Hacker News with Generative AI: Graphics Cards

Ask HN: Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 arrives May 19 at $299 revive PC builds? (ycombinator.com)
Nvidia just announced that the GeForce RTX 5060 will hit shelves on May 19 starting at $299. It succeeds the GTX 1060/RTX 3060 line, adds DLSS 4 and Multi-Frame Generation—but still ships with 8 GB of VRAM amid ongoing supply shortages.

Graphics Cards, Hardware, Gaming, Technology

8 points by byte-bolter 1 day ago | 6 comments

Nvidia didn't just raise prices–they deleted an entire GPU tier (reddit.com)
NVIDIA didn’t just raise prices—they deleted an entire GPU tier, and the math doesn't add up (self.pcmasterrace)

Graphics Cards, NVIDIA, Consumer Technology, Price Increases

13 points by LorenDB 11 days ago | 1 comments

Ask HN: Why do people buy Nvidia RTX 5090 at x2 the MSRP? (ycombinator.com)
Ask HN: Why do people buy Nvidia RTX 5090 at x2 the MSRP?

Hardware, Consumerism, Graphics Cards, Nvidia, Gaming

11 points by behnamoh 22 days ago | 10 comments

Running Local LLMs? [Tenstorrent] 32GB Card Might Be Better Than Your RTX 5090 (hardware-corner.net)
Tenstorrent, the AI and RISC-V compute company helmed by industry veteran Jim Keller, has officially opened pre-orders for its new lineup of Blackhole and Wormhole PCIe add-in cards.

Hardware, AI, Graphics Cards

16 points by mdp2021 31 days ago | 6 comments

Vramfs: Vram Based Filesystem for Linux (github.com/Overv)
Unused RAM is wasted RAM, so why not put some of that VRAM in your graphics card to work?

Linux, Operating Systems, Graphics Cards, Memory Management

130 points by signa11 41 days ago | 41 comments

RDNA 4's “Out-of-Order” Memory Accesses (chipsandcheese.com)
AMD's RDNA 4 brings a variety of memory subsystem enhancements. Among those, one slide stood out because it dealt with out-of-order memory accesses. According to the slide, RDNA 4 allows requests from different shaders to be satisfied out-of-order, and adds new out-of-order queues for memory requests.

AMD, Graphics Cards, Hardware, Memory, Performance

165 points by ingve 46 days ago | 11 comments

Looking Ahead at Intel's Xe3 GPU Architecture (chipsandcheese.com)
Intel’s foray into high performance graphics has enjoyed impressive progress over the past few years, and the company is not letting up on the gas.

Graphics Cards, Hardware, Intel, Technology

119 points by ryandotsmith 50 days ago | 36 comments

Nvidia's RTX Pro 6000 has 96GB of VRAM and 600W of power (theverge.com)
Nvidia is announcing its RTX Pro Blackwell series of GPUs today, designed to meet the needs of professional designers, developers, data scientists, and creatives.

Nvidia, GPUs, Hardware, Graphics Cards, Professional Workstations

63 points by mfiguiere 51 days ago | 69 comments

Raytracing on Intel's Arc B580 (chipsandcheese.com)
Intel’s discrete GPU strategy has emphasized add-on features ever since Alchemist launched. Right from the start, Intel invested heavily in dedicated matrix multiplication units, raytracing accelerators, and hardware video codecs. Battlemage continues that trend. Raytracing deserves attention because raytraced effects are gaining prominence on an increasing number of titles.

Graphics Cards, Ray Tracing, Intel, Gaming

101 points by rbanffy 54 days ago | 86 comments

Llama.cpp AI Performance with the GeForce RTX 5090 Review (phoronix.com)
In beginning the NVIDIA Blackwell Linux testing with the GeForce RTX 5090 compute performance, besides all the CUDA/OpenCL/OptiX benchmarks delivered last week a number of readers asked about AI performance and in particular the Llama.cpp performance with the RTX 5090 flagship graphics card.

AI, Graphics Cards, Performance, Benchmarking, Open Source

113 points by kristianp 60 days ago | 78 comments

AMD Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT review: RDNA 4 fixes a lot of AMD's problems (arstechnica.com)
AMD's Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT are its first cards based on the RDNA 4 GPU architecture.

Graphics Cards, AMD, Hardware Reviews

6 points by LorenDB 64 days ago | 0 comments

AMD Radeon RX 9070 Series Linux GPU Compute Performance (phoronix.com)
In addition to the Radeon RX 9070 series Linux gaming/graphics benchmarks with today's embargo lift, I've also spent some time working on some GPU compute benchmarks for these first RDNA4 graphics cards.

AMD, Linux, GPU, Graphics Cards, Performance

13 points by mfiguiere 64 days ago | 1 comments

UEFI-Only Support for AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series Graphics and Later (amd.com)
This article provides information about UEFI requirements for AMD graphics cards based on the AMD RDNA™ 4 Architecture and later.

AMD, Graphics Cards, UEFI, Hardware, Software

38 points by doener 66 days ago | 48 comments

AMD Radeon RX 9070 Series Technical Deep Dive (techpowerup.com)
The next generation of AMD Radeon is here! The company today formally announced its Radeon RX 9070 series of performance-segment graphics cards, powered by the new RDNA 4 graphics architecture.

