More than 700 games and applications feature RTX technologies, and each week new games integrating NVIDIA DLSS, NVIDIA Reflex, and advanced ray-traced effects are released or announced, delivering the definitive PC experience for GeForce RTX players. This week, DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation is multiplying performance in Enlisted, the Half-Life 2 RTX demo, KARMA: The Dark World, The First Berserker: Khazan, and Warhammer 40,000: Darktide. And we can announce that Remedy Entertainment's FBC: Firebreak will launch with DLSS 4 Multi Frame Generation support.

Additionally, there's a DLSS and technology-upgrading Control update available, Kingdom Come: Deliverance II has updated to the latest DLSS Super Resolution transformer AI model, and RF Online Next is launching with support for DLSS Super Resolution. Read on for further details about each of these announcements, and check out our last DLSS article to learn about the addition of DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation to future releases, including Lost Soul Aside, Mecha BREAK, Phantom Blade Zero, Stellar Blade, Tides of Annihilation, and Wild Assault.

HP announced a new addition to its OMEN 16 lineup—the OMEN 16 Slim. HP claims that the thinnest part of the 2025 Omen 16 Slim is only 19.9 mm, which is 16% thinner than the standard Omen 16. Display options include a 16-inch screen with a 16:10 aspect ratio, available in either 1920 x 1200 resolution (with 144 Hz or 165 Hz refresh rate options) or 2560 x 1600 resolution (featuring 250 Hz refresh rate). The processor lineup starts with the Intel Core Ultra 5 225H, with options to upgrade to the Core Ultra 7 255H or even Ultra 9. Memory configurations include 16 GB, 24 GB, or 32 GB of DDR5-5600 RAM, paired with 512 GB or 1 TB PCIe Gen 4 SSD storage.

For graphics, the NVIDIA RTX 5070 is currently the only discrete GPU listed, though HP's "up to" note suggests additional options may arrive later. HP also mentioned that when using "Unleashed Mode," the system can reach up to 105 W TPP while the "advanced cooling technology" can run the laptop at 46 decibels. On the connectivity side, it features one USB-C port, three USB Type-A ports (one 10 Gbps, two 5 Gbps), Ethernet, a 3.5 mm audio jack, and HDMI 2.1. Wireless options include either Intel's Wi-Fi 6E or Realtek's Wi-Fi 6 cards (no Wi-Fi 7 support). HP hasn't yet announced any pricing information, however, they say the Omen 16 Slim should be available this spring.

Today, at NVIDIA GTC, Lenovo unveiled new Lenovo Hybrid AI Advantage with NVIDIA solutions designed to accelerate AI adoption and boost business productivity by fast-tracking agentic AI that can reason, plan and take action to reach goals faster. The validated, full-stack AI solutions enable enterprises to quickly build and deploy AI agents for a broad range of high-demand use cases, increasing productivity, agility and trust while accelerating the next wave of AI reasoning for the new era of agentic AI.

New global IDC research commissioned by Lenovo reveals that ROI remains the greatest AI adoption barrier, despite a three-fold spend increase. AI agents are revolutionizing enterprise workflows and lowering barriers to ROI by supporting employees with complex problem-solving, coding, and multistep planning that drives speed, innovation and productivity. As CIOs and business leaders seek tangible return on AI investment, Lenovo is delivering hybrid AI solutions that unleash and customize agentic AI at every scale.

Supermicro, Inc., a Total IT Solution Provider for AI/ML, HPC, Cloud, Storage, and 5G/Edge, today announced support for the new NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs on a range of workload-optimized GPU servers and workstations. Specifically optimized for the NVIDIA Blackwell generation of PCIe GPUs, the broad range of Supermicro servers will enable more enterprises to leverage accelerated computing for LLM-inference and fine-tuning, agentic AI, visualization, graphics & rendering, and virtualization. Many Supermicro GPU-optimized systems are NVIDIA Certified, guaranteeing compatibility and support for NVIDIA AI Enterprise to simplify the process of developing and deploying production AI.

"Supermicro leads the industry with its broad portfolio of application optimized GPU servers that can be deployed in a wide range of enterprise environments with very short lead times," said Charles Liang, president and CEO of Supermicro. "Our support for the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPU adds yet another dimension of performance and flexibility for customers looking to deploy the latest in accelerated computing capabilities from the data center to the intelligent edge. Supermicro's broad range of PCIe GPU-optimized products also support NVIDIA H200 NVL in 2-way and 4-way NVIDIA NVLink configurations to maximize inference performance for today's state-of-the-art AI models, as well as accelerating HPC workloads."

