Nvidia Geforce RTX 4080 becomes available at $1,199
Roundup: Reviews show a fast but expensive and bulky card
Nvidia has officially lifted the review and sale embargo on the Geforce RTX 4080 graphics card, which should now be available for $1,199. Reviews have been published, showing a pretty fast graphics card, which is plagued by similar issues as the RTX 4090.
Nvidia finally comments on 16-pin adapter meltdowns
In a "waiting for Godot" sort of way
After a couple of weeks of ignoring stories about 16-pin adapter meltdowns on the GeForce RTX 4090 Nvidia’s PR team has finally answered one of the reporters who asked them what was going on.
Nvidia's Shield gets big update
New power controls and bug fixes
Nvidia Shield TV received another Android TV update which bought new power controls and bug fixes to the company's streaming telly product.
Nvidia's flaming RTX 4090 GPU might be a wire problem
The GPU is ok
The GPU maker named after a Roman pizza with potatoes and truffles, might not be responsible for its very expensive Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 GPUs catching fire after all.
AMD confirms Radeon RX 7000 series will not use the 12VHPWR connector
Nvidia investigating the issue
After the initial drama about Nvidia's implementation of the 12VHPWR connector on the Geforce RTX 4090, AMD has officially confirmed that its upcoming Radeon RX 7000 series will not use the same connector.
Nvidia chips power socket and cable catching fire
Pizza which is too hot and spicy
The GPU maker named after a Roman pizza, with potatos and sausages, apparently has a problem with the 600W power socket and cable on its RTX graphics cards.
Nvidia’s rebadging causes confusion amongst speculators
Unclear what is being rebadged
The GPU maker named after a Roman pizza with sausages, truffles and potatoes (pictured) is creating some confusion amongst gamers about the branding of its latest and greatest cards.
Nvidia’s RTX 4090 good for cracking passwords
Hashcat positively purrs
Security researcher, Sam Croley claims that Nvidia’s RTX 4090 graphics card is rather good at cracking passwords.
Nvidia decides to cancel the RTX 4080 12GB
Only the RTX 4080 16GB launches on November 16th
Nvidia has decided to cancel the RTX 4080 12GB and possibly relaunch it under a different name at a later date. This is not a big surprise considering the RTX 4080 12GB raised a lot of eyebrows back when it was announced.
Nvidia Geforce 522.25 WHQL driver brings impressive performance improvements
Geforce RTX 4090 and DLSS3 support
Nvidia has released the Geforce 522.25 WHQL Game Ready driver which brings official support for Geforce RTX 4090 graphics card, DLSS3 support, as well as support for CUDA 11.8. The biggest surprise is the rather impressive DirectX 12 performance improvements.