Nvidia and Japan unveil world’s first national AI infrastructure — Noetra consortium to build a 140MW Rubin AI factory with 27,500 GPUs

Nvidia today announced that it’s working with Japan’s Noetra Corp. to build a 140-megawatt AI factory packing 27,500 Rubin GPUs and 13,750 Vera CPUs.

Palit officially announces RTX 3060 return with ‘new’ Infinity 2 OC launch — 2021 GPU with 12GB of VRAM is an AI crisis stopgap
Palit officially announces RTX 3060 return with ‘new’ Infinity 2 OC launch — 2021 GPU with 12GB of VRAM is an AI crisis stopgap

Nvidia has rebooted its five-year-old RTX 3060 graphics card, as is, for the modern AI era, bringing back the GPU officially at its original $329 price. It still features 12GB of VRAM, which serves as its main selling point during a memory crisis, but don’t let the capacity fool you.

Amazon Prime members can get this Asus RTX 5060 for just $2 above MSRP — upgrade to Blackwell gaming power for less than the cost of an RTX 3060
Amazon Prime members can get this Asus RTX 5060 for just $2 above MSRP — upgrade to Blackwell gaming power for less than the cost of an RTX 3060

Amazon is giving some Prime customers a deep discount on Asus’s Prime RTX 5060 8GB OC, bringing its price to just $2 above MSRP and beating the Prime Day deals we saw on these cards.

Upcoming MSI Afterburner update adds heatmap to V/F curve editor to show your GPU’s boosting behavior — new feature shoots for better overclocks with more data

MSI Afterburner is soon getting a new heatmap in its V/F curve editor that shows the GPU’s boosting behavior in real workloads.

AMD FSR Multi-Frame Generation with 8x mode spotted — experimental driver settings could hint at FSR’s next evolution
AMD FSR Multi-Frame Generation with 8x mode spotted — experimental driver settings could hint at FSR’s next evolution

Experimental options discovered in AMD’s latest Radeon driver suggest the company is preparing next-generation FSR technologies, but there’s no confirmation whether 8x Multi-Frame Generation mode will ever ship in its current form.

Hotspot temperature sensor on Nvidia’s Blackwell gaming GPUs is still accessible if you have access to Nvidia’s internal MODS tool — Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti caught throttling at 107°C over poor TIM application

Nvidia decided to hide the hotspot temperature on its RTX 50 series, but internal diagnostic tools, such as Nvidia’s own “MODS,” can still read it. The resulting data reveals how some GPUs can overheat and throttle easily, which could be why the sensor was kept hidden in the first place.

AMD RX 9070 GRE collapses to $499 to save 1440p gaming — RDNA 4 price slips 9% to steal a piece of Nvidia’s mid-range pie
AMD RX 9070 GRE collapses to $499 to save 1440p gaming — RDNA 4 price slips 9% to steal a piece of Nvidia’s mid-range pie

AMD’s Radeon RX 9070 GRE has received its first price cut since launching outside China, making the 1440p-focused RDNA 4 graphics card a more compelling alternative to Nvidia’s RTX 5060 Ti 16GB.

Meta’s new AI chips will begin production in September

In its bid to spend less on GPUs from providers like Nvidia, Meta is on track to start making its the latest versions of its AI-specific chips in September.

Ingenious father fixes dead RTX 3070 with a jerry-rigged capacitor from an old radio — Saves worried son $120 in repair costs, GPU ‘works better than before’ now

A Russian family has just saved the house $120 in GPU repairs after the father fixed it with a salvaged capacitor from an old radio.

Nvidia shows off GeForce Trading Cards Series 1 — collectible cards show off games, GPUs, and tech demos, and will be available for free at upcoming events

Nvidia is creating a set of collectible trading cards that will be given away for free during live events and giveaways this summer.