PNY announced today it is adding the new NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition, RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max-Q Workstation Edition, RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell, RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell, and RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell graphics cards to its lineup of NVIDIA RTX PRO GPU offerings for professionals.

Built for professionals and the future of work, NVIDIA RTX PRO Desktop GPUs based on the revolutionary NVIDIA Blackwell architecture deliver exceptional performance for AI-enhanced creative, design, and engineering workflows. Featuring the latest generation Tensor Cores, RT Cores, and up to 96 GB of ultra-high-speed GDDR7 memory, they enable groundbreaking advancements in AI, ray tracing, and neural graphics technology. Supercharge workstations for the next era of AI-driven workflows with the ultimate tools for professionals.

Marking one year since the launch of the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA, Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) announces new AI PCs, infrastructure, software and services advancements to accelerate enterprise AI innovation at any scale. Successful AI deployments are vital for enterprises to remain competitive, but challenges like system integration and skill gaps can delay the value enterprises realize from AI. More than 75% of organizations want their infrastructure providers to deliver capabilities across all aspects of the AI adoption journey, driving customer demand for simplified AI deployments that can scale.

As the top provider of AI centric infrastructure, Dell Technologies - in collaboration with NVIDIA - provides a consistent experience across AI infrastructure, software and services, offering customers a one-stop shop to scale AI initiatives from deskside to large-scale data center deployments.

Giga Computing, a subsidiary of GIGABYTE and an industry leader in generative AI servers and advanced cooling technologies, today announced participation at NVIDIA GTC 2025 to bring to the market the best in GPU-based solutions for generative AI, media acceleration, and large language models (LLM). To this end, GIGABYTE booth #1409 at NVIDIA GTC showcases a rack-scale turnkey AI solution, GIGAPOD, that offers both air and liquid-cooling designs for the NVIDIA HGX B300 NVL16 system. Also, on display at the booth is a compute node from the newly announced NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 rack-scale solution. And for modularized compute architecture are two servers supporting the newly announced NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition.

Complete AI solution - GIGAPOD
With the depth of expertise in hardware and system design, Giga Computing has combined infrastructure hardware, platform software, and architecting service to deliver scalable units composed of GIGABYTE GPU servers with NVIDIA GPU baseboards, while running GIGABYTE POD Manager, a powerful software suite designed to enhance operational efficiency, streamline management, and optimize resource utilization. GIGAPOD's scalable unit is designed for either nine air-cooled racks or five liquid-cooled racks. Giga Computing offers two approaches for the same goal, one powerful GPU cluster using NVIDIA HGX Hopper and Blackwell GPU platforms at scale to meet demand for all AI data centers.

MSI, a leading global provider of high-performance server solutions, showcased its cutting-edge 4U and 2U AI platforms built on the NVIDIA MGX reference architecture at GTC 2025, held from March 18-21 at booth 909. Designed to meet the diverse demands of AI, HPC, and data-intensive applications, MSI's MGX-based AI servers deliver scalable performance and robust resilience. These platforms cater to the needs of enterprise and cloud data centers, leveraging modular, building-block features to optimize the strengths of AI workloads and drive next-level high-performance computing.

"AI adoption has become a critical focus for enterprise data centers, as organizations look to harness advanced AI capabilities to gain competitive advantages," said Danny Hsu, General Manager of Enterprise Platform Solutions at MSI. "MSI's AI servers are designed to meet these evolving needs, offering the scalability, flexibility, and resilience required to keep pace with rapidly growing AI workloads. By integrating the NVIDIA MGX reference architecture, we empower enterprises to build future-proof infrastructure that maximizes performance while minimizing complexity and downtime."

BOXX Technologies, the leading innovator of high-performance computers, rendering systems, and servers, announced that as a supplier of NVIDIA-Certified Systems, BOXX workstations will feature the new NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition and NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max-Q Workstation Edition GPUs. Designed for creative professionals, these NVIDIA Blackwell architecture GPUs combine breakthrough AI inference, ray tracing, and neural rendering technology with major performance and memory improvements to drive demanding creative, design, and engineering workflows. BOXX will be among the first computer hardware manufacturers offering the new GPUs inside multiple workstation form factors.

