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Even if you managed to buy one — statistically, you couldn’t — owners have discovered Valorant and ARK Survival Evolved can crash on launch due to driver issues, with Valorant developer Riot blaming Nvidia. Some are reporting performance mode crashes with Fortnite and “unknown error” crashes with PUBG too.
Meanwhile, Overclockers has become the second UK retailer to say: some RTX 5090 buyers may not receive their cards until May. Japanese retailer PC Studio has also apologized for the injuries at its raffle ticket sale.
The sheer volume of these cracked me up, so I just had to make a little gallery for you (tap the arrows to cycle through).
Guess that’s what Nvidia gets when it goes from 40–50 percent gains each generation to more like 15 percent! Here’s our own RTX 5080 review.
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The RTX 5080 is smaller and a little faster than the RTX 4080 Super — and still $999.
The RTX 5090 fits in an Ncase M1, with a few caveats.
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The next-gen GPU battle begins with Nvidia alone at the top.
Nvidia’s upcoming RTX 5090 launch on January 30th might be met with limited stock, according to some system builders and retailers. PowerGPU is warning that the RTX 5090 will have poor availability, and others are warning that some cards might not arrive until February.
It will have to be Nvidia’s Founder’s Edition model, according to an update to Nvidia’s small form factor PC compatibility list spotted by VideoCardz.
The China-only chip comes with 2,375 AI TOPS, compared to the 3,352 on the RTX 5090 that will launch elsewhere, as pointed out by Tom’s Hardware. US export rules prevent chipmakers like Nvidia from selling high-powered chips to China.
Despite these requirements, it seems some of the company’s advanced chips have made their way into China through smuggling, according to The Information.
Nvidia’s beta all-in-one app is set to replace GeForce experience later this year, and it might fully launch with the RTX 50-series. Hardware leaker kopite7kimi says it will be released officially together with Nvidia’s next-gen GPUs. Nvidia is holding a CES 2025 keynote in January, where we’re expecting to see the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080.
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