RTX 4090 sent for repair is a sophisticated fake with laser-etched VRAM and core, ‘This is the best scam I’ve ever seen’ — Scammers pulled a factory-level job to sell a dud to unsuspecting customer

Northwest Repair was sent an Asus ROG Strix 4090 that had a dead core and memory chips with fake markings to make it look like the real thing. Unfortunately, there’s no way of telling what these counterfeit parts actually …

Intel has reportedly cancelled discrete gaming GPUs for the upcoming Xe3P Arc “Celestial” family — gaming GPU remains uncertain even for the next-gen Xe4 “Druid” lineup that lands in 2027

New leaks claim that Intel’s upcoming Xe3P graphics architecture won’t feature any discrete gaming GPUs, and even the next-gen Xe4 lineup isn’t confirmed to. Intel is instead prioritizing the datacenter and workstation seg…

Enthusiast fixes 30-year issue with S3 graphics card — hacking the VBIOS fixes black levels by scalpelling out the Virge DX’s ‘pedestal bit’

A retro hardware enthusiast has demonstrated a fix that eliminates the washed-out appearance people witness when using 1990s graphics cards from S3.
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GPU Renters Are Playing a Silicon Lottery
GPU Renters Are Playing a Silicon Lottery

Think one GPU is very much like another? Think again. It turns out that there’s surprising variability in the performance delivered by chips of the same model. That can make getting your money’s worth by renting time on a GPU from a cloud provider a r…

AI galaxy hunters are adding to the global GPU crunch

Astronomers are turning to GPUs to find needles in the galactic haystack.

Nvidia RTX 3060 comeback in 2026 could alleviate soaring GPU prices and memory shortages — rumored RTX 5050 9GB abruptly shelved amid speculation

If relaunched at the right price, the RTX 3060 could re-enter the market as a viable option in a segment facing increasing cost pressures.
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‘CopprLink’ destroys every eGPU standard in new test, achieves near-native-level performance with an RTX 5090 — setup requires $2,300 worth of additional hardware

An RTX 5090 plugged into this eGPU using the CopprLink standard was able to get essentially the same level of performance as the GPU directly plugged into the motherboard. The setup requires a $1,300 enclosure and a $1,000…

Benchmarking Nvidia’s RTX Neural Texture Compression tech that can reduce VRAM usage by over 80%

We put RTX Neural Texture Compression to the test with multiple GPUs and on a laptop.