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Nvidia’s latest driver enables DLSS 4 override options for more games.
Aside from today’s AI announcements, Nvidia also updated the Game Ready GPU driver to version 572.83 and says it has significantly expanded the list of games where PC gamers can switch on DLSS 4 features like Multi Frame Generation, AI model upgrades, or additional performance modes.
Over 100 games and apps now support DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation, and it says overrides for 62 titles have been added or updated since the last driver release. Check here for the full list.
Twenty years later, Half-Life 2 is a top tech demo again.
On March 18th, Nvidia will release a two-hour demo for Half-Life 2 owners, showing what its RTX 50 cards can do: full ray tracing, subsurface scattering for translucent skin, volumetric light through fog and smoke, physically-based materials, and Nvidia’s new neural shaders — which are also coming to DirectX for other developers in April.
Half-Life 2 RTX Remix isn’t for weak rigs. Even an RTX 5090 / Ryzen 9800X3D system might get under 30fps at 4K before applying DLSS 4. With it, Nvidia suggests an RTX 5070 might be enough for a 1440p tour.
Nvidia denies reports that its RTX 50 laptop GPUs are missing ROPs, too
Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge
Remember when Nvidia categorically told us that “no other Nvidia GPUs” had shipped, or would be shipping, with missing render units? Well, you can imagine our surprise to read that the company’s RTX 50-series laptop GPUs might be affected as well, with Heise Online and Hardwareluxx reporting that Nvidia has asked manufacturers to check their laptops for fewer ROPs than promised.
But Nvidia tells The Verge there isn’t actually a problem with those notebook GPUs. “All partners continue to run checks as part of our standard testing procedure,” Nvidia GeForce global PR director Ben Berraondo tells us, adding that Nvidia will reach out to both German publications to discuss.
Nvidia issues a new hotfix for black screens.
Nvidia has a black screen driver fix on the way.
Some owners of Nvidia’s RTX graphics cards have noticed black screen issues with the latest driver update recently. VideoCardz spotted that Nvidia has now confirmed that a driver update will be available later this week that includes a fix for the black screen issues. Some RTX 5090 cards are also receiving a BIOS update that will address the black screen problems.
Nvidia admits some early RTX 5080 cards are missing ROPs, too
Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge
When Nvidia originally confirmed that some of its new RTX 50-series graphics cards had a “rare” manufacturing issue that left them missing some promised render units and a slight amount of performance as a result, it only named three affected cards: the RTX 5090, RTX 5090D, and RTX 5070 Ti. But now, Nvidia has confirmed to us that RTX 5080 production was affected by the same issue as well.
“Upon further investigation, we’ve identified that an early production build of GeForce RTX 5080 GPUs were also affected by the same issue. Affected consumers can contact the board manufacturer for a replacement,” Nvidia GeForce global PR director Ben Berraondo tells The Verge.
RTX 5080s are missing ROPs, too.
A Reddit user posted a screenshot showing that their RTX 5080 has fewer ROPs than it should.
Nvidia didn’t include the RTX 5080 when it confirmed to The Verge that a manufacturing defect is leaving “less than 0.5%” of 5090, 5090D, and 5070 Ti chips short on ROPs. The company didn’t immediately respond to our request for comment on this new report.
Nvidia confirms ‘rare’ RTX 5090 and 5070 Ti manufacturing issue
Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge
It’s true: Nvidia has just confirmed it shipped some RTX 5090, RTX 5090D, and even some RTX 5070 Ti graphics chips that were missing render units, as TechPowerUp originally reported — and that you’ll be able to get a replacement if your card was affected.
Nvidia GeForce global PR director Ben Berraondo tells The Verge:
Do us a favor and check your Nvidia RTX 5090 for missing render units?
It looks like Nvidia may have yet another issue with its flagship RTX 5090 card — a noted leaker claims it shipped out partially defective chips with slightly worse performance. Maybe check your card with GPU-Z and see if it’s showing the proper number of 176 ROPs?
Nvidia releases new drivers along with the RTX 5070 Ti launch and fixes a weird bug.
Even if you have older hardware than the likely-hard-to-find 5070 Ti, the release notes (pdf) for 572.47 say it also addresses a bug I’d experienced recently, where it could crash your system instead of waking up the monitor from an extended sleep.
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Nvidia is launching ‘priority access’ to help fans buy RTX 5080 and 5090 FE GPUs
Nvidia has yet to explain why it launched its GeForce RTX 5090 and 5080 GPUs with barely any inventory, some major launch driver issues, and the occasional melting power connector, but it has apparently reconsidered its stance when it comes to scalpers. The company’s just announced a way for Nvidia fans to sign up for “Verified Priority Access” to buy the elusive two-slot SFF-friendly RTX 5090 and 5080 Founders Edition graphics cards.