"From our desk side APEXX workstations to our FLEXX and RAXX data center platforms, BOXX is taking our record-setting performance to new heights with NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition GPUs," said BOXX CEO Kirk Schell. "Our systems equipped with these groundbreaking GPUs are purpose-built for creative professionals who demand the best, so whether its architects, engineers, and content creators, or data scientists and large scale enterprise deployments, BOXX accelerates mission critical work while maintaining unparalleled performance, reliability, and support."

More than 700 games and applications feature RTX technologies, and each week new games integrating NVIDIA DLSS, NVIDIA Reflex, and advanced ray-traced effects are released or announced, delivering the definitive PC experience for GeForce RTX players. With the addition of the latest DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation games, our newest performance multiplier is now available in over 100 games and apps, making it the most rapidly adopted NVIDIA game technology of all time.

Additionally, we can today reveal that Lost Soul Aside, Mecha BREAK, Phantom Blade Zero, Stellar Blade, Tides of Annihilation, and Wild Assault will all launch with DLSS Multi Frame Generation, and our suite of other DLSS technologies, giving GeForce RTX gamers the definitive PC experience in each. Furthermore, today we released an updated Zorah demo, built in Unreal Engine 5, that showcases the latest advancements in neural rendering powered by GeForce RTX 50 Series and AI.

NVIDIA today announced ahead of the Game Developers Conference (GDC) groundbreaking enhancements to NVIDIA RTX neural rendering technologies. NVIDIA has partnered with Microsoft to bring neural shading support to the Microsoft DirectX preview in April, giving developers access to AI Tensor Cores in NVIDIA GeForce RTX GPUs to accelerate neural networks from within a game's graphics pipeline. Neural shading represents a revolution in graphics programming, combining AI with traditional rendering to dramatically boost frame rates, enhance image quality and reduce system resource usage.

"Microsoft is adding cooperative vector support to DirectX and HLSL, starting with a preview this April," said Shawn Hargreaves, Direct3D development manager at Microsoft. "This will advance the future of graphics programming by enabling neural rendering across the gaming industry. Unlocking Tensor Cores on NVIDIA RTX will allow developers to fully leverage RTX Neural Shaders for richer, more immersive experiences on Windows."

NVIDIA has announced that the Half-Life 2 RTX Demo will be available on March 18th and include a two-hour gameplay demo with full ray tracing, remade assets, and animations. The demo is remastered with RTX Remix by Orbifold Studios and will be a free mod on Steam for all Half-Life 2 owners.

The demo will feature NVIDIA DLSS 4, NVIDIA RTX Neural Radiance Cache, RTX Skin, RTX Volumetrics, and other new NVIDIA technologies. The release of Half-Life 2 RTX Demo marks the official release of RTX Remix, which was released a year ago in beta. According to NVIDIA, over 30,000 modders have since used the platform to mod a bunch of classic titles, with over 1 million gamers playing those modded games like Portal with RTX and Portal: prelude RTX. As said, the new demo will go live on Steam on March 18th.

NVIDIA has prepared a "Blackwell" Titan equivalent—RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPU for professional visualization and local AI solutions. Based on the GB202 silicon, the RTX PRO 6000 is the closest solution to the full power of NVIDIA's prosumer-oriented Blackwell SKUs. With 24,064 CUDA cores on board, this configuration is just 512 CUDA cores shy from the complete GB202 24,576-core configuration. This is likely due to the yield defects, meaning that this is perhaps the highest CUDA core count model we will see based on GB202. Additionally, at 24,064 core RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell is carrying 2,340 more cores than the top-end consumer GeForce RTX 5090 with 21,760 CUDA cores. Based on the 600 W TGP, the new RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell should have lower clocks, given its bigger core count to maintain the TGP for its massive memory configuration. Remember, GDDR7 memory modules consume power, too.

With 96 GB of GDDR7 memory and ECC memory correction on board, it will primarily target professionals in 3D rendering, simulations, and local AI development. To cool the beastly configuration, NVIDIA opted for a double-flow-through cooler used on the RTX 5090, with an open-air design. Operating on a PCIe 5.0 x16 interface with four DisplayPort 2.1 connectors, the design remains double-slot in thickness. VideoCardz obtained pictures of it, which you can see below. Interestingly, the color accents of the new cooler are darker. We can expect to see more from NVIDIA and its new RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPU from the upcoming GTC 2025 on March 17.

