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Yahoo
30-04-2025
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MSI's Yellow RTX 5090 Power Connector Is No Defense Against Burning GPU Cables
Another RTX 5090 has run into problems of blue screens and damaged cables, and in this case despite the user connecting it using MSI's yellow-tipped power cables, which were designed to minimize user error. Although the card itself appears to have survived the incident, the MSI 12V-2x6 specialized adapter did not, suggesting that even the enhanced safety of official cabling can't prevent these mishaps. Among a range of surprising problems with the Nvidia RTX 50 series, the case of melting and burning cables has been one of the most bizarre. Despite changes made to the Nvidia 600W 12V-2x6 power connector since the launch of the RTX 4090 three years ago, the newer RTX 5090, 5080, and even 5070 Ti cards have all been shown capable of melting or damaging connected power cables during normal operation. Although user error has been blamed on these kinds of problems before, it seems increasingly unlikely to be the main culprit when even those using specialized adapters are running into the same issue. In this instance, the owner of a $3,150 MSI RTX 5090 Suprim graphics card faced a series of blue screen errors. When checking on the GPU, they discovered burn marks on the individual wires within the specialized MSI 12V-2x6 adapter. This is despite it being one of MSI's special yellow connectors, which make it easy to see if the connector isn't plugged in properly—if you can see the yellow, it is not. Credit: QuasarZone That proved no defence against this ongoing issue with Nvidia's RTX 50-series cards, though. Videocardz reports that though the card appears to be working, the owner is seeking a replacement from MSI as part of the RMA process. They claimed to have only played games for a few hours on the card—something that should be well within its capabilities—and it didn't even pull its full power, sitting at around 400W throughout. This instance is particularly problematic for Nvidia and claims of user error being the main cause of burned or melted cables. Although using the native power cables with your PSU is probably the safest way to connect a graphics card to your system, the second-best and most highly recommended method is using the "official" power adapters that come with the card. In this case, it was even one of MSI's cables designed specifically to make instances like this less likely. Along with the yellow tip, it even features shorter sensor pins, ensuring that the card cannot draw its full complement of power unless they are plugged in completely. The saga continues with Nvidia's problematic power connector. While this is just one more, it is one more in an already lengthy list of damaged cards. Even accounting for user error, it seems like further redesigns are in order to make sure this doesn't happen with future GPUs.
Yahoo
07-03-2025
- Business
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AMD did it! Now we need to keep the pressure up for price cuts
Well, look at that. AMD actually released a graphics cards that was competitive on price, performance, and features with Nvidia. And it managed to keep enough cards in stock for the launch that it wasn't immediately ruined by scalpers. Although that might seem like a low bar to reach, it's what passes for a success story for GPU launches in 2025, because Nvidia's has been one of the worst we've ever seen. As exciting as it is that there's a new graphics card that's actually kind of good and worth paying money for, though, it's not time for AMD (or fans) to rest on their laurels. There's more to push for: most notably that prices should come down further. The RX 9070 XT is an awesome graphics card — one of the best in a long time. It offers 5070 Ti/4080 performance for $600-ish, and its feature set is great, too. The RX 9070, though? It's a good card, with 5070-like performance, 16GB of VRAM, and similarly strong features. But its price is only $50 less than the base 9070 XT price. That's far, far too close. This is the same weird pricing choice AMD made with the RX 7900 XT last generation. With just $100 between it and the 7900 XTX, and a much greater gap in performance, the XT model made no sense. It was only later when AMD dropped the price that it became a particularly great value option. AMD should end up doing the same with the 9070 (non-XT), but we need to make sure it does. Margins and margins and they're typically not great with graphics cards, but come on AMD. Drop it down to sub $500 and really put the boot in to Nvidia's gouging. Nvidia needs to step up now. It might still be the king in performance and DLSS might still be a bit better than FSR4, but that's not the win it used to be. Especially when it just doesn't really have any graphics cards to sell at the moment. There are models, there are listings