Tag: Computing Components
AMD RX 9070 gets a rumored March 23 release date, but I’m not buying it (the date, that is, not the graphics card)
Pre-orders should go live for AMD’s RX 9070 GPUs on March 23, according to one US retailer There are a couple of reasons why this is likely wrong, though We’ve also seen more strangeness around the previously rumored January 23 launch for RDNA 4, as an ad campaign appears to…
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New Nvidia RTX 5080 benchmark rumor has got me worried that the GPU won’t be a major upgrade to the RTX 4080
Purported Nvidia RTX 5080 Geekbench results have been shared They suggest roughly a 20% gen-on-gen uplift compared to the RTX 4080 However, the RTX 5080 appears to come up short compared to the older RTX 4090 With the RTX 5090 now reviewed and fully evaluated – as an undoubtedly powerful…
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Where to buy Nvidia RTX 5090: launch day is today, and these are the retailers I’d check
Refresh 2025-01-30T10:09:10.344Z Now, given the sky-high price of the RTX 5090, any pre-built PC containing this GPU is going to be… not cheap, to say the least. In order to avoid immediate system bottlenecking, you’ll need a robust spec list: this 3XS Vengeance RTX model from Scan in the UK…
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Where to buy Nvidia RTX 5090: these are the retailers I recommend you check
Refresh 2025-01-23T14:04:22.481Z (Image credit: Future) Our Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 review is now live! Our components editor, John Loeffler, gave it 4.5 stars, calling it “the supercar of graphics cards”. He did knock it a bit for its “obscene” power consumption, which exceeded 550W in his testing, but praised its…
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Where to buy Nvidia RTX 5080: I’d check for stock here first
2025-01-23T11:03:59.633Z One thing we can already talk about is the new physical design of Nvidia’s next-gen graphics cards. The high-end Founders Edition cards of the RTX 4000 generation rightly received some flak from gamers and reviewers alike for being… a little chunky, to say the least. Notably, only the 4070…
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A possible Nvidia RTX 5090 prototype shows what might have been – an absolute monster with nearly 25K CUDA cores and an 800W TDP
The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 is already shaping up to be a beast of a GPU, given the specs unveiled at CES 2025, but if a new report is correct, it could have been even more of a monster. A well-regarded rumor miller, HXL, shared a post on the Chinese…
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