiting half an hour for a first token, and the fix was a different inference engine rather than a different card.
GeForce On Streams Today With DLSS 4.5 Expected, and Zen 6 Reaches Linux Early
NVIDIA's Gamescom stream airs with DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction widely expected, and AMD's Zen 6 overclocking plumbing reaches the Linux kernel months ahead of the silicon.