at retailers, but none of them are in stock and the second-hand market is a mess (and AMD might upend that soon, too). Nvidia will need to lower the prices of its 5070 and 5070 Ti if it wants to remain competitive with AMD, and get more of the cards in stock in much greater numbers. That will likely happen in the next few months, but the price cuts will only come if people put their money where there mouth is and buy AMD's new cards. Again, that'll likely happen as the reviews are strong and stock is there, but that momentum needs to be maintained. If Nvidia's cards come back close enough to MSRP, they're still too expensive: The 5070 Ti in particular. Hopefully Nvidia sees the writing on the wall after a few weeks of high 9070 XT sales and realises multiple frame generation alone isn't going to be enough to save the 50-series. We need to then continue that momentum forward into the rest of this generation and the next. Graphics card prices have grown dramatically in recent years, and though inflation and tariffs can be blamed for some of it, there's also Nvidia's sheer greed at play — and AMD has been just as guilty when it's had market dominance with CPUs. PC gaming is always going to be that bit more expensive than console gaming, but no one should be forced to spend $500+ on a graphics card to get something that can play the latest games at 4K resolution. That's more than the entire price of a full console, even before factoring in the added cost of a monitor and all the additional peripherals. Halo products like the RTX 5090 are always going to be ridiculous, and to some extent they should be. For those on mega bucks there isn't much of a difference between spending $1,500 and $2,000. But for everyone else, there needs to be better options for affordable, high-fidelity PC gaming. Intel is handling the super-entry level portion of the market, AMD's done the right thing with its 9070 XT, but I'd still like to see the 9070 sub-$500 before long, and the 9060 needs to be the darling $300 card we all know it wants to be. That might be wishful thinking, but once Nvidia's AI-hype-gravy-train starts to hit reality and that bubble pops, it might need to remember its roots and start selling gamers GPUs that are more than just marketing spin and a high price tags.
Yahoo
28-02-2025
- Business
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AMD Radeon RX 9070 Series Graphics Aim for High Speed at a Solid Price
Following up on its CES announcement, AMD dropped some more information about its upcoming Radeon RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT RDNA 4 chips -- notably the target pricing of $549 and $599 -- to address 1440p and 4K players, respectively. And they'll be available from its add-in-board partners, such as Acer, Asus, Sapphire, XFX, ASRock, Gigabyte, PowerColor and more, on March 6. AMD says these cards are "built for 4K gaming at a 1440p price," comparable to the recent Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 and 5070 Ti. We'll see: It seems like the company is counting on its software to do a lot of heavy lifting, though that's not uncommon. Radeon RX 9060 cards are slated for later in the year. We did get more specs about the cards. For upgraders, AMD retains the old-school 8-pin power connection. As previously revealed, this RDNA 4 generation has been reworked and optimized over the previous architecture, streamlining the core rendering compute units to improve efficiency for both the chip and the on-board memory. The CUs come with improved third-gen ray tracing accelerators, which the company claims delivers twice the throughput over RDNA 3.x. AMD also improved its media engine to address complaints by streamers trying to play and stream on one system. The chips also include upgraded AI accelerators, which can handle more data types for theoretically much better feature (like denoise in Lightroom) and generative AI performance. It also has better memory handling and includes updates to its ONNX libraries -- up to 8x better, the company claims. Plus, the cards AI improvements are ready for neural rendering. Along with the cards, AMD is introducing the newest generation of its upscaling technology, FidelityFX Super Resolution 4 -- the one that requires support incorporated by the game developers -- Fluid Motion Frames 2.1. It can work in conjunction with the company's driver-based HYPR-RX one-click performance optimization. AMD says FSR 4 delivers better results upscaling than native 4K, not just in performance, but in quality. Since the cards are midrange, based on AMD's numbers, you'll really need to use the various software solutions if you want playable 4K; it's unclear if they'll need the same boost for 1440p. The new cards are faster than the last generation, but a 168% increase in F1 24 1440p Ultra with ray tracing doesn't mean much if you don't know the unboosted frame rates (what if the last gen only hit 10fps?). Testing will tell.
