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The graphics cards tag covers news, buying guidance, and technical discussion about modern GPUs for Windows gaming PCs. Recent topics include Nvidia GeForce RTX 50-series pricing, availability, Founders Edition designs, factory-overclocked models, cooling, fit, and possible future refreshes. Coverage also compares AMD Radeon and Intel Arc cards across performance, power use, memory, and regional availability, including choices for 1080p and 4K gaming. Other discussions examine graphics card value against complete systems, misleading product lists, and unusual hardware repair cases. Use this archive to follow GPU launches, compare specifications and prices, and evaluate practical upgrade considerations before buying.
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    RTX 5090 Power Mod Adds Dual 8-Pin Inputs to Cut 16-Pin Connector Heat

    A Reddit user says he has stopped his RTX 5090's power connector from overheating. His fix is a custom board that adds two extra 8-pin PCIe inputs to the card. Reddit user u/DallasGrave reports that the modified card ran at 550W for 48 hours and that the wires never went above 40°C. Nobody...
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    Gigabyte AORUS RTX 5080 INFINITY Review: PCMag Editors’ Choice, 4K Performance and PC Fit Check

    Gigabyte’s AORUS GeForce RTX 5080 INFINITY 16G has earned an enthusiastic verdict from PCMag: a 4.5-out-of-5 rating, an Editors’ Choice award, and the distinction of being the fastest RTX 5080 the publication says it has tested. That is a strong endorsement—but the practical question for PC...
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    Chiplet GPUs vs DLSS: Why Gaming Performance Still Needs More Hardware

    For a few years, a lot of PC gamers have treated DLSS as the answer to the GPU slowdown. If each new generation brings only a modest jump in raw rendering power, AI upscaling and frame generation can make up the difference. In a new opinion piece, How-To Geek's Sydney Butler says he has changed...
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    Intel Arc B580 and B570 for Windows Gaming: Setup Requirements and Uncertain GPU Future

    Ask a room full of PC builders who makes graphics cards and you'll hear two names, then a pause. BGR's new explainer tries to fill that pause. Its conclusion is fairly bleak: Nvidia holds, in BGR's words, "about 95% share in today's GPU market," AMD's Radeon is a distant second, and everyone...
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    Ex-EVGA Insider Says NVIDIA MSRP Loss Leaders Helped Protect GPU Supply

    If you ever went looking for a graphics card at its advertised starting price and found only a sold-out listing next to a much more expensive custom model, a former EVGA insider has a business explanation for it. Brendon Ray Hedrick worked at EVGA from February 2016 to December 2019. He says...
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    Radeon RX 6700 XT: Closest PC Match to Xbox Series X GPU

    According to a SlashGear hardware explainer published September 24, 2026, the AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT is the desktop graphics card that comes closest to the Xbox Series X GPU. That makes it a useful reference point for PC gamers who want console-class graphics on Windows. It's a rough match...
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    RTX 5080 Failure Report Follows Unofficial GTA V DLSS 5

    An MSI GeForce RTX 5080 owner says his month-old graphics card stopped working after he enabled an unofficial DLSS 5 injection in Grand Theft Auto V Legacy, and that a replacement has since worked normally without the modification. The account, covered by VideoCardz and Wccftech, describes a...
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    PCIe 3.0 x16 Keeps RTX 5090 Within 4% of Gen 5

    PCIe 3.0 is usually not the reason to replace an otherwise working gaming PC after installing a current graphics card. Testing by Gamers Nexus found that an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 lost only about 1% to 4% in its game suite when moved from PCIe 5.0 x16 to PCIe 3.0 x16 — a strikingly small result...
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    Radeon RX 9050 4GB Trails 8GB Model by 37% in Games

    AMD’s Radeon RX 9050 4GB is proving to be a much more compromised product than its name suggests. Hardware Unboxed’s first proper test found the OEM-only card falling below a consistent 60 fps at 1080p low in demanding new games including Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced and Crimson Desert...
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    PALIT RTX 5060 Ti RiTONA OC Has 8GB, No Price Yet

