Gelsinger claims Nvidia’s AI GPUs are overpriced
Published in News


Jensen just got lucky on AI

It appears that former troubled Chipzilla CEO Pat Gelsinger is still upset about Nvidia’s AI dominance, taking a swipe at Jensen Huang’s pricing strategy and implying that Nvidia’s meteoric rise in AI was more a matter of luck than strategy.

NVIDIA announces new RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPU series for workstations
Published in Graphics


Up to 96GB of GDDR6 ECC memory

At GTC 2025, NVIDIA has unveiled its new RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPU series for workstations, including a full lineup of desktop and laptop GPUs, as well as a data center-oriented RTX PRO 6000 Server Edition one.

Bolt Graphics brings RISC-V to the GPU market
Published in Graphics


Hail Zeus

Bolt Graphics, a startup out of Sunnyvale, California, has announced its Zeus GPU platform, promising to thrash Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 5090 in path tracing and FP64 compute workloads.

Altman's giant GPT-4.5 hits a wall
Published in AI
Friday, 28 February 2025 10:01

Altman's giant GPT-4.5 hits a wall


Can’t get enough GPUs

OpenAI's CEO, Sam Altman, has unveiled the company's latest brainchild: GPT-4.5, but don’t expect to see it anytime soon.

AMD’s FSR 4 exclusivity concerns older GPU owners
Published in Graphics


They will not get the latest performance enhancements

AMD has confirmed that its upcoming FidelityFX Super Resolution 4 (FSR 4) upscaling technology will be exclusive to RDNA 4 GPUs, potentially leaving owners of older graphics cards without access to the latest performance enhancements.

Nvidia starts killing off Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPUs
Published in Graphics


GeForce driver support future uncertain

Tom’s Hardware has noticed that Nvidia's release notes for CUDA 12.8 show Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPUs are set to transition to the legacy driver branch and will self-identify as “dead as a dodo.”

GPU-as-a-service market surges
Published in AI
Tuesday, 21 January 2025 08:26

GPU-as-a-service market surges


Sorry, not for gamers

The growing demand for advanced AI has led to a massive surge in computing power needs, prompting the rise of GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) businesses.

AMD Radeon RX 9070 series appears in retail
Published in Graphics
Wednesday, 15 January 2025 22:04

AMD Radeon RX 9070 series appears in retail


Ahead of rumored January launch

Danish retailer Foniks and an Israeli shop have begun listing AMD's upcoming Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT graphics cards as available for immediate shipping.

NVIDIA announces new RTX 50 series GPUs
Published in Graphics
Tuesday, 07 January 2025 13:19

NVIDIA announces new RTX 50 series GPUs


Blackwell comes to GeForce with RTX 5090, RTX 5080, RTX 5070 Ti, and RTX 5070

During its CES 2025 keynote, NVIDIA CEO, Jensen Huang, announced the new generation of graphics cards for desktops, the GeForce RTX 50 series. Available in January, NVIDIA will be launching four SKUs, ranging from $549 to $1,999, including the GeForce RTX 5070, RTX 5070 Ti, RTX 5080, and the GeForce RTX 5090.

New AMD GPUs a no show at CES
Published in Graphics
Tuesday, 07 January 2025 00:40

New AMD GPUs a no show at CES


Everyone surprised

Observers at AMD’s CES 2025 keynote were surprised that Team Red had nothing to say about its coming RX 9000 series.