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AMD officially announces price and release date for Ryzen 9 9900X3D and 9950X3D processors
CPU AMD has announced the price and release date for its two highest-end 3D chips.
Budget gamers rejoice as RTX 5050 and RTX 5060 are rumored to launch in April
GPU A new rumor circulating online suggests the RTX 5060 and RTX 5050 will launch next month
AMD might go for Nvidia’s jugular in Q2 with a faster RX 9070 ‘Extreme’ GPU that could leave the RTX 5070 Ti in the dust
If AMD has Nvidia on the ropes now, rumored RX 9070 XTX model that’s faster than the RTX 5070 Ti could be a knockout blow.
Nvidia's 572.70 Game Ready Driver promises a black screen fix - but unless you have an RTX 5070 it's probably best to avoid updating for now
Nvidia's older GPUs are suffering from black screen issues - but there is hopefully a fix.
Bad news PC gamers - it seems AMD's aggressively low price for its Radeon RX 9070 GPU will only be for a limited time
Worldwide retailers have explained that AMD's MSRP for the RX 9070 may not be honored by its partners.
Corsair tells us only one of its prebuilt PCs with an RTX 5000 GPU has suffered from chip-level fault, suggesting it’s as rare as Nvidia claimed
Corsair is guaranteeing prebuilt PCs with RTX 5000 cards aren’t affected by the hardware-level GPU fault, while backing up Nvidia’s assertion that it’s a rare glitch.
Sure, Nvidia DLSS 4 is incredibly impressive - but AMD's improved upscaling tech could be a real game-changer
Nvidia's DLSS 4 has significantly improved PC gaming for all RTX GPU users, but AMD's FSR 4 is another reason why Team Green may not run away with the lead this generation.
Last-minute AMD RX 9070 XT stock rumors are making me hopeful for a much better launch than Nvidia’s RTX 5000 GPUs – with just one snag
While the MSRP should hold fast with the first batch of GPUs sold, it could ‘jump’ after that initial (subsidized by AMD) quantity of graphics cards has been shifted.
