MSI RTX 5090 user suffers from a melted connector twice
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16-pin power plug problems continue to plague Nvidia’s flagship GPUs

Another MSI GeForce RTX 5090 owner has reported the familiar smell of burning plastic, after the card’s 16-pin power connector melted not once but twice in just a few weeks.

Intel's Arc battlemage stops tripping over its own drivers
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B580 gets serious fixes for CPU overhead mess

Chipzilla’s Arc Battlemage GPUs are slowly crawling out of the hole, with new drivers finally giving them a fighting chance in modern games.

AMD teases DGF tricks for next-gen UDNA GPUs
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Hints at hardware-level boost for ray tracing and animation

AMD has shown off how its Dense Geometry Format (DGF) could reshape GPU performance in animation and ray tracing, with hints that future UDNA cards might get fixed-function hardware to handle the heavy lifting.

Nvidia releases its Battlefield 6 Geforce Game Ready driver
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Nvidia DLSS 4 support coming to several new games

Nvidia has released its new GeForce 581.42 WHQL Game Ready driver, adding game optimizations for Battlefield 6 and FBC: Firebreak games, as well as fixing several bugs. Nvidia also announced several new games that will be getting DLSS support.

ASUS announces Turbo Radeon AI PRO R9700 32GB graphics card
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AMD's graphics card for professional AI at the edge

ASUS has now officially announced the Turbo Radeon AI PRO R9700 graphics, a 32GB graphics card for AI developers and professionals. Announced back in July, the Radeon AI PRO R9700 is based on Navi 48 GPU, with 64 Compute Units and 128 AI Accelerators, and 32GB of GDDR6 memory.