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The nvidia gpus tag on WindowsForum.com covers discussions about NVIDIA graphics hardware, including GeForce RTX cards, data center accelerators like the H100 and B300, and related software tools. Recent threads highlight monitoring utilities such as LACT and HWiNFO that add per-chip VRAM temperature readings and boost controls for NVIDIA GPUs, useful for Windows users troubleshooting crashes or throttling. Other topics include AI model performance claims on RTX and DGX systems, GPU bundle pricing in retail, longevity expectations for GeForce cards, and infrastructure plans involving large NVIDIA GPU clusters. The tag also touches on comparisons between NVIDIA GPU racks and alternative server designs, with an emphasis on factual analysis of vendor claims and practical implications for buyers and researchers.
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    LACT 0.10.0 Adds NVIDIA Boost Controls, Blackwell Sensors

    LACT 0.10.0 gives Linux users with NVIDIA GPUs two controls that have long been more familiar to Windows overclocking users: a switch to hold the card at its highest performance state and a limited voltage boost adjustment. The August 12 release also adds Blackwell hotspot monitoring and...
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    HWiNFO 8.51 Adds Per-Chip VRAM Temps for NVIDIA and AMD

    HWiNFO v8.51-6045 Beta now exposes per-chip VRAM temperature telemetry on supported NVIDIA and AMD graphics cards, replacing the single “memory temperature” value that has long obscured whether one module is running materially hotter than the rest. For Windows users troubleshooting a GPU that...
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    Samsung SDS Begins H100 and B300 GPU Research Cloud Service

    Samsung SDS says it began supplying GPU capacity on July 20 for South Korea’s 2026 AI Research Computing Support Project, a government-backed program intended to give universities and public research institutions access to infrastructure they could not reasonably build themselves. Chosunbiz...
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    NVIDIA Muse Glimmer 30B: 20K Tokens/sec Claim Conflicts

    NVIDIA’s launch guidance for Meta’s new Muse Glimmer 30B gives local-AI developers a promising model and an immediate reason to slow down before treating its performance claims as purchasing advice. The NVIDIA Technical Blog says the open-weight, dense 30-billion-parameter model is built for...
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    RTX 5090 Bundles Force Buyers to Take Eight Motherboards

    Taiwanese shoppers looking for an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 are being offered bundles so oversized that one includes eight motherboards, while another pairs the card with three premium AM5 boards, two B650M boards, and an AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D. But the numbers behind the PChome24h listings reported...
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    Nvidia GeForce GPUs: 5–8 Years of Use, 10 Years as Bonus

    BGR’s conclusion that an Nvidia graphics card can “easily” last 10 years is plausible for a well-kept desktop card, but its evidence is owner anecdotes rather than a durability study—and its GTX 700-series example misses the more immediate limit for Windows users: software support and usable...
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    Aleria’s 16,000 Nvidia GPU Plan Is a U.S. Target, Not a Deployment

    Abu Dhabi-based Aleria is planning to scale a U.S. deployment from 8,640 Nvidia Grace Blackwell Ultra GPUs to as many as 16,000, while separately earmarking 28 racks of Nvidia DGX Vera Rubin NVL72 systems for the UAE. The important correction is that 16,000 is a U.S. expansion target, not a chip...
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    Majestic Prometheus: No Benchmarks Yet to Challenge Nvidia GPU Racks

    Majestic Labs’ Prometheus server is a real attempt to trade GPU density for a radically larger shared-memory pool, but the company’s headline comparisons to Nvidia blur together three different measurements: memory capacity, memory bandwidth, and GPU-to-GPU fabric bandwidth. For infrastructure...
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    AMD and Nvidia GPU Orders Near 1:1 at Neoclouds, Not Market Share

