WiCi has unveiled the WiCi One, an external graphics card enclosure that connects to laptops wirelessly over Wi-Fi 7 instead of using Thunderbolt or OCuLink cables. The base model includes an Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti 16GB GPU, an Intel Core 3 100U CPU, and 1TB of storage, with a more powerful RTX 5090-based version planned. Preorders for the base model start at $1,999, rising to $2,599 at full release, with shipping expected in the fourth quarter of this year.
engadget.com
· 2026-09-26
An RTX 5090 Founders Edition owner reported that Nvidia rejected an RMA request after 30 days, citing an unreadable serial number printed on the card's metal bracket. The user says the card wasn't tampered with, and several other Reddit users report similar warranty denials tied to the same faded serial number issue.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-09-16
An RTX 5090 Founders Edition owner reported that Nvidia rejected their RMA request after keeping the crashing GPU for over a month, citing an unreadable serial number on the card's metal bracket. The owner insists the card was never opened or tampered with, and other Reddit users say they've noticed similar fading on their own Founders Edition cards' printed serial numbers.
techspot.com
· 2026-09-16
Nvidia's RTX 5090 has vanished from first-party retail listings at Newegg and Amazon, leaving only third-party marketplace sellers offering the card at prices ranging from roughly $6,400 to $8,700, with some listings even higher. This marks a sharp jump from the $4,299 median price seen in June and the $5,199 low tracked in early September, with stock disappearing entirely within about two weeks. Micro Center remains the lone major retailer still selling the card near its typical price.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-09-14
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.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-09-14
Independent testers have built two unofficial fixes for DLSS 5's steep performance cost, which Nvidia's own benchmarks showed can nearly halve frame rates on RTX 50-series cards. One method, a ReShade add-on called Neural Upstream, reorders the pipeline so the neural pass runs on the smaller pre-upscaled image rather than the full output frame, cutting its processing load by roughly two-thirds of the pixel count. Early tests on an RTX 4080 in Assassin's Creed Shadows show the neural rendering overhead dropping from about 32 FPS to 13 FPS lost, a 61% improvement, with similar gains reported in other titles.
techspot.com
· 2026-09-08
At PAX West in Seattle, Nvidia is offering its Founder's Edition RTX 5090, RTX 5080, and RTX 5070 graphics cards at list price on-site, along with GeForce Trading Cards, while supplies last. GeForce Evangelist Jacob Freeman announced the in-person Verified Priority Access event on X, inviting attendees to find him for a chance at an MSRP card. This follows a similar giveaway at QuakeCon last month.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-09-05
Nvidia's RTX 5090, originally launched at $1,999, is now selling for around $5,090 even in non-special-edition versions like the Asus TUF Gaming OC. Prices have jumped 20% in the past month and 41% over six months, putting the card 145% above its original MSRP. Even pricier variants exist, including the Asus ROG Astral RTX 5090 Edition 20 listed at $5,740.
techspot.com
· 2026-09-01
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