Initial benchmarks shared on China's Weibo platform by INNO3D hinted that NVIDIA's upcoming GeForce RTX 5050 may not quite catch up to the GeForce RTX 4060 in raw performance. The leaked figures, which focused on a handful of 3DMark tests and a selection of game runs, showed the RTX 5050 lagging just a few percent behind its established last-gen mid-range sibling. While those early results did not cover a comprehensive range of titles, they suggested that the new card would fall slightly short of the RTX 4060's average frame rate and 1% low metrics when gaming at 1080p settings.

A more complete picture emerged from South Korea's Quasar Zone review of the Colorful iGame GeForce RTX 5050 Ultra OC White edition. In tests across fifteen popular 1080p games, the RTX 5050 delivered roughly 7% lower average frame rates and similar 1% low results compared to the RTX 4060. Even Intel's Arc B580 managed to edge it out by a small margin in those same trials. However, NVIDIA's Multi‑Frame Generation options dramatically change the story by reconstructing additional frames on the fly. When these technologies are enabled, the RTX 5050 not only leaves older-generation cards well behind but also overtakes the higher‑priced RTX 4060 Ti in several benchmarks. As we await more reviews to emerge, it will be interesting to see if the newest DLSS and MFG are sufficient for gamers to purchase the entry-level Blackwell GPU or opt for an older mid-range Ada Lovelace.

NVIDIA has quietly engineered a third variant of its flagship GPU in response to new US export regulations, aiming to maintain performance while avoiding restrictions. A few weeks ago, we got leaks about the GeForce RTX 5090DD, which was supposed to be a new version based on the modified RTX 5090D. The initially released GeForce RTX 5090D was designed to comply with the Department of Commerce's updated rules while delivering virtually identical results to its unrestricted counterpart in both gaming and synthetic benchmarks. Now, the newly named RTX 5090D v2 features the same 21,760 CUDA cores and a 575 W power draw, ensuring that the core Blackwell architecture performs as users would expect, albeit with a reduced 24 GB VRAM buffer.

NVIDIA plans to introduce an updated RTX 5090D v2 model in August. According to reliable industry sources, this refresh will feature 24 GB of GDDR7 memory on a 384-bit bus, down from the original 512-bit interface, while preserving overall thermal and computational characteristics. For most gamers, the reduced VRAM capacity is unlikely to be noticeable, as only a handful of titles require more than 24 GB of VRAM. Ultimately, the success of the v2 will depend on whether it reaches the market at a price point that aligns with the expectations of its flagship. Given that the target market is China, we have to wait for sales and performance figures first. According to a well-known leaker, kopite7kimi, they noted that there is some surprise, indicating that NVIDIA has made a significant change to comply with export regulations, so it could be a firmware update preventing these cards from running AI workloads.

More than 800 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, Mecha BREAK launches with support for DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation, while Diablo IV and Still Wakes the Deep are adding native support with new updates, further accelerating performance for GeForce RTX 50 Series gamers. And NTE Closed Beta begins July 3rd featuring DLSS 4.

Mecha BREAK Launches Today, Featuring DLSS 4 With Multi Frame Generation
Developed by Amazing Seasun Games, Mecha BREAK is a multiplayer mech third-person shooter game that allows players to choose from diverse mechs and battle colossal war machines on treacherous terrain. Get ready for the ultimate showdown in 3v3, 6v6, and PvPvE modes. Discover an array of assault, melee, sniper, reconnaissance, and support mechs, each with unique playstyles. Engage in immersive aerial and ground combat, employing strategic tactics for close and long-range encounters. Unleash devastating firepower, scorch foes with precision beams, and rain missiles upon the battlefield. Prepare for adrenaline-pumping battles, lightning-fast maneuvers, and explosive firepower. Experience the essence of speed, power, and thrilling controls.

Gainward, a trusted leader in high-performance graphics cards, proudly announces the launch of its NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 lineup. This release features the Ghost and Pegasus series with advanced cooling and exceptional durability. Powered by NVIDIA Blackwell, GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs bring game-changing capabilities to gamers and creators. Equipped with a massive level of AI horsepower, the RTX 50 Series enables new experiences and next-level graphics fidelity. Multiply performance with NVIDIA DLSS 4, generate images at unprecedented speed, and unleash creativity with NVIDIA Studio.