    Fierce Network reports that “many” AI neoclouds are ordering AMD and Nvidia GPUs at rough 1:1 parity, with at least two providers reportedly standing up 10,000 accelerators from each vendor side by side. If those deployments materialize at the scale described by VAST Data’s John Mao, they would...
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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...
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    Nvidia CUDA: AI Agents Speed Chip Bring-Up, Not Replacement

    Business Insider’s report that AI coding agents are beginning to rewrite the software behind Nvidia’s CUDA platform points to a real change in the AI-chip market: getting a new accelerator to run an AI model is becoming faster. It does not show that CUDA has been recreated, replaced, or made...
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    Nvidia DLSS 5 Leaves RTX Buyers Without VRAM or Frame-Time Data

    Nvidia’s DLSS 5 is no longer being pitched merely as a faster route to a cleaner image. It is being positioned as a real-time neural rendering layer that can alter lighting and material appearance inside a game frame—and that shift gives prospective GeForce buyers a more complicated question...
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    Kimi K3 Gets 20,000 Nvidia GPUs Through Alibaba Cloud Deal

    Moonshot AI’s Kimi team has access to roughly 20,000 Nvidia GPUs through an Alibaba computing agreement, according to Bloomberg reporting republished by The Edge Malaysia. The arrangement gives the Chinese AI startup a substantial pool of accelerator capacity behind Kimi K3, its recently...
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    Google TPUs and AWS Trainium Give AI Buyers Alternatives to Nvidia

    Alphabet and Amazon are turning custom silicon into a more direct challenge to Nvidia’s AI infrastructure business, but their Q2 2026 results show two very different routes to market: Google is selling efficiency, while AWS is selling capacity and choice. As reported by 24/7 Wall St., Google...
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    Nvidia RTX 50 and Radeon RX 9000 GPU Prices May Rise in August

    Nvidia and AMD graphics cards could become more expensive in August as rising GDDR memory costs reach board partners, putting pressure on already inflated retail prices for GeForce RTX 50-series and Radeon RX 9000-series models. Gizmodo, citing supply-chain reports from BenchLife and Board...
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    NVIDIA RTX 50 Super Reportedly on Hold as 3GB GDDR7 Costs Surge

    NVIDIA’s rumored GeForce RTX 50 Super refresh is reportedly on hold as the cost of the 3GB GDDR7 memory chips needed for its higher-VRAM designs rises sharply. TrendForce, citing VideoCardz and Tom’s Hardware, says at least one add-in-board partner has received GPUs but was told not to proceed...
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    Nvidia GPU Screening Delays Malaysia AI Data Center Orders

    Malaysia’s push to become a regional AI and data-center hub is unlikely to be derailed by Nvidia’s tighter customer screening, but the change will add procurement delays, compliance work and greater scrutiny for operators buying advanced accelerators. Reuters, citing a Financial Times report...
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    Nvidia RTX 60 2028 Delay Remains Unconfirmed as RTX 50 Super Rumors Shift

    Reports that Nvidia has pushed its GeForce RTX 60-series gaming GPUs to 2028 remain unconfirmed, despite fresh claims from NoobFeed and other outlets that the company will ship no new consumer GPUs in 2026. Nvidia has not announced an RTX 60 roadmap, cancelled an RTX 50 Super refresh, or...
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    RTX 5050 9GB Rumor Dies as RTX 3060 12GB Returns for Budget Gamers

    NVIDIA has reportedly canceled or indefinitely delayed a 9 GB GeForce RTX 5050 desktop graphics card after bringing the 12 GB GeForce RTX 3060 back into the budget GPU channel in June 2026, according to leaker MEGAsizeGPU and subsequent industry reporting. The move is not official, and NVIDIA...
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    Supermicro Taiwan Raid Shows Export Controls Turn AI Server Supply Chain Into Law

    Super Micro Computer’s Taiwan offices were raided on June 29, 2026, as prosecutors in Keelung expanded an investigation into alleged smuggling of Nvidia-powered AI servers into China through falsified export routes and affiliated distributors. The company says it is cooperating with authorities...
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