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The nvidia rtx tag on WindowsForum.com covers discussions about Nvidia GeForce RTX graphics cards across gaming, creative work, and Windows AI. Recent threads highlight RTX GPU benchmark databases spanning multiple generations, underused RTX features for video and calls, and rumored Intel x86 SoCs with integrated RTX graphics. A major recurring theme is Microsoft expanding Windows 11 local AI APIs to run on supported RTX 30-series and newer GPUs with at least 6GB of VRAM, moving on-device language models beyond Copilot+ PCs with NPUs. The tag also explores RTX-accelerated creative workflows in apps like Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve, offering practical insight for PC builders and Windows enthusiasts.
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    NVIDIA RTX Mega Geometry 2.0 Adds Cluster LOD for Ray Tracing

    NVIDIA has released RTX Kit 2026.3, a bundle of rendering SDK updates for game developers, together with RTX Mega Geometry SDK 2.0. The main addition is a "Cluster LOD" path that streams continuous level-of-detail triangle clusters for very dense meshes into ray-traced scenes. NVIDIA announced...
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    KB5128776 Updates NVIDIA TensorRT-RTX to 2.2609.1.0 for Windows 11

    Microsoft released KB5128776 on September 22, 2026. It moves the NVIDIA TensorRT-RTX Execution Provider, the Windows ML component that runs ONNX AI models on GeForce RTX GPUs, to version 2.2609.1.0 on Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2. Windows Update installs it automatically, and it replaces KB5121777...
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    RTX 2080 Ti Shipped Before Windows DXR or Ray-Traced Games

    Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 2080 Ti and RTX 2080 reached buyers on September 20, 2018, putting hardware-built ray tracing into enthusiast gaming PCs for the first time—but the feature those cards were sold to showcase was not yet usable in a shipping game. Eight years later, the anniversary is less a...
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    Perplexity Portable Computer for Windows: The 24GB RTX Catch

    Perplexity Portable Computer is now available in the Perplexity app for compatible Windows PCs with NVIDIA GeForce RTX or RTX PRO graphics, NVIDIA announced September 14. The release brings Perplexity’s multistep Computer workflow to local Windows hardware, where NVIDIA and Perplexity say it can...
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    CONTROL Resonant PC Requirements: RTX 5080 at 4K Path Tracing

    Remedy’s final PC requirements for CONTROL Resonant make one point unusually clear: an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 is not the price of admission for the game, or even for ray tracing in general. It is the GPU named for one very specific top-end objective—2160p at 60 FPS in the chart’s Path Tracing...
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    Surface Laptop Ultra in South Africa: What’s Confirmed

    Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra is planned for South Africa, but the practical details that matter to buyers—local price, launch date, retail configurations and final performance—are still open. That distinction is especially important for a machine being framed as a high-end Windows...
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    FEVM FN80G Specs, China Price and What to Verify

    FEVM’s FN80G is an unusually ambitious small-form-factor PC on paper: an Intel desktop Core Ultra 200S processor paired with graphics ranging from an RTX 5060 Laptop GPU to an RTX 5090 Laptop GPU, plus unusually strong networking and storage expansion for a roughly 2.6-litre chassis. But the...
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    GamersNexus GPU Mega Charts Launch as Long-Term Benchmark Database

    GamersNexus has published its first dedicated GPU Mega Charts page, a permanent comparison database spanning Nvidia RTX 20-series through RTX 50-series cards, AMD’s RX 5000 through RX 9000 families, and Intel Arc Alchemist and Battlemage parts. For PC builders deciding whether an RTX 2060, RX...
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    Nvidia RTX GPUs: 5 Underused Tools for Video, Calls and Games

    An Nvidia GeForce RTX graphics card can now improve far more than frame rates in Cyberpunk 2077 or the visual fidelity of a heavily modded Skyrim installation. Its Tensor Cores, dedicated video engine, driver-level AI features, and increasingly capable Nvidia App can enhance web video, clean up...
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    Intel x86 RTX SoCs by 2028: Serpent Canyon rumor and the Intel-NVIDIA deal

