Nvidia is one of the world’s biggest computer chip companies, best known for its line of graphics processing units or GPUs. Although the firm had its start in the world of consumer gaming, in recent years it’s grown into a true tech titan with diverse investments in self-driving cars, cloud computing, supercomputing, and artificial intelligence. The parallel processing power of Nvidia’s GPUs has proven to be particularly good at machine learning tasks, and its chips are in high demand not only from AI researchers but any business with an interest in artificial intelligence. From 2015 onwards, Nvidia’s share price grew sharply, allowing the company to make some key acquisitions, including UK chip designer ARM, which it announced it would purchase in September 2020 for $40 billion. Nvidia was founded in 1993 by Jensen Huang, who is currently the firm’s CEO. Known for his leather jackets and upbeat corporate presentations, Huang is a familiar figure to anyone interested in tech.
It looks like Nvidia may have yet another issue with its flagship RTX 5090 card — a noted leaker claims it shipped out partially defective chips with slightly worse performance. Maybe check your card with GPU-Z and see if it’s showing the proper number of 176 ROPs?
It’s not every card, but reports are coming in of Zotac, MSI, Gigabyte, Manli, and even an Nvidia Founders Edition card with missing ROPs.
The latest Nvidia drivers add support for DLSS 4-enabled Multi Frame Generation in Marvel Rivals, allowing a 5090 to deliver up to 630 “fake” frames per second in 1080p.
Even if you have older hardware than the likely-hard-to-find 5070 Ti, the release notes (pdf) for 572.47 say it also addresses a bug I’d experienced recently, where it could crash your system instead of waking up the monitor from an extended sleep.
0The RTX 5070 Ti delivers almost identical performance to the RTX 4080 with slightly less power draw.
Nvidia announced in a post on X that laptops running RTX 50-series GPUs will go up for preorder on February 25th. It’s likely that laptop manufacturers will announce shipping dates and further details beyond this small tease soon.
I covered the RTX 5090 melting power connector situation yesterday, and I was surprised at the amount of people quick to blame “user error” for someone using a third-party cable. YouTuber der8auer has now examined one of the burnt cables, and he’s found that this isn’t user error and could be related to a current distribution problem instead. Nvidia still hasn’t commented on the situation.
When I reviewed the RTX 5090 I noticed Valorant kept crashing, and now Nvidia has released a driver to fix that very problem. The new 572.24 driver fixes Valorant crashes on the RTX 5080 or RTX 5090, and also addresses issues where Final Fantasy XVI would freeze once you exit it. You can grab the driver from Nvidia’s support website.
Nvidia Broadcast is a free app that just rolled out an update with a few AI features. I tried out the features “Studio Voice,” “Eye Contact,” “Noise Removal,” and “Virtual Key Light” to see just how much they improve my webcam quality. My GPU didn’t have too much trouble, but Nvidia still doesn’t recommend gaming while using these.
Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia, didn’t join other AI-heavy tech execs at the presidential inauguration and skipped the announcement of the Stargate Project, but Reuters reported he was scheduled to meet with Trump at the White House on Friday.
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The RTX 5080 is smaller and a little faster than the RTX 4080 Super — and still $999.
As Chinese AI startup DeepSeek draws attention for open-source AI models that it says are cheaper than the competition while providing similar or better performance, AI chip king Nvidia’s stock price dropped today.
CNBC said that after closing at $118.58, down 17 percent, this was “the biggest drop ever for a U.S. company.”
In a statement to Bloomberg, an Nvidia spokesperson said DeepSeek is an “excellent AI advancement” and shows how a company can create new AI models using the test-time scaling method, while “leveraging widely-available models and compute that is fully export control compliant.”
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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.
Nvidia says more than 80 percent of RTX GPU owners activate its DLSS upscaling. That includes owners of RTX 20-series GPUs on up to RTX 40-series cards. Nvidia originally launched DLSS with its RTX 20-series GPUs in 2018, and now it’s about to launch DLSS 4 with the RTX 50-series later this month. DLSS 4 is a big upgrade with neural rendering capabilities and Multi Frame Generation.
The AI boom means most of these highly sought-after parts wind up in server farms, so it’s rare to see one ourselves — but AMD and Nvidia showed off a few at CES 2025. Here’s AMD’s MI325X, and then what appears to be Nvidia’s GB200 NVL72, with potentially lots of its new Blackwell AI chips inside.
