NVIDIA Mandates TDP Transparency for RTX 50 Mobility GPUs
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According to news report shared by ComputerBase, NVIDIA has now mandated all laptop manufacturers to be transparent about TDP wattages on spec sheet and website to avoid consumer confusion. NVIDIA is hoping to fix long-standing with performance issues due to low TGP/TDP values causing lower FPS due to lower Clock Frequencies to make GPU under TDP limit.
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AMD Announces RDNA 4 Based 9070 and 9070 XT at USD 549 and 599
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AMD has finally announced the RDNA 4 based 9070 and 9070 XT GPUs. The 9070 and XT version is a 16GB variant with 3500 and 4096 cores respectively. The 9070 is priced at USD 549 and the 9070 XT is priced at USD 599.
AMD's focus was to gain market share and provide maximum value to the customers.
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RTX 5080 Reviews Are Now Available
NVIDIA RTX 5090 Embargo Lifted for Reviews
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Nvidia has lifted the review embargo for the RTX 5090. In general you can notice up to 30% improvement in heavy ray tracing and better DLSS transformer model quality and performance. Current owners of 4090 can skip it if efficiency is utmost importance rather than brute force power and performance.
I will link some of the videos and articles below which I personally watched to get overall idea of RTX 5090 performance and power efficiency.
AMD Delays Radeon 9070 to Deliver Better Software Experience
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AMD has delayed the release of the Radeon 9070 series to deliver a better software experience. The company is working on optimizing the software for the new GPU, which is expected to be released towards the end of March 2025.
The main highlights of RDNA4 is their ML focussed FSR experience to compete with DLSS 3 to provide better performance and quality.