Nvidia brings back the Verified Priority Access program
Published in Graphics


Might be the only way to snag RTX 5080 and RTX 5090 Founders Edition cards

Nvidia has decided to bring back its Verified Priority Access (VPA) program, which allows verified users to purchase the GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition and GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition directly from the Nvidia Marketplace at MSRP.

Nvidia quietly kills off 32-bit PhysX on RTX 50 Series
Published in Graphics


End of an error

Nvidia has officially retired 32-bit PhysX support on its latest RTX 50 series GPUs, marking the end of an era for the once heavily marketed physics simulation technology.

Intel has a gamble on gaming
Published in News
Tuesday, 18 February 2025 11:57

Intel has a gamble on gaming


Making handhelds a priority

The troubled Chipzilla is making moves to muscle in on the booming handheld gaming market and take on AMD.

US IRS to buy Nvidia SuperPod AI supercomputer
Published in News


Advanced Machine Learning

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is preparing to purchase a state-of-the-art Nvidia SuperPod AI supercomputer to bolster its machine learning capabilities, with applications ranging from fraud detection to taxpayer behavior analysis.

Nvidia officially confirms RTX 5070 Ti launch for February 20
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Moves the RTX 5070 (non-Ti) launch to March 5

Nvidia has officially confirmed that the upcoming Geforce RTX 5070 Ti will be launching on February 20th, while the Geforce RTX 5070 is pushed back to March 5th.

Arm launches its own chip
Published in PC Hardware
Friday, 14 February 2025 11:21

Arm launches its own chip


Meta signs on as an early customer

Arm will unveil its first in-house chip later this year, marking a significant shift in its business model and potentially reshaping the semiconductor industry's competitive landscape.

Nvidia confirms serious security vulnerability
Published in News


Container toolkit for Linux

A newly discovered vulnerability in Nvidia’s Container Toolkit for Linux poses a significant cybersecurity risk.

AMD schedules Radeon RX 9000 series event for February 28th
Published in Graphics


Availability in early March

AMD has now officially confirmed its Radeon RX 9000 series event for February 28th, as well as confirming that the new graphics cards will be available in early March.

AMD developing a 32GB VRAM based RDNA 4 GPU
Published in Graphics
Wednesday, 12 February 2025 12:01

AMD developing a 32GB VRAM based RDNA 4 GPU


Up to 32GB VRAM

The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell on earth yarn saying that AMD is rumoured to develop a high-end RDNA 4 graphics processing unit (GPU) featuring up to 32GB of VRAM.

CPU performance declines
Published in News
Wednesday, 12 February 2025 10:22

CPU performance declines


First time since 2004

For the first time since 2004, global benchmarking data from PassMark has shown a decline in average CPU performance, with laptop processors experiencing a 3.4 per cent drop year-on-year.