Nvidia’s next-gen GPUs for gamers might arrive sooner than we expect. According to a recent report, Nvidia’s board partners are gearing up the GeForce RTX 50-series graphics cards, which are expected to hit the market in the fourth quarter. Nvidia is expected to initially focus on the RTX 5090 and the RTX 5080, although we can’t be too sure about these names.
If the rumors are true, this approach would mirror Nvidia’s RTX 40 series launch pattern where the RTX 4090 debuted toward the end of 2022, followed shortly by the RTX 4080 a few weeks later. The more affordable RTX 4070 Ti and 4070 were then released in early 2023.
UDN’s report also mentions that industry analysts seem positive about Nvidia’s significant biennial upgrades to GPUs, and they anticipate a rise in shipment volumes for board manufacturers this year. This boost is also expected to drive up the average selling price of graphics card products. In short, start saving up gamers!
It is expected that the RTX 50-series will be based on the recently announced 4nm Blackwell architecture. It is built on TSMC’s 4NP node, an enhanced version of the 5nm node where two GPU dies are connected across a 10TB-per-second interconnect. It can handle double the model size of last-gen Ada Lovelace, and supports a new 4-bit floating point instruction set.
There’s also speculation that the RTX 5090 and 5080 will incorporate GDDR7 memory, while the RTX 5090 could sport a substantial 24,576 CUDA cores and a 512-bit memory bus. As per YouTuber RedGamingTech, we could see a huge jump in VRAM, going up to 36GB of memory in the RTX 5090.
According to Moore’s Law Is Dead, the performance improvement between Ada and Blackwell might not be substantial. The YouTuber’s insider source indicated that “Blackwell’s rasterization improvement over Ada won’t be as remarkable as the leap from Ampere to Ada.” However, the source also suggested that Nvidia could create the perception of a similar performance boost for the RTX 5090 “if it felt challenged.”
However, from a different perspective, there’s speculation from sources like RedGamingTech. In their video, the YouTuber asserts that we could see up to a 2x increase in performance between Lovelace and Blackwell. They suggest that the RTX 50-series might double the ray tracing performance compared to the RTX 40-series, alongside an overall performance boost of up to 2x.
RedGamingTech is uncertain if this pertains to rasterization, making it challenging to gauge these possible improvements accurately. Nevertheless, they anticipate clock speeds exceeding 3GHz, which would represent a significant increase over Ada, while noting that this applies primarily to overclocked models.
The absolutely absurd idea of putting a touchscreen display on a mouse isn't exactly new. Turtle Beach already did it with its Command Series MC7, which features a 2.25-inch control screen. But apparently, even that wasn't ridiculous enough for Arctic Fox Technologies. Its new Super Mouse looks like someone took the chunky old Atari ST mouse, slapped a touchscreen and scroll wheel on it, and called it an upgrade.
The result is a rather unusual-looking mouse that is now on Kickstarter, starting at $199. And as ridiculous as it looks, some of its features are genuinely intriguing.
Apple is less than a day away from launching its highly anticipated OLED MacBook Pro with a touch-sensitive screen. But it appears that the upgrade is going to cost a pretty penny. According to a report by Bloomberg, Apple is reportedly eyeing a starting price of $2,899 for the 14-inch MacBook Pro, while the 16-inch version could start at $3,399 in the US.
"At $2,899, the 14-inch model would mark the highest starting price for a new MacBook Pro model, surpassing the $2,799 Apple charged for a 17-inch version introduced in 2006," says the report. The report claims that Apple is targeting a minimum price hike of $400 for its upcoming redesigned 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models.
I've spent a good amount of time digging into the spec sheet of the new M6 MacBook Pro (14-inch), and for all intents and purposes, this is a classic Apple "chip and connectivity" refresh. It's not a full redesign. The chassis, Liquid Retina XDR panel, speakers, ports, and battery, all of them carry over unchanged.
However, the M6 brings more cores, stronger on-device AI, higher memory bandwidth on the larger configs, and modern wireless. Here’s the practical rundown of what actually improved, and whether those gains are worth your money.