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Newegg is selling a CyberPowerPC GM70929 gaming desktop for $2,259.49, down from $2,549.99. The system pairs AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU with an AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT GPU, 32GB of DDR5 RAM, and a 2TB Gen4 NVMe SSD.
HP has released the EliteBoard G2a, a second-generation keyboard-shaped PC built around AMD's Ryzen AI Pro 400-series chips, up to 64GB of DDR5 memory, and up to 2TB of NVMe storage. It offers an optional 32Wh battery for untethered use, weighs 670 grams, and starts at over $3,000, nearly double the price of the original G1a model launched at CES 2026.
Techspot revisited its long-running investigation into Nvidia GPU driver overhead, finding that in CPU-limited gaming situations AMD's Radeon RX 9070 XT can outpace Nvidia's far more powerful RTX 5090. The outlet traces this back to earlier tests showing Nvidia drivers demand more CPU processing power than AMD's to translate game instructions into GPU commands, creating bottlenecks on weaker processors.
Leaker Kepler_L2 says AMD's RDNA 5 graphics card lineup will launch in the second half of 2027, with a possible unveiling at Computex 2027 in June. Unlike past generations, the mid-range AT2 chip may arrive first in 2027, while the flagship AT0 and lower-end AT3/AT4 chips could follow in 2028. The leaker also said upcoming 4GB GDDR7 memory chips likely won't be used in these consumer cards, being reserved instead for AI and enterprise products.
The Asus ATS Radeon RX 9070 GRE GPU is now available at Amazon for $529, a price below its original $549 MSRP. Over the past month, its price has fluctuated between $529.99 and $589.99, with the current deal representing a significant discount. The card features 12GB of GDDR6 memory, AMD’s RDNA 4 architecture, and offers solid performance for 1080p and 1440p gaming.
Minisforum has begun selling the MS-S1 MAX-P495, a compact workstation powered by AMD's Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495 chip, one of the first systems available with this processor. The US configuration includes 192GB of LPDDR5X-8533 unified memory, a 2TB SSD, dual 10GbE networking, and USB4 ports, priced at $7,399.
A gaming guide outlines several ways to improve frames per second without buying new components, including lowering in-game graphics settings like texture quality and shadows, disabling motion blur and V-sync, and capping frame rate via NVIDIA or AMD software. It also recommends closing recording tools, keeping GPU drivers updated, and switching Windows 11's power plan to Best Performance mode.
An open-source GitHub project called DLSS-NR-on-AMD is reimplementing Nvidia's DLSS 5 Neural Rendering runtime to work on AMD Radeon RX 9000 and RX 7000 series cards, currently supporting DirectX 12 titles that use FSR, including Cyberpunk 2077 and GTA V Enhanced. Early builds saw frame rates collapse from over 80 FPS to around 11-12 FPS on a Radeon RX 9070 XT, but successive alpha releases have delivered roughly 74% combined performance gains within 24 hours, and a new AMDNR launcher now automates installation.
A solo developer working on a Minecraft-style voxel game called Block Game (working title) implemented a custom software occlusion culling system to improve rendering performance, particularly on weak integrated GPUs like the Radeon Vega 8. The developer reports the system runs in roughly half a frame at 60 FPS, culling 50-60% of chunks above ground and up to 95% underground, pushing framerates above 400 in cave scenes.
German outlet PC Games Hardware tested Lisuan Tech's LX 7G100 four months after launch and multiple driver updates, finding its performance essentially unchanged. The Chinese GPU roughly matches AMD's nine-year-old Radeon RX 580, trails the seven-year-old GeForce RTX 2060 by up to 35%, and delivers only about a third of the performance of Nvidia's GeForce RTX 5060.
A price check across Australian and US retailers found the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB, originally around $750, now selling from roughly $1,050 in Australia and often out of stock, while AMD's Radeon RX 9070 XT is available from about $1,149 there. On Newegg in the US, the two cards are similarly matched, with the 5060 Ti starting near $780 and the 9070 XT actually slightly cheaper at around $740. Both cards ship with 16GB of VRAM, prompting a 52-game benchmark comparison between them.
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.