Nvidia pulls the plug on Maxwell, Pascal and Volta GPU driver support
Published in Graphics


580 series will be the swan song for aging cards 

Nvidia is set to drop the curtain on driver support for its Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPUs, with the upcoming 580 driver series marking the final stop on the update train.

AMD slashes VRAM use with bonkers tree-rendering trick
Published in Graphics


Work graphs cut memory needs from 34.8 GiB to 51 KiB

Rendering trees in 3D has always been a bit of a memory hog, but AMD seems to have chopped down the problem with a new technique called “work graphs”.

Nvidia's GeForce RTX 5050 laptop GPU launches
Published in News


Debuts in China with GDDR7 and 10 per cent uplift over RTX 4050

Nvidia has kicked off its RTX 50 series laptop lineup with the official release of the GeForce RTX 5050 mobile GPU, bringing incremental improvements over the previous generation without shaking things up too much.

Canonical and Intel scrap GPU mitigations
Published in Graphics


Ubuntu 25.10 to ditch Intel graphics security trade-offs for OpenCL and Level Zero

Troubled Chipzilla's long-suffering GPU compute stack is getting a breather, as it and Ubuntu’s Canonical have decided to chuck out security mitigations that were kneecapping performance by up to 20 per cent.

PCIe 7.0 spec screams ahead of reality
Published in News
Friday, 13 June 2025 09:02

PCIe 7.0 spec screams ahead of reality


Blistering speeds for kit you won’t own this decade

PCIe connectivity is moving ahead at full tilt, with a new spec already outlined for PCIe 7.0. Trouble is, we’re still mostly faffing about with PCIe 5.0, and PCIe 6.0 is barely out of the gate.

EVGA boards choke on RTX 50 GPUs
Published in Graphics
Wednesday, 11 June 2025 09:31

EVGA boards choke on RTX 50 GPUs


Users resort to tape and prayer

Users of EVGA motherboards are discovering that their once-trusted gear is now allergic to Nvidia’s latest RTX 50 series graphics cards.

GPU market stumbles as Discrete GPU penetration flattens
Published in Graphics


Jon Peddie blames Trump trade chaos for slowdown

Global PC graphics market took a knock in the first quarter of 2025, with GPU shipments sliding to 68.8 million units, down 12 per cent from the previous quarter, according to the latest data from Jon Peddie Research.

TSMC says AI chip war doesn’t matter
Published in AI
Wednesday, 04 June 2025 10:08

TSMC says AI chip war doesn’t matter


All roads lead to TSMC

The head of TSMC reckons it doesn’t really matter whether GPUs or ASICs win the AI chip race. Either way, the orders are heading back to his outfit.

Asus slaps new GPUs into old laptops and calls it a day
Published in PC Hardware


Computex brings keyboard vents, ancient chips and a lonely dock

Asus turned up to Computex with a pile of gaming laptops barely changed from last year, now dressed up with Nvidia’s RTX 5060 and not much else to show for it.

Chipzilla suffers security fails across CPUs, GPUs, and gaming gear
Published in PC Hardware


Intel’s Core Ultra, Arc graphics, and gaming software infected with fresh bugs

Troubled Chipzilla just added another chapter to its ever-growing “How Not to Secure Your Silicon” anthology. This time it’s not just the CPUs taking the heat, its Arc GPUs and even its gaming software have joined the bug bonanza.