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Not that you've been able to get one at MSRP anyway.

According to Chinese Board Channels and relayed by TechPowerUp, Nvidia may be preparing a price increase on the GeForce RTX 5090 and RTX 5090D V2 GPUs. Chinese Board Channels, "a reliable source for graphics card supply chain information," says that Nvidia will increase the price on these GPUs by roughly $300 for their add-in card (AIC) partners.

This price increase is the result of a drastic increase in...

This "rare" defect is hindering performance for early adopters.

Late last week, Nvidia confirmed that there was a "rare" manufacturing defect with early shipments of their new GeForce RTX 5090 and RTX 5070 Ti GPUs. The issue being that some cards shipped with fewer render output units (ROP) than they should have. This results in a fancy new graphics card that isn't able to actually meet the performance metrics that are advertised and sold.

ROPs work...

The new Nvidia 50 Series has officially launched.

The Nvidia RTX 50 Series is here with today's launch of the GeForce RTX 5090 and GeForce RTX 5080. Naturally, the cards all seem to be sold out already across online retailers and brick-and-mortar stores. This was probably expected because it basically happens every single time. You could always just hit up sites like eBay where you'll see either scalpers attempting to sell the card at a hefty premium, or you'll find people selling...

New desktop and laptop GPUs will begin releasing this month.

Nvidia officially revealed their newest lineup of consumer graphics cards yesterday at CES 2025. Built on their new Blackwell architecture, the GeForce RTX 50 Series of GPUs start at just $549 for the RTX 5070.

In addition to the RTX 5070 at $549, Nvidia announced the RTX 5070 Ti at $749, RTX 5080 at $999, and the RTX 5090 at $1,999. Both the 5080 and 5090 will be out starting January 30th. The 5070 and 5070...