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AMD has submitted patches to its open-source Linux kernel driver adding GDDR7 memory identification along with new IP blocks including IH 8.0 and NBIF 7.10, according to Phoronix. Current Radeon RX 9000-series cards use GDDR6, making this the clearest driver-level sign yet of preparation for a next-generation GPU architecture, widely expected to be RDNA 5.
Nvidia has introduced the RTX Pro 5500 Blackwell Workstation Edition, a professional graphics card built on the same GB202 die as the GeForce RTX 5090 and offering similar CUDA core counts and performance. The key difference is memory: the RTX Pro 5500 carries 84GB of GDDR7, 2.6 times more than the RTX 5090, positioning it between the existing RTX Pro 5000 and RTX Pro 6000 in Nvidia's professional lineup.
HP is discounting its HyperX Omen Max 16 gaming laptop by $1,000, bringing the price down to $3,699.99. The machine pairs a mobile Nvidia RTX 5090 GPU with a 16-inch 1600p OLED display running at 240Hz, an Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus processor, 32GB of DDR5 RAM, and a 2TB SSD.
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.