RTX 5060 Ti survives car crash after being bent in half — short PCB saves the day, single memory chip resolder restore full performance
RTX 5060 Ti survives car crash after being bent in half — short PCB saves the day, single memory chip resolder restore full performance

What happens when a graphics card gets in a car crash? If you’re lucky, the damage is limited to just cosmetic scars that can go away over time with no serious damage under-the-hood.

AMD’s new Radeon RX 9050 is roughly 30% slower than the RTX 5050 in games, early testing shows — the cheapest 8GB RDNA 4 GPU comfortably handles 1080p gaming but doesn’t impress

The RX 9050 is slower than the RTX 5050 in every conceivable way except when the latter is constrained in some way. It performs worse in synthetic benchmarks and games but has more efficient power consumption. At 4K, it’s about 42% slower, and at 1080p it’s about 31% slower on average across various titles.

Nvidia’s fastest graphics cards get US price increase at Best Buy, Amazon — Astral RTX 5080 now costs more than 5090’s MSRP, flagship card now commands more than $4,300
Nvidia’s fastest graphics cards get US price increase at Best Buy, Amazon — Astral RTX 5080 now costs more than 5090’s MSRP, flagship card now commands more than $4,300

Premium Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 and RTX 5090 graphics cards are once again selling far above MSRP, with some Asus and MSI models climbing close to $5,000.

GPU repair service will upgrade the 11GB of VRAM on your RTX 2080 Ti to 22GB — mod involves physically adjusting the strap resistors on the PCB to support a new BIOS
GPU repair service will upgrade the 11GB of VRAM on your RTX 2080 Ti to 22GB — mod involves physically adjusting the strap resistors on the PCB to support a new BIOS

A GPU repair shop in the UAE is promising to upgrade the VRAM capacity of an RTX 2080 Ti from 11GB to 22GB by swapping the 1GB GDDR6 modules with 2GB chips and modifying the strap resistors to recognize the new VRAM.

ASRock officially announces Radeon RX 9050 with 8GB VRAM — RDNA 4 card offers boost clock of up to 2600MHz (updated)
ASRock officially announces Radeon RX 9050 with 8GB VRAM — RDNA 4 card offers boost clock of up to 2600MHz (updated)

ASRock has listed the long-rumored RX 9050 GPU on its website in both a 4GB and 8GB configuration, but has deleted those pages since.

MSI and Colorful raise Nvidia RTX 50-series prices in China by up to 59% across the entire lineup — change in distributer pricing suggests GPU price hikes are on the way

GPU prices seem to be on the rise once again with official distributor announcements in China hiking up the entire Blackwell lineup overnight. Compared to MSRP, we’re witnessing a staggering bump of up to 75% at the top-end.

AI enthusiast adds Nvidia Tesla V100 as loud as a lawnmower to gaming PC for $266 — 32GB of VRAM rig can run 27 billion parameter model at 32 tokens per second
AI enthusiast adds Nvidia Tesla V100 as loud as a lawnmower to gaming PC for $266 — 32GB of VRAM rig can run 27 billion parameter model at 32 tokens per second

A computing enthusiast has repurposed a very noisy and largely obsolete enterprise GPU (with lots of VRAM) for local LLM inference purposes.

AMD confirmed $5.4 billion ATI acquisition 20 years ago today — deal to ‘reinvent our industry’ paved the way for Radeon GPU innovation, APUs, and games console domination
AMD confirmed $5.4 billion ATI acquisition 20 years ago today — deal to ‘reinvent our industry’ paved the way for Radeon GPU innovation, APUs, and games console domination

On this day in 2006, AMD confirmed its acquisition of graphics chip firm ATI. AMD stumped up a cash-and-stock deal worth a total of $5.4B for the Canadian PC graphics innovators.

AMD takes the wraps off its Instinct MI455X AI accelerator — CDNA 5 and Helios rack-scale architecture combine to take the fight to Nvidia in the data center
AMD takes the wraps off its Instinct MI455X AI accelerator — CDNA 5 and Helios rack-scale architecture combine to take the fight to Nvidia in the data center

AMD showed off its MI455X accelerator at its Advancing AI 2026 event, demonstrating its strong competitive performance, large HBM memory capacity, and Helios rack-scale architecture.

Nvidia RTX 3090 and RTX 3050 team up to hit 144 FPS at 4K — Lossless Scaling turns old Ampere GPUs into a gaming powerhouse
Nvidia RTX 3090 and RTX 3050 team up to hit 144 FPS at 4K — Lossless Scaling turns old Ampere GPUs into a gaming powerhouse

A gaming enthusiast leverages Lossless Scaling to supercharge a gaming PC with a GeForce RTX 3090 and GeForce RTX 3050 to deliver up to 144 FPS at 4K.