Yahoo
25-02-2025
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Nvidia confirms rare GeForce RTX 50-series GPU issue
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Nvidia released its latest GeForce RTX 50-series GPUs in January, and they're almost impossible to buy at retail. The powerful graphics card not only pushes the boundaries of how PC games can look, but they also make use of AI to make the hardware work more efficiently. With the advanced technology in the RTX 50-series, there is a likelihood of issues popping up, and Nvidia confirmed a very rare problem affecting the GPUs. A small number of Zotac, MSI, Gigabyte, and Nvidia RTX 5090 Founders Edition GPUs were found to have fewer render output units (ROPs) than listed in the specifications, as first spotted by TechPowerUp on Friday. The cards are listed to have 176 units, but some were round to have 168 ROPs, which contributes to a performance loss of 4-5%. Nvidia confirmed the existence of the issue with Tom's Hardware and says the problem only affects less than 1% of RTX 5090s and 5070 Ti GPUs. 'We have identified a rare issue affecting less than 0.5% (half a percent) of GeForce RTX 5090 / 5090D and 5070 Ti GPUs, which have one fewer ROP than specified," an Nvidia representative told Tom's Hardware Saturday. "The average graphical performance impact is 4%, with no impact on AI and Compute workloads.' Nvidia explained that this problem stems from issues in production and quality control. Those who have been affected are advised to contact the makers of the GPUs and obtain an RMA to send back the affected graphics card. So far, the issues with RTX 50 series cards are few and far between. Earlier in the month, there were two instances of 12VHPWR cables melting. In both cases, the cable was connected from the power supply to an RTX 5090 GPU. Also in both cases, the users had a Asus Loki SFX-L 1000W ATX 3.0 Power Supply so it's unclear if this is actually a problem with the Nvidia GPUs. Both card owners were provided with replacements by Nvidia. On Saturday, one poster on the Nvidia subreddit claimed their ASUS ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 caught on fire while browsing the internet. It's unclear if the GPU was the sole issue or if there was some other problem that occurred to cause the fire. Since the RTX 50-series began rolling out in January, the GPUs have been hard to find. Retailers are selling out of cards within minutes due to high demand for the new GPUs, which also brings in scalper bots that can create hundreds of orders in seconds while the human customers are still trying to complete one order. The owner of these bots then attempts to sell the cards for a premium on platforms like eBay although some people are trying to make it harder for scalpers to make a profit. Nvidia warned of the scarcity problem before the RTX 50-series GPUs were released, and the company is making an effort to help those customers who really want the new graphics cards. Nvidia created Verified Priority Access for customers who want to purchase a GeForce RTX 5090 or RTX 5080 Founders Edition graphics card directly from the company. To get access, customers must have an Nvidia account created on or before Jan. 30, 2025, and fill out a form. Those lucky enough to be picked will be able to purchase either GPU they picked when filling out the form directly from Nvidia.
Yahoo
24-02-2025
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Blackwell launch gets even worse as Nvidia confirms some RTX 5090 and RTX 5070 Ti GPUs are underperforming in games – here's how to check if you're affected
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Nvidia has confirmed that approximately 1 in 200 of its RTX 5090 and RTX 5070 Ti GPUs have an issue with their graphics chips The problem is a loss of ROPs, a key element of the inner workings of the GPU Nvidia says those with an affected graphics card should contact the maker to arrange a replacement Following reports of some RTX 5090 GPUs failing to perform as well as they should in gaming, Nvidia has confirmed that there is an issue with the chips in the Blackwell flagship, as well as the newly arrived RTX 5070 Ti GPU. This is a hardware-level problem, meaning it's a fault deep in the chip which can't be fixed, and it's slowing down these graphics cards by an appreciable (albeit variable) amount. In a statement addressing the matter, Nvidia told The Verge: "We have identified a rare issue affecting less than 0.5% (half a percent) of GeForce RTX 5090 / 5090D and 5070 Ti GPUs which have one fewer ROP than specified. "The average graphical performance impact is 4%, with no impact on AI and Compute workloads. Affected consumers can contact the board manufacturer for a replacement. The production anomaly has been corrected." Your first question may well be: what's a ROP, then? ROP stands for Raster Operations Pipeline, and this is hardware that's a key part