    PALIT has introduced the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8GB RiTONA OC, a white, dual-fan variant built around the same 8GB Blackwell GPU that has been on sale since April 2025. The practical news for PC builders is straightforward: this is a compact 233.9mm card with a mild factory overclock, not a new...
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    Assess Used High-VRAM GPUs in a Distorted Market

    Used high-VRAM graphics cards are easier to notice when new-GPU retail prices are abnormal, but that does not make any older card an automatic bargain. The right question for a Windows PC buyer is conditional: does a specific, fully working used card solve a real memory, performance, or feature...
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    GTX 1060 3GB at 10: Never Just Half a GTX 1060

    The GeForce GTX 1060 3GB deserves to be remembered as more than a cheaper GTX 1060 with half as much video memory. NVIDIA positioned it as a $199 alternative in August 2016, just a month after the original 6GB model arrived, but the lower-capacity card also carried a cut-down GPU configuration...
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    RTX 5090 Soldered Power Mod: What It Proves and Doesn't

    A reported direct-to-PCB power modification on an RTX 5090 has made for a dramatic overclocking image: instead of using the graphics card’s removable 16-pin power plugs, wires were soldered around the board’s original power-input areas. The altered system reportedly booted and completed testing...
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    ZOTAC RTX 5080 Anniversary Edition Is Cosmetic, Not Faster

    ZOTAC’s GeForce RTX 5080 SOLID CORE OC 20th Anniversary Edition is now a retail product rather than a Computex showpiece, but prospective buyers should treat it as a limited cosmetic-and-bundle variant, not a faster RTX 5080. The card uses the same 16 GB Blackwell-based GPU, 2,640 MHz factory...
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    PC Partner Warns Entry-Level GPU Shortages Worsen in 2026

    PC Partner Group, the board maker behind Zotac, Inno3D and Manli graphics cards, has warned that GPU availability will worsen through the second half of 2026 and that the entry-level segment faces the sharpest shortages. The warning is more than another vague prediction about AI squeezing...
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    Radeon RX 9050 4GB Has Half the Bandwidth of 8GB Model

    AMD’s newly published Radeon RX 9050 (4GB) product page confirms that the OEM-only version is a substantially different graphics card from the RX 9050 8GB sold under the same core name. It retains the same 16 RDNA 4 Compute Units and 1,024 stream processors, but AMD has cut its memory interface...
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    Nvidia OC Graphics Cards Deliver Only 1–3% More Performance

    Paying extra for an “OC” badge on an Nvidia graphics card usually buys a factory-approved clock offset measured in tens of megahertz, not a meaningful tier of performance. BGR’s August 11 explainer reaches the right broad conclusion: for most Windows gamers, an overclocked version of the same...
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    Gigabyte AORUS INFINITY: U.S. RTX 50 Stock Remains Unclear

    Gigabyte’s AORUS INFINITY graphics-card family is now a real retail product line rather than a Computex display piece, but the claimed U.S. rollout needs a more careful reading than “now available” suggests. ThePCEnthusiast reports listings for the RTX 5080 INFINITY, RTX 5070 Ti INFINITY, and...
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    Steam Machine vs Arc B580: A $249 GPU Is Not a PC

    BGR’s list of four graphics cards that outperform Valve’s $1,049 Steam Machine is technically correct, but its most useful conclusion is narrower than the headline suggests. The Intel Arc B580 12GB, AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT, Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070, and GeForce RTX 5090 can all beat Valve’s...
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    Nvidia RTX 50 Super: No Release Date or Price to Wait For

    Nvidia has not abandoned an RTX 50 Super lineup in any public sense, because it has never announced one. What appears to have happened is less definitive but more consequential for buyers: a refresh widely expected to add substantially more VRAM has become commercially awkward amid expensive...