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.

A GPL tool restores the HBM2e NVIDIA disabled on the CMP 170HX mining card, and Hydra's preview build raises RTX 50 memory clocks and power limits. What each one unlocks, and what it costs to use.

A spec sheet answers fewer questions than it looks like it does. CUDA core counts do not compare across generations, a narrow bus is not always a weakness, and the same name can hide different silicon. Here is how to read NVIDIA GPU specs so the numbers stop misleading you.

AMD's MI455X and 72-GPU Helios rack finally challenge NVIDIA at the system level, but peak specifications are only the start of the comparison.