of the process of rendering the graphics for your PC games. (It's a lot more complicated than that, in reality, but that's all you really need to know). With fewer of those pipelines available to deal with the relevant graphics processing tasks during gameplay, unsurprisingly, performance is a bit slower. Also, if you're wondering about the mentioned RTX 5090D, that's the variant of the Blackwell flagship sold in China, which was involved in the initial reports of this issue – notably the RTX 5070 Ti wasn't, though. This whole episode unfolded yesterday, having first emerged courtesy of TechPowerUp's review of a Zotac RTX 5090 Solid graphics card (via VideoCardz). In its review, the tech site found that this third-party model was somehow underperforming versus an Nvidia RTX 5090 Founders Edition (the performance baseline used by TechPowerUp in gauging the relative power of the flagship GPU variants). Indeed, the Zotac RTX 5090 was around 5% slower than Nvidia's own model, while running at the same clock speeds, which obviously didn't make much sense. Not until TechPowerUp investigated and found this wasn't an issue pertaining to faulty cooling (or other likely-seeming root causes), but in fact that the Zotac GPU was missing ROPs. The RTX 5090 graphics card was showing 168 ROPs enabled (in the GPU-Z utility) rather than the expected count (and official spec) of 176 ROPs. All vendors are potentially affected by this gremlin in the works, of course, as this is an issue with the chips produced by Nvidia, and sent to third-party partners to be used in the manufacturing of their graphics cards. That was swiftly shown yesterday as reports started to come in, as folks started checking their boards for this issue. While in its statement, Nvidia mentions the lack of one ROP, it is referring to one block of them, so as observed, the ROP count is reduced by eight (the number in a block) with graphics cards that have this issue. To check your RTX 5090 or 5070 Ti, you can fire up a tool that peers deep into the innards of your hardware, monitoring and reporting back on multiple elements of the spec. Obviously what you're looking for is the ROPs count, and that can be provided by GPU-Z as already mentioned, or an alternative utility like HWiNFO (and probably other software out there, no doubt). In GPU-Z, you'll find the ROPs number listed in the Graphics Card tab, on the seventh line down, over on the left-hand side (we've got an explainer here, if you want further details on GPU-Z). For the RTX 5090, the number should be 176, whereas 168 is what the impaired flagship models are showing. With the RTX 5070 Ti, the correct spec is 96 ROPs, so in theory, it will be reduced to 88 ROPs (but I haven't seen confirmation of that yet, so perhaps it could have less of an impact). If you do have an RTX 5090 or 5070 Ti with this problem, how much will it affect you in practical terms? Well, that varies as I already mentioned, although as stated the average impact is a performance loss of something in the order of 5% (or thereabouts – Nvidia is saying 4%). However, you may not notice any difference at all in some cases, as one game may use the mentioned pipelines (ROPs) more heavily, while another may hardly touch them at all. So some games could be slowed down by more than 5%, and others may have a negligible loss in frame rates (such a low impact you'd never be able to tell). However, before you go thinking that maybe this isn't such a big deal after all, rest assured, it is. A fault like this should not have cleared quality assurance and made it into production hardware in the first place. And when you recall how much buyers have forked out for the RTX 5090 in particular – the MSRP is a true wallet-worrier, and many folks have overpaid beyond that – well, you can start to see how this is a big letdown. If you have an RTX 5090 or RTX 5070 Ti, check your graphics card in GPU-Z as outlined above. If your model is showing a loss of ROPs, as advised by Nvidia, contact your board manufacturer and begin the process of having the graphics card replaced. That could be a troublesome matter, though, for those who may have sold their old GPU when they upgraded (if they need to send the faulty Blackwell graphics card back, before receiving a new one – and are left with a gaming PC without an engine, essentially). The other worry is that it's not like fresh stock is going to be easy to come by, either, right now. Future GPUs shouldn't suffer from this issue because as Nvidia observes, the 'production anomaly' here has been fixed, as you would hope. Nvidia is investigating reports of crashes plaguing RTX 5090 and 5080 GPUs, with possible driver issues maybe hitting RTX 4000 models too Finally, some good news about Nvidia's new GPUs: RTX 5090 stock levels rumored to surge in a month or so Where to buy an Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti - your best bets for getting the upper-mid-range GPU