GeForce RTX 5050 Ghost
The Gainward GeForce RTX 5050 Ghost is built for efficiency and reliability, featuring a sleek black design with a 2-slot form factor, ensuring compatibility with small form factor builds. Its twin 95 mm fans provide effective cooling while maintaining low noise levels for optimal thermal performance. A protective backplate enhances durability and adds a premium touch, while a subtle RGB glow on the side shroud brings a refined aesthetic without being distracting. The Ghost strikes a balance between style, functionality, and value.

MSI proudly unveils its latest lineup of graphics cards powered by the newly launched NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 GPUs, featuring the GAMING, VENTUS, and SHADOW series. Engineered with cutting-edge graphics technology and robust thermal solutions, these new graphics cards are built to deliver consistent, reliable performance across a wide range of gaming and creative applications. Advanced cooling technologies ensure efficient, quiet operation—even under sustained workloads—making them a trusted choice for users who prioritize stability, efficiency, and long-term value.

Powered by NVIDIA Blackwell, GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs bring game-changing capabilities to gamers and creators. Equipped with a massive level of AI horsepower, the RTX 50 Series enables new experiences and next-level graphics fidelity. Multiply performance with NVIDIA DLSS 4, generate images at unprecedented speed, and unleash creativity with NVIDIA Studio. Additionally, users can harness NVIDIA NIM microservices, a suite of advanced AI models designed to help developers build AI assistants, agents, and workflows—optimized for NIM-ready systems.

ASUS has expanded its BTF GPU ecosystem with the launch of the ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 32 GB GDDR7 BTF OC Edition, marking the first Astral model to adopt the detachable Graphics Card High-Power (GC-HPWR) connector. Building on improvements showcased in version 2.5, this new variant is engineered to supply over 1,000 watts through the high-power slot alongside the traditional 12V-2x6 connection located behind the PCIe connector. The ROG Astral RTX 5090 BTF Edition inherits the core specifications of its non-BTF sibling, which we reviewed here, but distinguishes itself with enhanced power delivery and compatibility. ASUS's removable GC-HPWR adapter allows integration with both standard motherboards and upcoming BTF-ready boards, promising greater flexibility for system builders and the aesthetic experience of no cables connected to the GPU.

This model employs the same four-fan configuration, vapor chamber, and optimized fin spacing, while a phase-change GPU thermal pad ensures maximum contact with the GPU die. According to ASUS, the quad-fan layout can boost airflow and pressure by up to 20%. Additional features include real-time monitoring of temperatures and power draw on the 12V-2x6 connector, accessible via GPU Tweak III, which also provides fine-tuning controls such as voltage and frequency adjustments, as well as thermal mapping. Although pricing has yet to be confirmed, ASUS will reflect the card's feature set with a price increase. Availability is expected in the third quarter, alongside other BTF products, such as the white-edged TUF Gaming Radeon RX 9070 XT and various ROG motherboards.

Eurocom introduces the Nightsky RX517, a customizable and user-upgradeable 17.3-inch laptop built for professionals, creators, and power users who need a balance of screen size, flexibility, and long-term scalability. The Nightsky RX517 comes with large 17.3" internal display for these looking for larger size viewing area. At the core of the Nightsky RX517 is Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX processor with 24 cores / 24 threads and 36 MB cache, paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Blackwell GPU (4608 CUDA cores, 144 Tensor AI cores, and 8 GB GDDR7 memory). This configuration is ideal for productivity workloads, 2D/3D content handling, development, multi-display environments, and smooth day-to-day performance.

Designed to support up to four active displays with NVIDIA Surround View, the Nightsky RX517 empowers power users to expand their desktop environment for improved multitasking, creative workflows, and visual workspace management. The internal 17.3-inch FHD 144 Hz display delivers smooth visuals and large screen for creative and technical work. Following EUROCOM's user-friendly upgrade philosophy, the Nightsky RX517 offers user-accessible dual SODIMM slots supporting up to 128 GB of DDR5-5600 memory, and three physical M.2 NVMe slots enabling up to 24 TB of SSD storage in RAID 0/1/5 configurations. This allows users to upgrade storage and memory capabilities to meet user changing computing requirements without replacing the laptop.