Like a similar Verified Priority Access program for the RTX 4090, the new program is invite-only, but this time you’ll apply for access by filling out this form rather than being pre-selected. The site will check that you’ve already had an Nvidia account (accounts created after January 30th need not apply) and ask you whether you’d prefer a 5090 or a 5080. Then, it’ll apparently use an algorithm to figure out if you’re a real gamer (analyzing your Nvidia app / GeForce Experience use) before offering a card. Limit one per person.
Hope you weren’t planning to play PhysX games on Nvidia’s new 50-series GPUs
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Remember PhysX, the GPU-accelerated technology that let games realistically simulate destructible cloth, shattering glass, moving liquids, smoke, fog, and other particle effects? It only ever got deployed in a few dozen games — but with 32-bit PhysX turned on, those games reportedly now run faster on Nvidia’s last-gen cards than they do on a new RTX 5090, 5080, 5070 Ti or beyond.
That’s because Nvidia has quietly removed support for PhysX in its latest graphics chips, the company confirmed this week, after buyers noticed PhysX games like Borderlands 2 were mysteriously taxing their CPU instead of their GPU and either chugging or failing to work. Nvidia points to a support page from January where it did say that the RTX 50 series would not support 32-bit CUDA applications, but that page doesn’t explicitly mention PhysX, and the company’s other PhysX support pages are several years old.
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti review: a cheaper RTX 4080
Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge
Nvidia’s new RTX 5070 Ti graphics card is the most intriguing entry in the 50-series lineup so far, promising to outperform last-gen cards that were even more expensive. At $749, it comfortably beats AMD’s $899 RX 7900 XT, trades blows with the $999 RX 7900 XTX, and is closer than I was expecting to Nvidia’s own $999 RTX 5080. It’s a capable card for a relatively good price, and that makes the RTX 5070 Ti an ideal choice if you’re tempted to move to 4K gaming or want a card that can deliver high frame rates for 1440p.
But like the rest of the 50-series cards, the RTX 5070 Ti is not as much of an upgrade as we’ve come to expect from Nvidia. The card is around 14 percent faster at 4K than the last-generation RTX 4070 Ti and 22 percent faster at 1440p. It’s nearly as fast as the RTX 4080 Super, which launched at $999, and it’s more than 80 percent faster at 4K than the two-generations-old RTX 3070 Ti. Those are decent numbers, but it’s mostly because the 40 series was such a big leap.
Nvidia delays the RTX 5070 till after AMD’s reveal
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As always, the most important Nvidia graphics card is the one you can actually buy, and Nvidia’s talked a big game for its RTX 5070, making the dubious but nuanced claim it can deliver RTX 4090 performance for just $549. On February 28th, AMD will get its chance to intercept with the Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT, in a streaming event it just announced today. But Nvidia has now made its own wiggle room, delaying the launch of the RTX 5070 from February to March 5th, its product page reveals today.
Nvidia will ship its $749 RTX 5070 Ti ahead of AMD’s event, though, on February 20th, a week from today.
Nvidia RTX 50-series laptop preorders start February 25th.
Nvidia announced in a post on X that laptops running RTX 50-series GPUs will go up for preorder on February 25th. It’s likely that laptop manufacturers will announce shipping dates and further details beyond this small tease soon.
Hopefully laptops running the new mobile GPUs won’t be as scarce as the recently launched RTX 5090 and 5080 desktop cards.
Nvidia’s RTX 5090 power connectors are melting
The power connector on Nvidia’s RTX 50-series GPUs.
Ah shit, here we go again. Two owners of Nvidia’s new RTX 5090 Founders Edition GPUs have reported melted power connectors and damage to their PSUs. The images look identical to reports of RTX 4090 power cables burning or melting from two years ago. Nvidia blamed the issue on people not properly plugging the 12VHPWR power connection in fully and the PCI standards body blamed Nvidia.
A Reddit poster upgraded from an RTX 4090 to an RTX 5090 and noticed “a burning smell playing Battlefield 5,” before turning off their PC and finding the damage. The images show burnt plastic at both the PSU end of the power connector and the part that connects directly to the GPU. The cable is one from MODDIY, a popular manufacturer of custom cables, and the poster claims it was “securely fastened and clicked on both sides (GPU and PSU).”
I plugged an Nvidia RTX 5090 into a gaming handheld
Two weeks ago, I showed you how the world’s fastest graphics card works in a small form factor PC. To my surprise, Nvidia’s RTX 5090 Founders Edition delivered the vast majority of its performance even in a 12.7-liter desktop with a five-year-old CPU.
It made me wonder: what if I plugged this card into a handheld gaming PC instead? So I did, and let me tell you: it’s a wonder to behold. It’s enough to make me believe in a rich future where handhelds get more powerful when you dock them at home.
Maybe Nvidia should have waited to ‘launch’ RTX 5090 and 5080?