    Intel’s first x86 processors with integrated NVIDIA RTX graphics are reportedly listed on an internal roadmap for the first quarter of 2028, with Igor’s Lab, VideoCardz, and Wccftech tying the leak to a platform name circulating as “Serpent Canyon” or “Serpent Lake.” The leak is not a product...
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    RTX AI PC Explained: Premiere, Photoshop, Resolve and NVIDIA Broadcast Workflows

    Creative Bloq’s sponsored NVIDIA feature argues that GeForce RTX hardware materially improves five creative AI workflows—Premiere Pro transcription, Photoshop Super Resolution, Topaz Photo AI, DaVinci Resolve AI tools, and NVIDIA Broadcast—by moving demanding inference work onto dedicated GPU...
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    Microsoft Tests Windows AI APIs on Nvidia RTX GPUs (No NPU Required)

    Microsoft is testing Windows AI APIs that let supported Nvidia GeForce RTX 30-series and newer GPUs with at least 6GB of VRAM run local language-model workloads through Windows App SDK 2.2 Experimental 9, currently requiring Windows Insider builds, Developer Mode, and updated drivers. That is a...
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    Windows App SDK 2.2: Local AI Language Models Now Run on Nvidia GPUs

    Microsoft’s Windows App SDK 2.2 Experimental 9, released in June 2026, lets Windows 11’s local language model APIs run on supported Nvidia GPUs in non-Copilot+ PCs, starting with GeForce RTX 30-series cards or newer with at least 6GB of VRAM. That does not make neural processing units useless...
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    Windows 11 Local AI Adds Nvidia RTX Support for Phi Silica (Not Copilot+ Recall)

    Microsoft has updated its Windows 11 local AI documentation in June 2026 to let developers run Phi Silica language model APIs on non-Copilot+ PCs with supported Nvidia RTX GPUs, widening on-device text AI beyond machines with dedicated NPUs. The move does not suddenly turn every gaming rig into...
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    Windows 11 Local AI APIs Expand to NVIDIA RTX—Copilot+ Badge Gets Cracked

    Microsoft is expanding Windows 11’s local Language Model APIs beyond Copilot+ PCs to non-Copilot+ systems with supported NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30-series or newer GPUs and at least 6GB of VRAM. That is not the death of Copilot+ PCs, but it is the first serious crack in Microsoft’s neatest AI-PC...
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    MediaTek + NVIDIA RTX Spark: Windows 11 AI PCs with unified memory by Fall 2026

    MediaTek said on June 1, 2026, that it collaborated with NVIDIA on RTX Spark, a new Windows 11 PC platform for slim laptops and compact desktops aimed at local AI agents, creators, developers, and gamers, with first systems expected in fall 2026. The announcement matters less because MediaTek...
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    Microsoft and Nvidia “New Era of PC”: Nvidia-Powered Windows Laptops Explained

    Microsoft and Nvidia are expected to unveil their first jointly developed Windows PCs powered by Nvidia chips during Nvidia’s June 1 GTC Taipei keynote at Computex and Microsoft’s June 2-3 Build conference in San Francisco, according to reporting and coordinated company teasers posted May 29...
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    KB5096139 Updates Nvidia TensorRT-RTX AI Inference in Windows 11 26H1

    Microsoft has published KB5096139, an automatic Windows Update package for Windows 11 version 26H1 that updates the Nvidia TensorRT-RTX Execution Provider to version 2.2605.1.0 for systems with the latest 26H1 cumulative update installed. The dry support-note wording hides a bigger story...
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    NVIDIA vGPU 19.0 & Blackwell: Revolutionizing Enterprise Virtualization with AI & Graphics

    NVIDIA’s vGPU 19.0 release signals a pivotal moment for enterprise virtualization, as it brings unprecedented power and flexibility to modern data centers leveraging the formidable NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Series GPUs. By marrying innovations like Multi-Instance GPU (MIG) partitioning with...
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    NVIDIA Extends Windows 10 Support for Gamers Until 2026: What You Need to Know

    For millions of PC users and gamers worldwide, the question of continued driver and software support for Windows 10 has loomed large, especially as Microsoft’s decade-defining operating system approaches its official end of life. That pivotal date lands in October 2025, marking the endpoint for...
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