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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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    RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Hits $16,000: Why NVIDIA’s 96GB GPU Costs Far More Than RTX 5090

    The GeForce RTX 5090 is the top card NVIDIA sells to gamers. It launched at $1,999 with 32GB of GDDR7 memory and can draw 575W under load, which is more than most gaming PCs need. It still isn't the most powerful desktop GPU NVIDIA makes. That title belongs to the RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell...
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    Nouveau HDMI Deep Color Patches Add RGB 10-16 bpc, Await Review

    A patch series posted to the Linux kernel's dri-devel graphics mailing list adds HDMI Deep Color output to Nouveau, the open-source kernel driver for NVIDIA GPUs. Phoronix reported the series on September 22, 2026 (U.S. Eastern time). If merged, it would let NVIDIA cards send 10, 12 or 16 bits...
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    DOE Awards $60M to Prometheus for Nvidia-Backed Nuclear AI

    Idaho National Laboratory’s AI-nuclear partnership with Nvidia has moved beyond the collaboration announcement highlighted by the American Nuclear Society: the Department of Energy selected the INL-led Prometheus project for a $60 million, three-year Phase II award on July 22. The money remains...
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    GeForce RTX 5090 Listings Hit $9,500, Not Nvidia MSRP

    Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 5090 is appearing at U.S. online retailers for $6,500 to $9,500 or more, turning a graphics card introduced at $1,999 into a component priced above many complete gaming PCs. The striking “10 times the price of a PlayStation 5 Pro” comparison is directionally real for the...
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    FreeToken Runs 753B Models on One GPU With 512GB RAM

    FreeToken is an open-source Mixture-of-Experts inference engine that claims to let an NVIDIA-equipped PC serve models whose full weights far exceed GPU memory, including the 753-billion-parameter GLM-5.2 on a single RTX PRO 6000 workstation card. The important qualification for Windows and PC...
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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...