NVIDIA's DLSS Transformer officially graduates from beta today and is rolling out in its full, stable form across supported games. Following its debut as part of the DLSS 4 update, which features multi-frame generation and significant improvements in image quality, the technology has proven its worth. By replacing traditional convolutional neural networks with Transformer models, NVIDIA has doubled the model's parameters, boosted compute throughput fourfold, and delivered a 30-50% uplift in ray-traced effects quality, according to internal benchmarks. Even more impressive, each AI-enhanced frame now processes in just 1 ms on an RTX 5090, compared with the 3.25 ms required by DLSS 3.

Under the hood, DLSS 4 can tap into Blackwell-exclusive hardware, from FP8 tensor cores to fused CUDA kernels, and leans on vertical layer fusion and memory optimizations to keep overhead in check even with models twice the size of their CNN predecessors. To fine-tune performance and eliminate glitches such as ghosting, flicker, or blurring, NVIDIA has quietly run this network through a dedicated supercomputer for the past six years, continuously iterating on its findings. The result is a real-time AI upscaling solution that pairs a higher-performance AI architecture with rigorously validated quality.

Alongside everyone else, Gigabyte Launched three graphics cards based on the GeForce RTX 5050 GPU today, with the GeForce RTX 5050 GAMING OC 8G topping the line-up, followed by the GeForce RTX 5050 WINDFORCE OC 8G and the GeForce RTX 5050 OC Low Profile 8G. The Gaming OC comes with a larger heatsink and three fans, as well as a gimmicky sliding side plate that reveals the "game on" slogan on the card. The Windforce OC gets to make do with a smaller heatsink and two fans, although both cards are equipped with Gigabyte's hawk fans, Both cards also sport 8 GB of 20 Gbps GDDR6 memory and a pair of DP 2.1b and HDMI 2.1b outputs, as well as a single 8-pin power connector.

The OC Low Profile on the other hand is quite a different beast, largely due to its low-profile design and although it sports the same memory as the larger cards, it only gets one DP 2.1b output, as the second DP output is of the older 1.4b flavour, which is most likely related to it not being mounted straight to the PCB, but there's also a pair of HDMI 2.1b ports on this card. The card obviously has a smaller heatsink, but Gigabyte has still kitted it out with a copper contact plate for the GPU and a copper heatpipe. The smaller fans are said to be lubed with a graphene nano lubricant that is meant to extend the fan life by 2.1 times. The card also sports an 8-pin power connector and Gigabyte supplies a low-profile bracket.

ASUS has confirmed that its GeForce RTX 5090 BTF Edition can draw nearly 1,900 W without any signs of overheating, thanks to a robust metal power connector that holds up under pressure. In a series of controlled stress tests led by Tony Yu, General Manager of ASUS China, the BTF v2.5 proprietary GC-HPWR connector remained well within safe temperature limits, outperforming the conventional plastic 16-pin 12VHPWR/12V-2x6 alternative. The latest Back-to-the-Future update introduces a detachable GC-HPWR adapter, giving users the flexibility to switch between ASUS's metal connector and the standard 16-pin plug. ASUS supplies a small extraction tool that makes it easy to swap connectors, overcoming the original design's limitation of a permanently attached GC-HPWR adapter and ensuring wider compatibility with existing motherboards, as well as non-BTF-supported boards.

In the first trial, the card drew approximately 670 W, roughly matching the RTX 5090's typical maximum, and the GC-HPWR connector stabilized between 30°C and 35°C over ten minutes. ASUS engineers rated the metal connector for up to 1,000 W continuous operation, and the results confirmed a comfortable safety margin for maximum load. Tony Yu even increased the draw to 1,300 W, yielding a peak connector temperature of 38°C. In a final extreme test, the load was set to 150 A, driving total consumption above 1,900 W. Even under these conditions, the metal connector held at about 41°C, while the power cables reached roughly 70°C, demonstrating the adapter's superior thermal performance. Yu's experiments also showed that the GC-HPWR and 16-pin connectors can share the power load. At a 200 A setting, each connector supplied around 1,200 W to 1,400 W from separate power lines. Although ASUS plans to ship retail RTX 5090 cards with a single connector, this test suggests a possible path for future ultra-high-power GPUs designed for extreme overclockers.

