Nvidia GPU prices spike in Japan; prices up to 41% higher than Amazon US

A Japanese retailer has increased the prices of RTX 50-series GPUs between 12.71% and 41.10%, with the mainstream models bearing the brunt of the price increases.

Chinese AI companies buy 1 million Nvidia GPUs in a single year, report claims
Chinese AI companies buy 1 million Nvidia GPUs in a single year, report claims

A new report has revealed China may have bought up 1 million Nvidia GPUs for AI this year.

Nvidia doubles DLSS 5 performance, reduces 4K VRAM usage by 20% with latest model
Nvidia doubles DLSS 5 performance, reduces 4K VRAM usage by 20% with latest model

Nvidia has announced that DLSS 5 is now two times faster while using less VRAM.

Meet the modders porting ringfenced DLSS features to older GPUs
Meet the modders porting ringfenced DLSS features to older GPUs

DLSS Multi-Frame Generation and DLSS 5 Neural Rendering can now run on hardware never intended for it, at least according to Nvidia. Now, two of the modders foundational to the release of these community advancements speak out.

Coder creates NvidiaWatch tracker site that monitors hundreds of GPU driver bugs
Coder creates NvidiaWatch tracker site that monitors hundreds of GPU driver bugs

independent-arg built this labor of love for the Nvidia community.

Buyer pays $350 for broken RTX 4090 project only to find realistic fake GPU die and swapped memory
Buyer pays $350 for broken RTX 4090 project only to find realistic fake GPU die and swapped memory

A customer paid approximately $350 for what appeared to be a repairable RTX 4090, only to receive a fake GPU with components that were painstakingly designed to resemble the real thing.

Reddit user pays $35 for a crypto mining rig left in a garage and gets 54GB of VRAM at 65 cents per GB
Reddit user pays $35 for a crypto mining rig left in a garage and gets 54GB of VRAM at 65 cents per GB

A Reddit user bought a nine-GPU Nvidia P106-100 mining rig with 54GB of VRAM for $35 and ran Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on it locally.

Modder discovers that putting a GPU in the ‘wrong place’ can deliver a 19 degree cooler hotspot
Modder discovers that putting a GPU in the ‘wrong place’ can deliver a 19 degree cooler hotspot

In PC DIY it might still be worth challenging convention, as TrashBench shows with his GPU hotspot getting up to 19C cooler.

Nvidia reportedly halts GeForce RTX 5090 production in favor of AI data center and professional GPUs

Nvidia reportedly discontinues GeForce RTX 5090-series products leaving GB202 for data center and professional graphics boards. GeForce RTX 5080 24 GB rumored to become de-facto flagship from the green camp for a while.