AMD, Graphics Cards, Technology, Hardware, Gaming

11 points by dagmx 70 days ago | 1 comments

AMD RDNA 4 – AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series Graphics Cards (amd.com)
AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today unveiled the highly-anticipated AMD RDNA™ 4 graphics architecture with the launch of the AMD Radeon™ RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 graphics cards as a part of the Radeon™ RX 9000 Series.

Graphics Cards, AMD, Hardware, Technology, Gaming

105 points by pella 70 days ago | 182 comments

Nvidia confirms 'rare' RTX 5090 and 5070 Ti manufacturing issue (theverge.com)
It’s true: Nvidia has just confirmed it shipped some RTX 5090, RTX 5090D, and even some RTX 5070 Ti graphics chips that were missing render units, as TechPowerUp originally reported — and that you’ll be able to get a replacement if your card was affected.

Nvidia, Graphics Cards, Hardware, Manufacturing, Technology

8 points by delaugust 75 days ago | 1 comments

Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 Spotted with Missing ROPs, Nvidia Confirms the Issue (techpowerup.com)
TechPowerUp has discovered that there are NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 graphics cards in retail circulation that come with too few render units, which lowers performance.

Hardware, Graphics Cards, Nvidia, Performance Issues

16 points by cratermoon 76 days ago | 6 comments

Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 Linux GPU Compute Benchmarks (phoronix.com)
While there have been a lot of GeForce RTX 5090 Windows gaming benchmarks since the review embargo lift yesterday, for those more fascinated by this high-end Blackwell desktop graphics card for its GPU compute potential on Linux, this article is for you.

Nvidia, Linux, Graphics Cards, Benchmarks, GPU Compute

21 points by shikharbhardwaj 80 days ago | 8 comments

Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 Through GeForce RTX 5080/5090 GPU Compute Performance (phoronix.com)
Complementing the recent Linux GPU benchmarks of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 and GeForce RTX 5090 looking at both the Linux / Steam Play gaming performance as well as GPU compute and other areas, in today's testing is a wide multi-generation look seeing how the NVIDIA GeForce performance has evolved going back to the GeForce GTX 980 Maxwell GPUs up through the newest GeForce RTX 5080/5090 graphics cards.

Graphics Cards, Performance, Gaming, Linux, Benchmarks

28 points by mfiguiere 80 days ago | 15 comments

12VHPWR on RTX5090 is Concerning [video] (youtube.com)

Hardware, Graphics Cards, Video, Technology

3 points by ChiefNotAClue 87 days ago | 0 comments

Intel's Battlemage Architecture (chipsandcheese.com)
Intel’s Alchemist architecture gave the company a foot in the door to the high performance graphics segment. The Arc A770 proved to be a competent first effort, able to run many games with credible performance. Now, Intel is passing the torch to a new graphics architecture, named Battlemage.

Graphics Cards, Intel, Hardware, Gaming

212 points by ksec 87 days ago | 145 comments

RTX 5090 cable overheats to 150 degrees Celsius (tomshardware.com)

Hardware, Graphics Cards, Overheating, Gaming

89 points by LorenDB 87 days ago | 4 comments

Nvidia's RTX 5090 power connectors are melting (theverge.com)
Ah shit, here we go again. Two owners of Nvidia’s new RTX 5090 Founders Edition GPUs have reported melted power connectors and damage to their PSUs.

Hardware, Graphics Cards, Nvidia, Technology, Consumer Electronics

416 points by ambigious7777 87 days ago | 511 comments

First credible report of RTX 5090 FE with melted connector appears (tomshardware.com)

Graphics Cards, Hardware, Technology, Gaming

35 points by LorenDB 88 days ago | 19 comments

Nvidia RTX Blackwell GPU Architecture [pdf] (nvidia.com)

Nvidia, Graphics Cards, Hardware, Computer Architecture

10 points by ydnyshhh 96 days ago | 0 comments

Snowden slams Nvidia RTX 5080 as 'a monopolistic crime against the consumer' (pcgamer.com)

Nvidia, Graphics Cards, Consumer Technology

6 points by solardev 96 days ago | 3 comments

GeForce RTX 5090 and 5080 sell out almost instantly (pcworld.com)
No points for guessing this one in advance. The morning of the official retail launch for Nvidia’s next-gen GeForce RTX 50-series graphics cards, they’re almost impossible to actually order at online stores in the United States just an hour after the sales began.

Graphics Cards, Hardware, Gaming, Supply Chain

7 points by belter 99 days ago | 1 comments

ROCm Device Support Wishlist (github.com/ROCm)
We would like to hear from the community what other cards you would like to see ROCm support for. Currently compatibility matrix for Linux is at https://rocm.docs.amd.com/projects/install-on-linux/en/latest/reference/system-requirements.html and Windows is at https://rocm.docs.amd.com/projects/install-on-windows/en/latest/reference/system-requirements.html.

Open Source, Hardware, AMD, Graphics Cards

205 points by pella 108 days ago | 173 comments

Intel Arc B570 Graphics Performance on Linux Review (phoronix.com)
Last month when Intel formally introduced Battlemage graphics their initial products in the B-Series were the B570 and B580 graphics cards.

Graphics Cards, Linux, Performance, Intel, Reviews

8 points by rbanffy 113 days ago | 0 comments

Asus launches first Thunderbolt 5 eGPU with RTX 5090 (theverge.com)
This smoky black translucent box isn’t a gaming PC — instead, it might be the most powerful single-cable portable docking station ever conceived.

Hardware, Graphics Cards, Thunderbolt, Portable Devices, Asus

12 points by Lwrless 122 days ago | 2 comments