Instructions per clock is a metric used to define and compare CPU architecture performance usually. However, enthusiast colleagues at ComputerBase had an idea to test the IPC improvement in GPUs, comparing it across current and past generations. NVIDIA's Blackwell-based GeForce RTX 50 series faces off against the Ada Lovelace-based RTX 40 generation, while AMD's RDNA 4-powered Radeon RX 9000 lineup challenges the RDNA 3-based RX 7000 series. For NVIDIA, the test used RTX 5070 Ti and 4070 Ti SUPER, aligning ALU counts and clock speeds and treating memory bandwidth differences as negligible. For AMD, the test matched the RX 9060 XT to the RX 7600 XT, both featuring identical ALUs and GDDR6 memory. By closely matching shader counts and normalizing for clock variations, ComputerBase isolates IPC improvements from other hardware enhancements. In rasterized rendering tests across 19 popular titles, NVIDIA's Blackwell architecture delivered an average IPC advantage of just 1% over the older Ada Lovelace.

This difference could easily be attributed to normal benchmark variance. Ray tracing and path tracing benchmarks showed no significant IPC uplift, leaving the latest generation essentially on par with its predecessor when normalized for clock and unit count. AMD's RDNA 4, by contrast, exhibited a substantial IPC leap. Rasterized performance improved by around 20% compared to RDNA 3, while ray-traced workloads enjoyed a roughly 31% gain. Path tracing results were even more extreme, with RDNA 4 delivering nearly twice the FPS, a 100% increase over its predecessor. These findings suggest that NVIDIA's performance improvements primarily stem from higher clock speeds, increased execution unit counts, and enhanced features. AMD's RDNA 4 represents a significant architectural advance, marking its most notable IPC gain since the original RDNA launch.

ASUS is proud to announce that the ProArt P16 (H7606), updated with the latest NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 Series graphics and paired with the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 processor (featuring up to 50 TOPS with the AMD XDNA NPU), is now available for purchase at the ASUS Store and Best Buy (H7606WP-PB99T / H7606WP-P16.R95070).

These top-of-the-line components are housed in a premium, compact 16-inch Nano Black chassis. At just 0.59" thin and weighing 4.08lb, ProArt P16 is the ultimate powerhouse for on-the-go creativity, gaming, productivity, and more. It is also a Copilot+ PC and features the ASUS-exclusive StoryCube and MuseTree apps to streamline creativity and accelerate ideas - made possible by the power of fully local AI. StoryCube is a smart, convenient, and powerful digital asset-management tool with AI assistance for scene categorization and clip generation, allowing users to effortlessly manage and export the contents of their file library. MuseTree transforms inspiration into imagery swiftly, allowing users to generate more creativity through simple graphical interactions, while intelligently storing and managing their ideas.

When we heard the news that NVIDIA will be halting shipments to Chinese customers for its GeForce RTX 5090D GPU in Q2, there were some speculations that the company is preparing to make a comeback. Leaving out the Chinese market is a tough decision from a business standpoint, but NVIDIA complies with export regulations imposed by the US administration under Donald Trump. However, the company now plans to keep its presence in China with the release of the export-abiding GeForce "RTX 5090DD" GPU. Carrying a GB202-240 die, it will be a cut-down version with reportedly only 14,080 CUDA cores present, paired with 24 GB of GDDR7 memory.

Chinese gamers will notice a significant difference, but so will anyone trying to acquire these GPUs for non-gaming purposes. As the US administration has banned shipments of high-end chips to China to stop them from training military-grade AI, gaming GPUs have been a target of AI firms. Now, a modified GeForce RTX 5090 DD, which not only cuts with raw compute but also firmware, should be sufficient for gaming. Carrying a PG145 SKU 40 board, the new RTX 5090DD GPU will also feature a modified 384-bit bus for its 24 GB of memory, down from the original RTX 5090D's 512-bit bus.