Nvidia says its new GPUs are the fastest for DeepSeek AI, which kind of misses the point
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge
Nvidia is touting the performance of DeepSeek’s open source AI models on its just-launched RTX 50-series GPUs, claiming that they can “run the DeepSeek family of distilled models faster than anything on the PC market.” But this announcement from Nvidia might be somewhat missing the point.
This week, Nvidia’s market cap suffered the single biggest one-day market cap loss for a US company ever, a loss widely attributed to DeepSeek. DeepSeek said that its new R1 reasoning model didn’t require powerful Nvidia hardware to achieve comparable performance to OpenAI’s o1 model, letting the Chinese company train it at a significantly lower cost. What DeepSeek accomplished with R1 appears to show that Nvidia’s best chips may not be strictly needed to make strides in AI, which could affect the company’s fortunes in the future.
Nvidia’s RTX 5090 is out of stock because it was barely in stock
Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge
Nvidia warned of stock shortages earlier this week, and now its launch of the $1,999 RTX 5090 yesterday is being branded a “paper launch” after people camped outside retailers only to find a handful of cards available, if any at all.
Reddit users have been tracking inventory for RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 cards at Micro Center locations across the US, with some stores opening on Thursday with no RTX 5090 cards at all. The Tustin, California Micro Center store seems to have received the most stock, but other stores reportedly had 10 or less RTX 5090 cards. While Nvidia’s RTX 5080 was a little easier to purchase on launch day, cards rapidly went out of stock at retailers like Best Buy and Amazon.
Here’s where you can try to buy an Nvidia RTX 5080 or 5090
While Nvidia’s RTX 50-series graphics cards weren’t the zaniest devices at CES 2025, they stole the show with their promised groundbreaking performance breakthroughs. The RTX 5070, in particular, made headlines as a card that can supposedly rival an RTX 4090 for just $549. We later learned it uses DLSS 4’s AI-powered multi frame generation to achieve that in supported titles, but that’s a welcome compromise for those who can’t find room in their budget for the beefier 4K-ready GPUs — including the $999.99 RTX 5080 and the $1,999.99 RTX 5090.
Those premium cards are capable of greater raw performance, however. In our RTX 5080 review, we found it’s only about 15 percent faster than the RTX 4080 it’s replacing. Meanwhile, the benchmarks we ran for our RTX 5090 review averaged 28 percent better frame rates compared to the RTX 4090 for 4K games running at their highest settings with no frame generation help. That’s still impressive given the Founder’s Edition is considerably smaller than the 4090, so much so it will fit inside a small form factor PC case. No matter which you’re after, you’ll be exceedingly satisfied if you’re upgrading from an RTX 30-series card or older.
Nvidia’s latest AI trick made our mediocre webcam mic sound practically professional
Nvidia mildly blew our minds in 2020 when its graphics cards gained the ability to delete practically all the background noise from our audio calls with a free app, and now the company’s doing it again. My colleague and Verge senior news editor Richard Lawler just fired up Nvidia’s just-announced “Studio Voice” feature on his RTX 3070 — and it made his Logitech webcam’s awful built-in microphone sound downright respectable.
Take a listen:
YouTube is giving the RTX 5080 so much side-eye.
The sheer volume of these cracked me up, so I just had to make a little gallery for you (tap the arrows to cycle through).
Nvidia’s latest GPU driver lets you activate DLSS 4 in games and apps
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge
Nvidia is launching its next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs today, but it’s also releasing an exciting update for existing RTX GPU owners. A new GPU driver (572.16) allows you to force DLSS 4 inside games or apps that don’t currently support it, providing improved image quality and even less VRAM usage in some cases.
While DLSS 4 is debuting today in 75 games and apps, the Nvidia app now has a new override feature that will improve image quality in games that use DLSS by allowing you to switch to Nvidia’s new transformer model. This means you don’t have to wait on developers to update their games. Owners of RTX 40-series GPUs will also get access to a new frame generation model that is 40 percent faster and uses 30 percent less VRAM than the old one.
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 review: big expectations, small gains
Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge
Nvidia’s new RTX 5080 graphics card isn’t as exciting as I was hoping it would be. While the sleek new Founders Edition redesign dramatically shrinks the size of the card compared to the RTX 4080 and RTX 4080 Super, you’re getting the same 16GB of VRAM and only small performance improvements over the previous generation of cards.
The RTX 5080, which arrives January 30th for $999, is about 15 percent faster than the RTX 4080 at 4K without the use of any AI-powered upscaling tricks. While the RTX 4080 managed to beat the RTX 3090, and the RTX 3080 dethroned the RTX 2080 Ti, the RTX 5080 isn’t enough to topple the RTX 4090. Nvidia has built up an expectation that the 80-series card will surpass the previous generation’s flagship, and that’s simply not the case this time around.
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