Modder pushes rare 20GB RTX 3080 Ti past 550W with risky power shunts and liquid metal cooling — project reveals full performance potential of the unreleased GPU sample

A Reddit user, after acquiring an engineering sample of an unreleased 20GB Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, has modded it to bypass its power limits and take it to its maximum performance to make it behave “much more like the 3…

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Meta strikes up to $100B AMD chip deal as it chases ‘personal superintelligence’

Meta is buying billions of dollars in AMD AI chips in a multiyear deal tied to a 160 million-share warrant, deepening its push to diversify beyond Nvidia and expand data center capacity.

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Amateur burglar steals three GPUs worth $11,000 from computer shop in Korea — thief broke in using a drill hammer and walked out with only 3 cards

A thief in South Korea fled with two RTX 5090s and an RTX 5080 when he broke into a local computer shop. Instead of going for maximum potential gains and picking up RAM, he valued high-ticket items that would sell quickly….

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MSI RTX 5090 Lightning Z GPUs listed on eBay for almost $27,000 — limited edition graphics card demands 500% premium from resellers

Resellers are now putting up MSI RTX 5090 Lightning Zs on eBay, pricing it from $6,700 all the way to nearly $27,000.
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AI craze leaves only one Nvidia RTX 50-series GPU at MSRP — RTX 5060 Ti 8GB makes the final stand, as even the RTX 5050 falls

The MSI GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8G Ventus 2X OC Plus and the Gigabyte GeForce RTX 5060 Ti WindForce 8G are the only Blackwell-based graphics cards still at their MSRPs.
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The great Bench GPU retest begins — how we’re testing for our GPU Hierarchy in 2026, and why upscaling and framegen are still out

Here’s how we’re updating our GPU Hierarchy and Bench database for 2026, with a breakdown of our setup, the current state of play, and our test suite, which includes many new games—but no upscaling or framegen.
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Nearly half of PC gamers prefer DLSS 4.5 over AMD’s FSR and even native rendering — Nvidia scores clean sweep in blind test of six titles

In a new blind test featuring six different games, users heavily preferred the image quality of DLSS 4.5 and crowned it as the best against FSR 4 and native rendering. Nvidia walked away with 48.2% of all votes, with nativ…

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$1,000 bought an RTX 5080 in November 2025, now it only buys an RTX 5070 Ti — report shows 15% average global price hike across Nvidia, AMD & Intel GPUs

Nvidia’s RTX 5090 is the most overpriced GPU in the world, selling at 65% above its MSRP while AMD’s RX 9070 XT saw the smallest price hike of just 7% worldwide. India has been hit the worse with extreme price surges, whil…

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Corsair AI Workstation 300 review: Strix Halo sets sail in a compact and classy (but pricey) package

Corsair’s AI Workstation 300 wraps up AMD’s popular Strix Halo platform in a compact and classy chassis that delivers all of that chip’s performance potential, along with plenty of connectivity options for general PC use. …

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$5,000 RTX 5090 Lightning Z gets killed in extreme overclocking attempt, thermal shock cracks the GPU core — MSI’s 2,500-Watt XOC BIOS pushed too high a voltage to the core

In a sudden moment of thermal shock, a $5,000 RTX 5090 ended up cracking under pressure when too much voltage was pushed to the core at once. The dead card aided in achieving a world record in Geekbench 5 GPU Compute befor…

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