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Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti and RTX 5050 detailed in new leak

Nvidia appears to be bolstering its entry-level graphics card offerings, with an increasing number of leaks suggesting we'll get an RTX 5050. This budget-friendly card is reported to launch in the coming weeks, positioning itself as a direct competitor to Intel's Arc B580. Leaker kopite7kimi has been relatively quiet since …

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Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell leaks via retail listing

Nvidia's professional workstation graphics card lineup is probably getting an update like the gaming series did with the RTX 50 GPUs. Nvidia hasn't confirmed it yet, but the supposed new flagship card, RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell, has recently been spotted online. The listing spotted on Leadtek's website by Mark Brown …

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Nvidia RTX 50 Laptop GPU series also affected by missing ROPs issue

Nvidia's RTX 50 series ROP issue continues. Laptop manufacturers are reportedly facing the added burden of ensuring their upcoming RTX 50-powered laptops are free from the same defect. As such, these companies are implementing additional testing measures to avoid shipping defective GPUs to customers. This extra scrutiny comes in response …

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Bought an RTX 5090? – be aware of etailer ‘price hiking stock scams’

Regular readers of Kitguru will have seen news we published yesterday regarding dutch retailer Your Game Specialist. Today we wanted to follow up on this story after we received multiple emails from unhappy customers of the same etailer in overnight. Right now, we are working our way through the emails showing screenshots and communications with the etailer and while we need to be careful what we publish from a legal standpoint I felt it was worth addressing some potential concerns I have based on what has happened so far.

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Dutch Retailer talks to Kitguru and retracts ‘RTX 5090 recall’ claim

Earlier today, a KitGuru reader reached out to us to let us know about a rather bold claim from a retailer based in the Netherlands. Our reader Ben, who spent €3399 on an MSI RTX 5090 Suprim more than a month ago, was informed by the store that they would not receive their graphics card anytime soon due to a 'product recall'. Specifically, the claim was made that Nvidia had recalled a number of RTX 5090 graphics cards due to a potential fire hazard.

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Goodbye Nvidia, Hello AMD – Leo buys PowerColor RX 9070 XT Red Devil Limited Edition

Nvidia and AMD have launched their new graphics cards and we are all set for gaming in 2025, however there have been some shocks along the way. Naturally we expected Nvidia would soak us for a fortune but who would have predicted that Nvidia RTX 50-series would turn out to be an utter disaster? Or that AMD RX 9070 XT looks good? Wow!

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Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 launches at £539

Nvidia continues its rollout of RTX 50 series graphics cards today with the RTX 5070. While this card is decidedly an unambitious product, it can still serve a purpose on the market, particularly for those with an older RTX 20 series GPU, or a lower tier RTX 30 series GPU. We've rounded up details on UK pricing and availability, with a focus on GPUs targeting Nvidia's £539 MRSP price point. 

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Defective Nvidia RTX 5080 cards are up to 10% slower due to missing ROPs

Nvidia's handling of the recent RTX 50 series ROP issue hasn't been the best. After issuing a relatively low-key disclosure about a production error affecting a small number of GPUs, the company has seemingly left it up to consumers to identify and resolve the problem. While Nvidia claims the performance impact is limited to around 4%, independent testing has revealed a more significant performance deficit in specific scenarios.

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Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 will reportedly feature up to 18 CPU cores

Qualcomm is making a bold move in the PC processor market with its upcoming high-end CPU for Windows PCs. Rumoured to boast a significant increase in core count compared to its flagship predecessor, the next generation flagship processor is expected to feature 18 CPU cores. Import-export documents to which Winfuture …

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