Nvidia executive Jeff Fisher said at an RTX Spark launch event in Taipei that the RTX 5090 remains in production despite supply constraints, contradicting leaker claims that the GB202 chip would be redirected to RTX Pro Blackwell products. Despite the denial, Nvidia's own US marketplace no longer lists the RTX 5090, and retailers like Newegg and Amazon show most units priced above $9,300, with little stock in physical stores.
techspot.com
· 2026-10-19
Newegg has discounted the ABS Flux II Aqua pre-built gaming PC by $500, dropping its price from $2,299.99 to $1,799.99. The build pairs an Intel Core i7-14700F processor with an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 GPU, 32GB of DDR5-6000 RAM, and a 1TB Gen 4 NVMe SSD.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-19
Oderço, a Brazilian IT distributor, says two pallets of Zotac RTX 5090 GPUs worth roughly $470,000 (R$2.5 million) arrived at Guarulhos International Airport but then disappeared. The company posted on Instagram saying it has received no official response to its inquiries and that nothing like this has happened in its 38-year history.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-18
Best Buy currently has in stock an MSI Infinite ZS prebuilt gaming PC priced at $7,599, built around an Nvidia RTX 5090 graphics card. The remaining components—including a Ryzen 9 9950X3D CPU, 32GB RAM, an MSI motherboard, liquid cooler, 1300W PSU, case, and Windows 11 license—are estimated to be worth about $2,300 on their own, implying the GPU accounts for roughly $5,300 of the price.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-17
Reddit user DallasGrave created a custom power-conversion kit that bypasses Nvidia's 16-pin (12VHPWR/12V-2x6) connector on the RTX 5090, soldering a harness directly to the card's PCB power rails and routing power through four standard 8-pin PCIe connectors instead. The four 8-pin connectors together match the 16-pin connector's 600W capacity while spreading current across more, larger, and more widely spaced pins.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-17
Nvidia senior VP Jeff Fisher reportedly told Taiwanese outlets 4Gamers and SJTV that the RTX 5090 has not been discontinued, acknowledging constrained supply chain capacity but insisting the company is working to keep shipping the card. The comments follow rumors that production was halted to redirect manufacturing capacity toward AI accelerators, and come after outlets like Tom's Hardware got no official response from Nvidia. A check of retailers found RTX 5090s largely unavailable or marked up to $7,300-$8,500, often through third-party or overseas sellers.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-17
Tom's Hardware Premium published several subscriber-only stories this week, including a deep dive into Intel's EMIB and Foveros Direct 3D packaging roadmap aimed at building system-in-packages as small as 12 reticles. The outlet also interviewed modders who ported Nvidia's DLSS 5 and Multi Frame Generation features, officially limited to Blackwell GPUs, onto older graphics cards, and examined why Micro Center stores may offer better PC component deals than online retailers.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-17
Reports and rumors indicate Nvidia's RTX 5090 flagship GPU is being phased out, with no replacement expected until at least 2028. Retail prices have climbed from a $1,999 MSRP to over $7,500, and Micro Center is said to be ending its stock of the standalone card, leaving prebuilt PCs as one of the remaining purchase routes.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-16
Nvidia's RTX Spark chip is now shipping in laptops from multiple manufacturers, with prices starting at $2,599 for a 24GB Asus ProArt P14 at Best Buy. Configurations scale up to 128GB of unified memory, with models like the Asus ProArt P16 reaching nearly $7,000 and HP's OmniBook line topping out around $5,300. Microsoft's new Surface Laptop Ultra with 48GB of memory is also among the initial retail offerings.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-16
Microsoft has launched the Surface Laptop Ultra, a new flagship Windows laptop built around Nvidia's new RTX Spark N1X 'superchip,' aimed at handling on-device AI, gaming and content creation in one machine. At 4.4 pounds, it's lighter than the 16-inch MacBook Pro but is the thickest among the new wave of N1X-powered laptops, including HP's OmniBook Ultra.
wired.com
· 2026-10-16
Tom's Hardware reviewed Microsoft's new Surface Laptop Ultra, which uses Nvidia's RTX Spark mobile SoC instead of a Qualcomm chip, making it one of the first non-Qualcomm Windows on Arm laptops. The reviewer praises its design, display, and port selection, but notes the device is heavy, costly, and offers little extra benefit to users who don't run AI workloads.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-16
The Verge's staff spent a week testing Nvidia's new Arm-based RTX Spark N1X processor across five laptops, including Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra, Asus's ProArt P16, Lenovo's Yoga 9n and HP's OmniBook Ultra. All units share the same 20-core CPU with 6,144 CUDA cores, though a cheaper 18-core variant with fewer CUDA cores also exists, with prices ranging from $2,599.99 to $6,999.99. The chip combines RTX Blackwell graphics with large unified memory pools of up to 128GB, aimed at running local AI models.
theverge.com
· 2026-10-16
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