GPU Architecture
New cards, leaked SKUs, and the silicon under the cooler.
Reported RTX 5090 markup traces to GDDR7 supply
The NVIDIA RTX 5090 product page lists 21,760 CUDA cores and 32 GB of GDDR7 but prints no price, leaving the reported 370 percent markup unconfirmed by the vendor.
RTX 50 price hikes of up to $500 land in November
The Colorful RTX 5090D v2 is up $330 to $500, the RTX 5080 up $380 to $450, and the Galax/KFA2 5060 up $30, per per-SKU deltas ChannelGate posted on November 3, 2026.
The RTX 5080 24GB kit still has not gone out
BenchLife says board partners still had no design kit for a 24GB GeForce RTX 5080 at the end of October. The line that there would be no new product in 2026 belongs to a leaker. Jensen Huang did not say it.
The B770 moves from roadmap to repository
The Arc B770 has crossed from rumor into validated silicon, with three independent traces now pointing to a 32 Xe2 core, 16 GB, 300 W Big Battlemage card in final pre-launch phase ahead of CES 2026.
Global GPU street prices rise 35 percent in three months
Global GPU street prices rose 35 percent over three months, according to Hardware Unboxed's October survey.
RX 10950 XTX rumor: 3.1 to 3.4 GHz on RDNA 5
A Gamer Meld short calls a Radeon RX 10950 XTX the biggest upgrade in Radeon history. The post under that name says AMD is targeting 3.1 to 3.4 GHz with RDNA 5. AMD has not announced the card.
Nvidia Rubin sheet lowers HBM4 and NVLink bandwidth
The Rubin Superchip sheet now lists 38.5 TB/s of combined HBM4 bandwidth for the two-GPU package, down from the earlier 44 TB/s figure.
AMD MI455X ships 432 GB HBM4 on CoWoS-L at Advancing AI 2026
AMD's MI400 product page names the MI455X with 432 GB HBM4 and 40 PFLOPS FP4 per GPU, but states no price, no TDP, and no process node.
Zagita kernel module lifts RTX 3090 Ti BF16 dense GEMM
At 450 W, the dense GEMM run is the condition behind the rise.
Intel arc pro B70 brings 32 GB to battlemage pro
Memory leads the Arc Pro B70 dossier, with 32 GB of GDDR6 and no measured benchmark score.
RTX 6060 timeline points to 2029 behind high-end RTX 60 cards
Kepler_L2 says the RTX 6060 will launch later than the high-end RTX 60 cards, pointing to a 2029 arrival after the high-end line moves to 2028.
AMD MI455X pairs 432 GB HBM4 with 23.3 TB/s peak bandwidth
The AMD Instinct MI455X GPU carries 432 GB of HBM4 across 12 stacks with a peak theoretical memory bandwidth of 23.3 TB/s, per AMD's MI400 series product page.
RTX Spark superchip pairs Blackwell GPU and Grace CPU in a 128GB unified-memory laptop
NVIDIA's RTX Spark laptops ship October 16, 2026, from six OEMs at a $2,599 entry price, built on a single superchip with up to 128GB of unified memory.
PowerColor low-profile RX 9050 leak marks the first LP design
Low-profile is the change, and the leak only names it. The 92 W reference number does not prove PowerColor can fit the same board into a shorter bracket.
Intel's Battlemage flagship falls back to BMG G31
The later BMG G31 filing points to 32 Xe cores, 24 or 32 MB of L2 cache, and a high 2 GHz boost.
Intel Arc Battlemage leak doubles core count and triples L2 over A770
Notebookcheck.biz filed a report on 29 March 2023 carrying RedGamingTech figures for the Arc Battlemage: 64 Xe cores, 48 MB L2, and a clock above 3 GHz.
The 24GB RTX 5080: 8 extra gigabytes decide which model runs
A 24GB variant of the RTX 5080 would carry 1024 GB/s of memory bandwidth against 960 GB/s on the 16GB card, a roughly 7% gain, and the extra 8GB lets a 32-billion-parameter model at 4-bit weights run with room for context that the 16GB card cannot provide.
Battlemage G10 leak trims clock and grows die
A 2.8 GHz boost clock replaces the 3 GHz figure in the Battlemage G10 leak, and the die now exceeds the Arc A770 and RTX 4080 in area.
Navi 48 leak changes the midrange power math
That draw comes with 50 TFLOPs, 64 compute units, a 256-bit bus, 693 GB/s of memory bandwidth, and a 240 mm2 die.
BMG-G31 leaks in a GitHub repo with 32 Xe2 cores and 300W TDP
Vgtimes.com filed a GitHub-sourced spec sheet for Intel's BMG-G31 chip on January 5, listing 32 Xe2 cores, 16GB GDDR6, and a 300W TDP with no Intel confirmation attached.
Intel Arc B580 reference adds PCIe 5.0 x8 and 12 GB GDDR6
The Haze2K1 sheet gives the Arc B580 a PCIe 5.0 x8 interface and 12 GB GDDR6, while core count and price stay open.
NVLink board turns V100 cluster into a long-prompt inference win
A modified NVLink carrier board lets four V100s clear the M5 Ultra in a long-prompt Qwen3.8-Flash-Next 4-bit run.
AMD RDNA 5 reveal may slip past Computex 2027
Kepler_L2 says AMD RDNA 5 graphics cards are unlikely to be revealed before Computex 2027 and more likely later in 2027, and the page tags it as a rumor.
