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.
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Control Resonant’s 1080p Minimum Already Assumes an Upscaler
Every one of Remedy's six requirement tiers carries an upscaler preset, including the GTX 1070 minimum, and nothing in the table asks past 12GB of VRAM.
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.
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.
The Revived RTX 3060 Costs More Than a Faster Card
Two months after the RTX 3060 12GB came back, it lists above a faster RTX 5050. NVIDIA’s $279 billion in purchase commitments explains where the memory went.
The CMP 170HX Gives Back 56GB, and Hydra Lifts RTX 50’s Memory Ceiling
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.
The Memory Crunch Reaches Budget GPUs, and the Grey Market Picks Up a Soldering Iron
PC Partner says entry-level cards get scarcer and dearer through 2026, while modded RTX 3080s and a $25-per-gigabyte VRAM service show the second-hand market adapting faster than the first-hand one.
The $279 RX 9050’s First Numbers, and Steam’s 16GB Milestone Has an Asterisk
The first RX 9050 review puts AMD's $279 card about 30 percent behind the RTX 5050, and Steam's July survey crowns 16GB of VRAM with a platform-mix asterisk.