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.

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 4.5 Ray Reconstruction reached the NVIDIA app behind an Early Access opt-in, 616.56 ended a 29-day driver gap on a new branch that quietly changes OpenCL's default compiler, and Gamescom filled September with promises.

GeForce NOW's native Linux app graduated from beta and Chromebooks gained full library access the same day four games shipped or previewed DLSS 4.5, while the Game Ready driver stayed quiet for a third week running.

The GeForce News feed stayed silent for a second straight week, so the only real GeForce story came off the corporate blog: August's GeForce NOW lineup and a DLSS 4.5 deadline that just opened.

Week ending August 3: the GeForce channel stayed quiet after 610.88, so NVIDIA's news came from the corporate blog instead, from cloud streaming to the CPU it uses to design its own chips.

The RTX 50 series pairs a real feature jump, GDDR7, PCIe 5.0, DisplayPort 2.1, and DLSS 4 Multi Frame Generation, with a node that did not change and a launch that went sideways on connectors and missing ROPs. This guide maps the whole Blackwell stack and what each name actually buys.

The RTX 40 lineup is bigger and messier than it looks: a renamed card, a mid-cycle SUPER refresh, and a laptop naming scheme that hides very different silicon behind familiar numbers. This guide maps the whole Ada Lovelace stack so you can tell what each name actually buys.

The RTX 4090 is still the card the rest of the market is measured against, which makes it a tempting used buy. Here are its verified specs, the real story behind the 12VHPWR connector, and the inspection points that separate a clean card from an expensive mistake.

The first edition of a weekly digest of NVIDIA's own GeForce announcements. This one catches up on July 2026: three R610 drivers, DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction due in August, the RTX Spark mini-workstation, and NVIDIA App capture upgrades, with every claim linked back to NVIDIA's own post and separated into shipped now versus promised later.