Update 09:45 UTC: According to one of the most accurate NVIDIA leakers, kopite7kimi, the core count for this GPU is supposed to be 21,760 CUDA cores, with 575 W TDP. The leaker did note that there is some surprise, so NVIDIA has definitely changed something big under the hood to comply with export regulations.

ASUS has recently held a charity auction with special edition ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 Dhahab Edition graphics card signed by NVIDIA's CEO, Jensen Huang. ASUS managed to raise $24,200, which will go to the TZU CHI USA Foundation, a volunteer-based non-governmental organization providing charitable assistance, medical aid, disaster relief, and educational services, and environmental protection programs to those in need.

The auction period lasted from June 4 to June 13, and showing how tight the race was, the three highest bidders were just $10 apart. As the ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 Dhahab OC Edition is quite a rare graphics card and sold exclusively in the Middle East, the one signed by Jensen Huang is quite a catch. Hopefully, it won't end up on eBay.

Generative AI has reshaped how people create, imagine and interact with digital content. As AI models continue to grow in capability and complexity, they require more VRAM, or video random access memory. The base Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large model, for example, uses over 18 GB of VRAM - limiting the number of systems that can run it well. By applying quantization to the model, noncritical layers can be removed or run with lower precision. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 Series and the Ada Lovelace generation of NVIDIA RTX PRO GPUs support FP8 quantization to help run these quantized models, and the latest-generation NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs also add support for FP4.

NVIDIA collaborated with Stability AI to quantize its latest model, Stable Diffusion (SD) 3.5 Large, to FP8 - reducing VRAM consumption by 40%. Further optimizations to SD3.5 Large and Medium with the NVIDIA TensorRT software development kit (SDK) double performance. In addition, TensorRT has been reimagined for RTX AI PCs, combining its industry-leading performance with just-in-time (JIT), on-device engine building and an 8x smaller package size for seamless AI deployment to more than 100 million RTX AI PCs. TensorRT for RTX is now available as a standalone SDK for developers.

NVIDIA today announced it is working with European nations, and technology and industry leaders, to build NVIDIA Blackwell AI infrastructure that will strengthen digital sovereignty, support economic growth and position the continent as a leader in the AI industrial revolution. France, Italy, Spain and the U.K. are among the nations building domestic AI infrastructure with an ecosystem of technology and cloud providers, including Domyn, Mistral AI, Nebius and Nscale, and telecommunications providers, including Orange, Swisscom, Telefónica and Telenor.

These deployments will deliver more than 3,000 exaflops of NVIDIA Blackwell compute resources for sovereign AI, enabling European enterprises, startups and public sector organizations to securely develop, train and deploy agentic and physical AI applications. NVIDIA is establishing and expanding AI technology centers in Germany, Sweden, Italy, Spain, the U.K. and Finland. These centers build on NVIDIA's history of collaborating with academic institutions and industry through the NVIDIA AI Technology Center program and NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute to develop the AI workforce and scientific discovery throughout the regions.

PEGATRON, a globally recognized Design, Manufacturing, and Service (DMS) provider, is showcasing its latest AI server solutions at GTC Paris 2025. Built on NVIDIA Blackwell architecture, PEGATRON's cutting-edge systems are tailored for AI training, reasoning, and enterprise-scale deployment.

NVIDIA GB300 NVL72
At the forefront is the RA4802-72N2, built on the NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 rack system, featuring 72 NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs and 36 NVIDIA Grace CPUs. Designed for AI factories, it boosts output by up to 50X. PEGATRON's in-house developed Coolant Distribution Unit (CDU) delivers 310 kW of cooling capacity with redundant hot-swappable pumps, ensuring performance and reliability for mission-critical workloads.

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. DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation's adoption continues at rapid pace, and is the fastest-adopted NVIDIA gaming technology in our history.

