The RTX 5090 Makes a Vengeful Comeback, This Time Near $8,000
YouTubers said the RTX 5090 was finished. NVIDIA said it was not. Then the card vanished, and came back costing more.
Tag Blackwell
RTX 5080’s US median price rises 34% in 19 days to $2,225, 2.2 times its MSRP
The RTX 5080's US daily median went from $1,659 on October 6 to $2,225 on October 25, against a $999 MSRP. Recent days rest on one or two captures, and the 90-day median is still $1,600.
Drivers & Software roundup: Panchovix says its loader runs edited RTX VBIOS without flashing, with an RTX 4090 limit set to 671 W
Developer Panchovix says a GitHub loader runs edited VBIOS on GeForce RTX cards without flashing, with one RTX 4090 at 671 W. A separate Radeon mod now adds DLSS Frame Generation.
Some RTX 5090 Buyers Reportedly Sign “NO EXPORT, NO EXCEPTIONS” Before Checkout
Buying a GeForce RTX 5090 used to involve a credit card, a car, and a small prayer to the stock gods. At some stores it now also involves a photo ID and a signed declaration that the card stays in…
PNY reportedly denies a warranty claim on a melted RTX 5090 over a PSU cable its support called fine
PNY's reply, as the owner posted it, covers only the bundled adapter, but another owner who asked was told the PSU's own cable is fine. A DLSS 5 test pushed an RTX 5090's connector to 91.7°C.
Three 8-Pin Cables Carried 900 Watts Into an RTX 5090
A stripped-down Galax RTX 5090 ran to 900W on three ordinary 8-pin connectors with the wires at 35 degrees C, and a second modder finally built the 16GB RTX 3070 Ti that NVIDIA never shipped.
DLSS 5 Takes a Fixed Slice of Every Frame No Setting Can Shrink
Independent on-versus-off testing puts a number on DLSS 5 Neural Rendering, NVIDIA commits to Ada support later, and AMD and Intel both ship game-support drivers.
RTX Spark N1X Brings Up to 128GB of Unified Memory to October Laptops
NVIDIA set October for RTX Spark, split the N1X into a 32GB and a 128GB tier, and shipped a router that spreads agent work across the PCs already on a home network.
NVIDIA Counts Generated Frames in Its First DLSS 5 Benchmarks
NVIDIA's first DLSS 5 charts show output frame rates, and the render rates behind them are a lot lower. The Game Ready driver it needs also has a flicker bug in testing.
This Month’s Real GPU Upgrades Arrived in Software, Not Silicon
With memory prices high and no new mainstream GPU worth queuing for, the gains this cycle landed in drivers and tools, not silicon: FSR 4.1 reaching older Radeon cards, driver strings hinting at 8x frame generation, and an Afterburner heatmap that shows where a GPU really runs on its voltage/frequency curve.