More than 700 games and applications feature RTX technologies, and each week new games integrating NVIDIA DLSS, NVIDIA Reflex, and advanced ray-traced effects are released or announced, delivering the definitive PC experience for GeForce RTX players. Last week, DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation came to NARAKA: BLADEPOINT, and even more games launched with support for DLSS. This week, DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation will be available at launch in the new 5v5 shooter, FragPunk, while Star Wars Outlaws shows off DLSS 4 enhancements in a new RTX On trailer.

Additionally, Dragonkin: The Banished and Rise of the Ronin are launching with support for DLSS Frame Generation and DLSS Super Resolution. Vector Strike entered Early Access yesterday featuring DLSS frame Generation and DLSS Super Resolution. And Deadlock and Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced now boast DLSS and Reflex support on PC.

Colorful Technology Company Limited, a leading brand in gaming PC components, gaming laptops, and Hi-fi audio products, introduces the COLORFUL X15 XS - a budget-friendly yet powerful gaming laptop designed for gamers and creators seeking performance and value. Building from the success of the X15 XS series gaming laptops, the latest model features a cleaner and simpler design and new packaging.

Powered by up to a 12th Gen Intel Core i5-12500H processor and an NVIDIA RTX 3050 laptop GPU, the COLORFUL X15 XS delivers the speed and efficiency needed to tackle a wide range of tasks. Whether you're working on demanding projects, studying for exams, or diving into immersive gaming sessions, the X15 XS ensures smooth multitasking, responsive performance, and stunning graphics. With advanced cooling and a high-refresh-rate display, the X15 XS is built to keep up with your productivity and entertainment needs without compromise.

Generative AI is redefining computing, unlocking new ways to build, train and optimize AI models on PCs and workstations. From content creation and large and small language models to software development, AI-powered PCs and workstations are transforming workflows and enhancing productivity. At GTC 2025, running March 17-21 in the San Jose Convention Center, experts from across the AI ecosystem will share insights on deploying AI locally, optimizing models and harnessing cutting-edge hardware and software to enhance AI workloads—highlighting key advancements in RTX AI PCs and workstations.

Develop and Deploy on RTX
RTX GPUs are built with specialized AI hardware called Tensor Cores that provide the compute performance needed to run the latest and most demanding AI models. These high-performance GPUs can help build digital humans, chatbots, AI-generated podcasts and more. With more than 100 million GeForce RTX and NVIDIA RTX GPUs users, developers have a large audience to target when new AI apps and features are deployed. In the session "Build Digital Humans, Chatbots, and AI-Generated Podcasts for RTX PCs and Workstations," Annamalai Chockalingam, senior product manager at NVIDIA, will showcase the end-to-end suite of tools developers can use to streamline development and deploy incredibly fast AI-enabled applications.

EK, the premium liquid cooling gear manufacturer, is proud to introduce the EK-Quantum Vector³ FE RTX 5090 - Plexi, our high-performance water block designed exclusively for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition. The EK-Quantum Vector³ FE RTX 5090 is the first water block to support the NVIDIA RTX 5090 Founders Edition three-part PCB design, providing a high-performance, fully enclosed liquid-cooling solution for NVIDIA's most powerful gaming GPU yet. This stunning EK-Quantum Vector³ FE RTX 5090 water block is fully EK-Matrix7 compatible, featuring a signature CNC-machined backplate with a sleek, ribbed design, a custom acrylic top and backlit EK logo. Founders Edition never looked this good.

Unmatched Performance and Cooling Efficiency
The EK-Quantum Vector³ FE RTX 5090 water block delivers high-performance liquid cooling, premium aesthetics, and precision engineering for NVIDIA's flagship RTX 5090 Founders Edition. Inside, you'll find an expanded cooling system, improved pre-cut thermal pads, alongside a precision-engineered gasket system, ensuring optimal heat dissipation for the GPU core, VRAM, and power stages.

More than 700 games and applications feature RTX technologies, and each week new games integrating NVIDIA DLSS, NVIDIA Reflex, and advanced ray-traced effects are released or announced, delivering the definitive PC experience for GeForce RTX players. Star Wars Outlaws' latest update is out now, adding DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation, an upgraded DLSS Frame Generation model for improved performance and reduced VRAM usage, and the new DLSS transformer AI model for DLSS Super Resolution, DLSS Ray Reconstruction, and DLAA, further enhancing your PC experience.