This week, we can reveal another 8 games equipped with the frame rate multiplying technology, including Dragonkin: The Banished, Dune: Awakening, Marvel's Spider-Man 2, Mecha BREAK, MindsEye, REMATCH, and Stellar Blade. And Indiana Jones and the Great Circle: The Order of Giants DLC is launching September 4th, featuring full ray tracing and DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation and DLSS Ray Reconstruction. Each title also features DLSS Frame Generation, boosting frame rates for GeForce RTX 40 Series gamers, and DLSS Super Resolution, accelerating performance on every GeForce RTX GPU.

MSI, a global leader in high-performance server solutions, is showcasing its enterprise-grade, high-performance server platforms at ISC 2025, taking place June 10-12 at booth #E12. Built on standardized and modular architectures, MSI's AI servers are designed to power next-generation AI and accelerated computing workloads, enabling enterprises to rapidly advance their AI innovations.

"As AI workloads continue to grow and evolve toward inference-driven applications, we're seeing a significant shift in how enterprises approach AI deployment," said Danny Hsu, General Manager of Enterprise Platform Solutions at MSI. "With modular and standards-based architectures, enterprise data centers can now adopt AI technologies more quickly and cost-effectively than ever before. This marks a new era where AI is not only powerful but also increasingly accessible to businesses of all sizes.

ASUS today joined GTC Paris at VivaTech 2025 as a Gold Sponsor, highlighting its latest portfolio of AI infrastructure solutions and reinforcing its commitment to advancing the AI Factory vision with a full range of NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra solutions, delivering breakthrough performance from large-scale datacenter to personal desktop.

ASUS is also excited to announce a transformative partnership milestone in its partnership with Nebius. Together, the two companies are enabling a new era of AI innovation built on NVIDIA's advanced platforms. Building on the success of the NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 platform deployment, ASUS and Nebius are now moving forward with strategic collaborations featuring the next-generation NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 platform. This ongoing initiative underscores ASUS's role as a key enabler in AI infrastructure, committed to delivering scalable, high-performance solutions that help enterprises accelerate AI adoption and innovation.

Within the discrete graphics card sector, NVIDIA achieved a remarkable 92% share of the add-in board (AIB) GPU market in the first quarter of 2025, according to data released by Jon Peddie Research (JPR). This represents an 8.5% increase compared to NVIDIA's previous position. By contrast, AMD's share contracted to just 8%, down 7.3 points, while Intel's presence effectively disappeared, falling to 0% after losing 1.2 points. JPR reported that AIB shipments reached 9.2 million units during Q1 2025 despite desktop CPU shipments declining to 17.8 million units. The firm projects that the AIB market will face a compound annual decline of 10.3% from 2024 to 2028, although the installed base of discrete GPUs is expected to grow to 130 million units by the end of the forecast period. By 2028, an estimated 86% of desktop PCs are expected to feature a dedicated graphics card.

NVIDIA's success this quarter can be attributed to its launch of the RTX 50 series GPUs. In contrast, AMD's RDNA 4 GPUs were released significantly later in Q1. Additionally, Intel's Battlemage Arc GPUs, which were launched in Q4 2024, have struggled to gain traction, likely due to limited availability and low demand in the mainstream market. The broader PC GPU market, which includes integrated solutions, contracted by 12% from the previous quarter, with a total of 68.8 million units shipped. Desktop graphics unit sales declined by 16%, while notebook GPUs decreased by 10%. Overall, NVIDIA's total GPU share rose by 3.6 points, AMD's dipped by 1.6 points, and Intel's declined by 2.1 points. Meanwhile, data center GPUs bucked the overall downward trend, rising by 9.6% as enterprises continue to invest in artificial intelligence applications. On the CPU side, notebook processors accounted for 71% of shipments, with desktop CPUs comprising the remaining 29%.

EUROCOM launches the Nightsky RX515 - a remarkable fusion of power, portability, and precision, designed to cater demanding professionals, students creators and gamers. EUROCOM Nightsky RX515 is powered by NVIDIA latest Blackwell RTX 5060 architecture, Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX processor and supports up to 4 active displays, 128 GB of DDR5 memory and up to 24 TB of SSD RAID 0/1/5 NVMe drives.

EUROCOM Nightsky RX515 is a 15.6-inch customizable laptop engineered for users who desire maximum flexibility and connectivity in a lightweight, travel-ready form factor. Whether user is a student, professional, gamer, home user or creator on the move, the Nightsky RX515 offers the freedom to do more wherever the work or pleasure takes user to.

GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co. Ltd, a leading manufacturer of premium gaming hardware, today launched the AORUS GeForce RTX 5090 STEALTH ICE 32G graphics card, designed exclusively for the GIGABYTE Project STEALTH series. This new graphics card inherits the minimalist philosophy of Project STEALTH by adopting a hidden power connector design, allowing seamless cable routing and a cleaner build layout. Tailored for enthusiasts who prioritize aesthetic refinement and efficient assembly, the card offers both cutting-edge performance and a streamlined look that elevates any gaming setup.

Hide the Cables, Power in Stealth
Project STEALTH redefines the PC building experience by relocating all connectors to the rear of the components. This thoughtful design streamlines cable management, enabling quicker installation and a cleaner, more organized build.

Microsoft has quietly rolled out two updates to its DirectX Agility SDK, and developers are already finding reasons to celebrate. The 1.717-preview release brings Shader Execution Reordering (SER) and Cooperative Vectors to the table, while the 1.616-retail update introduces Opacity Micromaps (OMM) and D3D12 Tiled Resource Tier 4 support. Together, they promise smoother and more efficient ray tracing, as well as improved resource handling. In 1.717-preview, the arrival of Cooperative Vectors means that vector and matrix operations, essential for AI-driven effects, now enjoy dedicated hardware acceleration. Instead of performing complex calculations on the CPU, developers can offload these tasks to the GPU, potentially unlocking richer neural rendering techniques in real time. Additionally, SER provides ray tracing pipelines with a helpful feature: it reorganizes the order in which shader threads execute, reducing wasted cycles caused by thread divergence.

Early internal tests show up to a 2× performance boost in path-traced scenes when SER is enabled. The preview also updates Direct3D's video encoder with a HEVC Reference List extension for longer-term reference frames, a two-pass low-resolution first encode, and built-in PSNR metrics so creators can see exactly how crisp their output really is. The 1.616-retail SDK centers on Opacity Micromaps, a feature designed to handle alpha-tested geometry, such as foliage or chain-link fences, without firing off expensive AnyHit shader calls. With OMM, supported GPUs intelligently skip unnecessary work, and Microsoft's numbers suggest a speedup of as much as 2.3x in path-traced scenes. For example, one NVIDIA demo increased from approximately 55 FPS to around 90 FPS simply by enabling OMM. Today, only NVIDIA's RTX cards have driver-level support for these micromaps, but AMD and Intel are preparing their own updates for the coming months. That same 1.616-retail release also unlocks D3D12 Tiled Resource Tier 4, finally lifting the restriction on packed mipmaps in texture arrays. This means finer-grained texture streaming, less wasted memory, and more creative freedom in writing shader code. NVIDIA has confirmed its support for this tier, Intel's drivers are already shipping, and AMD is aiming to release compatible drivers by early June 2025.

EUROCOM launches the RAPTOR X16 customized laptop - a lightweight, user-upgradeable RTX 5070Ti powerhouse for Gamers, Creators, and Power Users. Featuring the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070Ti, this 16-inch Raptor X16 powerhouse under 5lbs redefines mobile gaming and performance computing on the go. EUROCOM, a leader in high-performance portable computing, announces the RAPTOR X16, a versatile 16-inch system engineered for those who demand exceptional GPU performance without being tethered to a desktop. Built for gamers, students in STEM fields, power users, and creative professionals, the RAPTOR X16 combines high-powered hardware, extensive configuration/upgrade options, and a robust cooling system to handle demanding applications and AAA gaming - all in a lightweight high quality Aluminium Magnesium Alloy body frame.

EUROCOM Raptor X16 is powered by Intel Core Ultra 9 Processor 275HX 24C/24T Processor with 36M cache and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070Ti 12 GB DDR7 with NVIDIA Blackwell architecture and 184 Tensor AI cores. It supports up to 24 TB of NVMe SSD storage in RAID 0/1/5 and two Thunderbolt 4 ports allowing up to 3 external monitors connected directly to dGPU.