Surface Laptop Ultra and the gap between $2,599 and 128 GB
Surface Laptop Ultra opens at $2,599 with a Blackwell GPU, Grace CPU, and up to 128 GB unified memory, but the base configuration is unspecified.
Rubin's FP4 headline outruns its memory table
The Barrack AI breakdown lists 288 GB of HBM4 per Rubin GPU, 22 TB/s bandwidth, and 50 PFLOPS of NVFP4 inference.
ASUS RX 9070 EVO price falls to $629
The ASUS Prime Radeon RX 9070 EVO 16 GB OC is listed at $629, down from nearly $832, with a 2610 MHz boost clock.
The 12VHPWR was never in the thermal test
A pickup PCB soldered to the 12VHPWR header routes current through two 8-pin PCIe connectors, and at 550 W for 48 hours the wires held below 40 °C.
Apex Compute Vulkan driver enters Khronos registry
Apex Compute's Mesa-based Vulkan driver now carries vendor ID 0x10009 and driver ID 32 in the Khronos Vulkan-Docs registry.
RDNA 4's FP8 units now run NVIDIA's DLSS 4.5 kernels
Countervolts' d4r 0.1.2 ships native FP8 DLSS 4.5 kernels for gfx1201, but the path has only been verified through emulation, not on a physical RX 9070 XT.
Qualcomm's XDC2026 packet leaves Adreno compute unmeasured
The XDC2026 Qualcomm Update PDF sits on the freedesktop.org event page for the Toronto session and carries no benchmark, wattage, or frame-rate figure in the dossier.
Gigabyte AORUS RTX 5090 water block cracks at day 21
A GIGABYTE AORUS RTX 5090 water block cracked after three weeks of operation, with no root cause, crack geometry, or thermal data published.
Jay becomes the default Intel shader compiler in Mesa 26.3
Mesa 26.3 enables Intel's Jay shader compiler by default for Xe2 and Xe3 hardware, cutting Fossil compile times 55 percent over BRW.
RTX 5070 Ti GDDR7 hits 39 Gbps, one below the controller ceiling
A GeForce RTX 5070 Ti was overclocked from 28 to 39 Gbps on GDDR7, sitting one Gbps below the 40 Gbps HYDRA controller ceiling.
Qualcomm's Mahua GPU Patches Are A Few Dozen Lines
Qualcomm posted a handful of kernel patches enabling the Adreno X2-85 GPU in the lower-tier Snapdragon X2 Mahua SoC, which carries fewer slices and less internal memory than the Glymur variant.
GUNNIR dual Arc Pro B70 workstation lists 64GB VRAM
GUNNIR's VideoCardz filing shows a dual Arc Pro B70 workstation with 64GB of VRAM and liquid cooling, but no interconnect or per-board memory split.
MSI's RTX 5090 gaming trio available for $4299 at walmart
Walmart offers the MSI Gaming Trio RTX 5090 for $4299 during GeForce Week.
New RTX 5070 Autumn Limited Edition GPU Doubles as an Air Freshener
AX Gaming's white and purple RTX 5070 Autumn Limited Edition card features built-in e-sports aromatherapy, an anime character, and floral graphics.
PlayStation 3 Emulation Devs Work Around an Nvidia Bug for Up to 37% Faster Performance
Open-source PlayStation 3 emulation developers worked around an Nvidia bug to get up to 37% faster performance, and reached out to Nvidia to report the uncovered bug.
Nvidia's RTX 60 series may not ship until 2028, leaker claims
Leaker Kopite7kimi claims Nvidia's RTX 60 series may not launch until 2028, stretching the consumer GPU refresh cycle from two years to three.
The 2028 Launch Rumor for Nvidia RTX 60 Rubin GPUs Makes Sense
Nvidia is reportedly going to launch its RTX 60 GPUs codenamed Rubin in 2028, and the launch timeline makes sense given the current memory and price trajectory.
AMD matrix cores lack IEEE 754 conformance
The arXiv abstract says MATLAB models matched AMD matrix hardware bit-level on 10 million random input vectors across CDNA 1, 2, and 3.
Building a GPU Driver From Scratch in One Month for the M4 Mac Mini
Cody Ho and Niklas Sheth built a fully OpenGL ES 3.0 compliant GPU driver for the M4 Mac Mini and MacBook Neo in about a month, reverse engineering the AGX firmware ABI.
Nvidia's hidden RISC-V cores have been running your graphics driver since 2018
Nvidia's GPUs contain 10 to 40 RISC-V management cores per chip, and the GPU System Processor has been executing driver-side work since 2018.
2.1 PFlop/s GEMM on B200, and what the 98% hides
CuTile Rust reaches 2.1 PFlop/s on the B200, 98% of cuBLAS, but the ownership model constrains which kernels can hit that number.
Qualcomm unveils adreno X2 GPU with enhanced architecture
Qualcomm's Adreno X2 GPU, part of the Snapdragon X2 Elite, doubles the theoretical compute throughput of its predecessor, the Adreno X1.
The PC Gaming Ray Tracing Obsession Began With the First RTX 20 Cards in 2018
The GeForce RTX 2080 and 2080 Ti led the charge on this day in 2018, but games were thin on the ground, and the ray tracing obsession began with those first cards.
XMX matrix units run the DLSS 5 NR pass at 30 fps on Arc 140V
A Vulkan layer on Linux runs the DLSS 5 Neural Rendering pass through Intel XMX matrix units at 30 fps in Tekken 7 at 800×450 on an Arc 140V iGPU.