Later today, Avowed launches with DLSS, Reflex, and ray tracing, and by using NVIDIA app's new DLSS 4 overrides, you can further enhance your experience in Avowed by adding DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation, and new and improved AI models that upgrade DLSS Super Resolution, DLAA, and DLSS Frame Generation. A new DLSS Frame Generation, Reflex, and ray tracing update for the popular Wuthering Waves launches today, too. And next week, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle introduces DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation and DLSS Ray Reconstruction, updates DLSS Super Resolution and DLAA to use our new transformer-based AI model, and adds fully ray-traced shadows from all light sources.

The NVIDIA RTX 5070 Ti gaming GPU is expected to be available starting February 20, although whether gamers are going to be able to purchase one anytime soon is a different story entirely. That said, a recent listing on an Austrian retailer's website has revealed the pricing details for the MSI RTX 5070 Ti Gaming Trio card - a cool €1169 (inclusive of 19% VAT), roughly equivalent to $1212. Compared to NVIDIA's official pricing for the RTX 5070 Ti in most parts of the EU, a 33% increase in price can be observed. Of course, the MSI GAMING TRIO is quite a high-end card, but the price delta is quite surprising regardless. Depending on supply, the prices may further inflate, if the events of the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 launch are repeated.

The RTX 5070 Ti is expected to boast 8690 CUDA cores paired with 16 GB of GDDR7 memory on a 256-bit bus. Recent leaks have hinted at very mediocre performance improvements, similar to what we witnessed with the RTX 5080. As of this writing, there seems to be a decent possibility that the RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT will beat the RTX 5070 family, not just in raster performance, but also in value. Of course, since NVIDIA is clearly going to fire first, gamers will not have much of a choice before RDNA 4 hits the scene. That said if the RTX 5070 series witnesses similarly atrocious availability at launch as its siblings, a lot of folks will have no option but to wait.

The NVIDIA RTX 50-series witnessed quite a contentious launch, to say the least. Hindered by abysmal availability, controversial generational improvement, and whacky marketing tactics by Team Green, it would be safe to say a lot of passionate gamers were left utterly disappointed. That said, while the desktop cards have been the talk of the town as of late, the RTX 50 Laptop counterparts are yet to make headlines. Occasional leaks do appear on the interwebs, the latest one of which seems to indicate the 3D Mark Time Spy performance for the RTX 5080 Laptop GPU. And the results are - well, debatable.

We do know that the RTX 5080 Laptop GPU will feature 7680 CUDA cores, a shockingly modest increase over its predecessor. Considering that we did not get a node shrink this time around, the architectural improvements appear to be rather minimal, going by the tests conducted so far. Of course, the biggest boost in performance will likely be afforded by GDDR7 memory, utilizing a 256-bit bus, compared its predecessor's GDDR6 memory on a 192-bit bus. In 3D Mark's Time Spy DX12 test, which is somewhat of an outdated benchmark, the RTX 5080 Laptop managed roughly around 21,900 points. The RTX 4080 Laptop, on an average, rakes in around 18,200 points, putting the RTX 5080 Laptop ahead by almost 19%. The RTX 4090 Laptop is also left behind, by around 5%.

A South Korea-based hardware enthusiast—Harukaze5719—has discovered a curious listing of ZOTAC's GeForce RTX 5090 SOLID OC model on a Chinese auction site (asking price: ~$4175 USD). This finding was shared with their audience, via a social media post—a screenshot was accompanied by harukaze5719's short and succinct message: "OMG..." Officially, NVIDIA and its board partners cater to the Chinese hardware market with a restricted variant of the flagship "Blackwell" GPU—GeForce RTX 5090D. Despite under-the-hood nerfing, this region-exclusive model still offers enviable performance (when pushed).

The "full fat" GeForce RTX 5090 GPU appears to be an even hotter commodity—with demand (at launch) exceeding far exceeding supply. ZOTAC's South Korean branch warned potential customers about difficult conditions almost two weeks ahead of Blackwell's market debut on January 30. Harukaze5719 has likely expressed semi-personal frustration over apparent South Korea market-destined ZOTAC stock turning up for sale in China. So-called "Chinese GPU shopping tourists" could have made the journey to a South Korean PC hardware store, with their sole objective being the acquisition of GeForce RTX 5090 graphics cards. Tom's Hardware has gathered various related tidbits from Japanese and Taiwanese news sources—where local TV coverage explored the events of last week's launch event.

