AMD's newly announced RX 9050 GPU exists in two very different versions sharing the same name: an 8GB retail card sold standalone in some markets, and a 4GB variant that can only be bought bundled inside prebuilt desktops. Testing found the 4GB model, discovered inside a $750 CyberPowerPC system from Best Buy, has half the memory bandwidth and significantly worse performance than the retail card most buyers would research online.
techspot.com
· 2026-09-22
Microsoft released an emergency cumulative update, KB5129195, to fix several problems caused by September's Patch Tuesday release, which had patched nearly 1,000 vulnerabilities but broke Remote Desktop Services, Linux VM support, and some USB audio devices. The fix restores RDP connections, repairs the Host Compute Service used by apps like Claude Cowork to run Linux virtual machines, and partially restores 8-channel and 3D audio modes. However, AMD Radeon GPU crashes and File Explorer failures reported after the same update remain unresolved.
techspot.com
· 2026-09-15
AMD's Gigabyte Gaming Radeon RX 9070 GRE, a 12GB RDNA 4 graphics card, has dropped to $499 at Newegg through a promotional email code, matching its lowest price ever recorded and undercutting its $569.99 list price by $70. The card uses a cut-down Navi 48 chip with 48 compute units and 220W power draw, delivering strong 1080p and solid 1440p gaming performance in prior benchmarks.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-09-15
A Reddit user reported months of black screens and system instability on their AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX before discovering burn marks on the card's 8-pin power connector after disassembling their PC. Notably, the connector was routed through a Thermal Grizzly WireView power monitor meant to prevent such damage, and while the monitor took the brunt of the melting, it kept the GPU itself from being harmed.
techspot.com
· 2026-09-15
Developers behind the ZLUDA project have released a reproducible stack combining ZLUDA v6-preview.69 with AMD's HIP SDK 6.4, allowing CUDA-targeted Windows applications, including LibTorch-based machine learning workloads, to run on AMD hardware. The setup has been validated specifically on the Radeon RX 9060 XT (gfx1200), where core CUDA libraries like cuBLAS and cuFFT passed checks and a PPO reinforcement learning network completed training over 65,536 timesteps.
github.com
· 2026-09-13
Linux developer Justin Schroeder shared a photo of an older Intel MacBook pointing its webcam at a mirror reflecting its own screen, letting an AI coding agent visually monitor its progress while tuning AMD Radeon GPU support for the Omarchy Linux distribution. Omarchy is built as an 'agent-first' OS with tools designed to let AI agents install, configure and debug the system autonomously.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-09-10
AMD's Radeon RX 9070 XT has become the best-selling graphics card on Amazon, splitting the platform's top 10 evenly with Nvidia's RTX 50-series cards. In Germany, retailer Mindfactory reports AMD capturing nearly 56% of GPU sales versus Nvidia's 40%, with the RX 9070 XT and RX 9060 leading the pack.
techspot.com
· 2026-09-08
Leaker Kepler_L2 claims internal AMD documents point to RDNA 5 GPUs clocking between 3.1 and 3.4GHz, up to 15% higher than the RX 9070 XT's 2.97GHz boost clock. Other leaks suggest the flagship Navi 5X die could pack 96 compute units, 12,288 cores, a 384-bit memory bus, and up to 32GB of GDDR7, with smaller dies scaling down in cores and memory.
techspot.com
· 2026-09-04
Gaming monitor buyers are advised to stick with 4K (3840x2160) rather than jump to 5K (5120x2880) displays, since 5K's extra pixel density mainly benefits photo and video professionals rather than gamers. Achieving smooth 4K gaming still requires powerful GPUs like Nvidia's RTX 4070 or AMD's RX 9070 XT, with top-tier cards such as the RTX 5080 or 5090 needed for ray-traced titles at native resolution with high frame rates. Upscaling tools like DLSS and FSR help lower-end systems approximate native 4K quality without the full performance cost.
engadget.com
· 2026-09-01
AMD's Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT share the same 16GB GDDR6 memory, 256-bit bus and 64MB Infinity Cache, but differ in core count and clock speed, with the XT offering 14% more cores and an 18% higher boost clock. Since launch, pricing between the two has fluctuated significantly, sometimes narrowing the gap enough that the cheaper non-XT model has become a more compelling buy.
techspot.com
· 2026-08-25
Amazon is currently selling the Asus Prime AMD Radeon RX 9070 OC Edition for $629.99, down 16% from its usual $750 price. The card runs on AMD's RDNA 4 architecture with 16GB of GDDR6 memory, 56 Compute Units, and a factory overclock reaching up to 2,610 MHz boost clock, delivering performance comparable to Nvidia's RTX 4070 Ti Super.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-08-23
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