The recently released DeepSeek-R1 model family has brought a new wave of excitement to the AI community, allowing enthusiasts and developers to run state-of-the-art reasoning models with problem-solving, math and code capabilities, all from the privacy of local PCs. With up to 3,352 trillion operations per second of AI horsepower, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs can run the DeepSeek family of distilled models faster than anything on the PC market.

A New Class of Models That Reason
Reasoning models are a new class of large language models (LLMs) that spend more time on "thinking" and "reflecting" to work through complex problems, while describing the steps required to solve a task. The fundamental principle is that any problem can be solved with deep thought, reasoning and time, just like how humans tackle problems. By spending more time—and thus compute—on a problem, the LLM can yield better results. This phenomenon is known as test-time scaling, where a model dynamically allocates compute resources during inference to reason through problems. Reasoning models can enhance user experiences on PCs by deeply understanding a user's needs, taking actions on their behalf and allowing them to provide feedback on the model's thought process—unlocking agentic workflows for solving complex, multi-step tasks such as analyzing market research, performing complicated math problems, debugging code and more.

Newegg Commerce, Inc., a global leader in e-commerce for technology products, experienced an overwhelming response to the highly anticipated launch of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs, with inventory selling out within minutes. Gaming enthusiasts, content creators, system integrators, and PC builders rushed to secure the first batch of the latest AI-powered graphics technology, driving demand to unprecedented levels and cementing the RTX 50 Series as one of the most sought-after GPU launches in history.

"The response to the NVIDIA RTX 50 Series has been extraordinary," said Jim Tseng, VP of Product Management at Newegg. "The overwhelming demand reaffirms the gaming and PC community's enthusiasm for the very best technology. For our customers who have not yet been able to secure a GPU, we're committed to working with NVIDIA and our AIB (Add-In Board) partners to ensure future restocks and continued availability." Tseng continued, "Getting the latest cards into our customers is our passion, and we're proud to also offer a GPU trade-in program that makes it more affordable for customers to upgrade to the latest generation of video cards."

A set of newly leaked benchmarks has revealed the performance capabilities of NVIDIA's upcoming RTX 5080 GPU. Scheduled to launch alongside the RTX 5090 on January 30, the GPU was spotted on Geekbench under OpenCL and Vulkan benchmark tests—and based on the performance, it might not make it among the best graphics cards. The tested device was an MSI-branded RTX 5080 labeled as model MS-7E62. This setup had AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor, which many consider one of the best CPUs for gaming. It also included an MSI MPG 850 Edge TI Wi-Fi motherboard and 32 GB of DDR5-6000 memory.

The benchmark results show that the RTX 5080 scored 261,836 points in Vulkan and 256,138 points in OpenCL tests. Compared to the RTX 4080, its previous version, the RTX 5080 has a 22% boost in Vulkan performance and a small 6.7% gain in OpenCL. Reddit user TruthPhoenixV found that on the Blender Open Data platform, the GPU got a median score of 9,063.77. This score is 9.4% higher than the RTX 4080 and 8.2% better than the RTX 4080 Super. Even with these improvements, the RTX 5080 might not outperform the current-gen top-tier RTX 4090. In the past, NVIDIA's 80-class GPUs have beaten the 90-class GPUs from the previous generation, but these early numbers suggest this trend might not continue for the RTX 5080.

The time draws near to Reign in Hell when DOOM: The Dark Ages releases May 15, 2025, on Game Pass, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5 and PC. Preorder your copy today! For PC players, check that your setup is battle-ready by consulting our PC Requirements below, including listings for Minimum, Recommended and even Ultra 4K settings.

A NEW GENERATION OF IDTECH
id Software's most ambitious title yet, DOOM: The Dark Ages pushes new standards in visual fidelity and performance with the power of idTech8. Taking full advantage of modern hardware on all platforms, idTech8 ushers in a new era of gameplay performance and visual fidelity featuring all-new dynamic interactive ray-traced lighting and shadows, higher-fidelity image quality, increased gore and destruction and so much more. With the largest environments ever in a DOOM game, DOOM: The Dark Ages delivers an epic experience full of worlds to explore, hordes of demons to destroy and an action story worthy of the Slayer's legend. Whether soaring through the air with his dragon or smashing giant Titan-sized demons using his Atlan mech, the Slayer is taking on his biggest battles yet - all beautifully rendered and running at a buttery-smooth 60 frames per second on all platforms.