News

A serious bug is causing major headaches for early adopters of Nvidia's new Blackwell GPUs, including the flagship RTX 5090 and the professional RTX PRO 6000. Reports from a GPU cloud provider, CloudRift, and various community forums confirm the issue, which can leave a GPU completely unresponsive and force a full system reboot to fix. The problem has become so significant that a $1,000 bug bounty has been offered to anyone who can find a solution.

You’ve probably heard whispers about those crazy "Frankenstein" GeForce RTX 4090 48GB graphics cards coming out of China. Now, a Russian PC technician and builder known as VIK-on has pulled back the curtain, giving us a detailed look at how these gaming flagships are being transformed to double their VRAM, specifically for highly sought-after AI workloads.

The standard GeForce RTX 4090 is built as a mainstream product and, unlike Nvidia’s professional and data center cards, does not support a clamshell memory configuration. This means the Ada Lovelace flagship only houses memory chips on one side of its PCB. To get around this, Chinese factories have created a "GeForce RTX 4090 48GB upgrade kit" that sells for around $142 in China.

NVIDIA is reportedly preparing to launch a "SUPER" refresh of its RTX 50-series graphics cards, with new leaks revealing details on the upcoming RTX 5080 SUPER, RTX 5070 Ti SUPER, and RTX 5070 SUPER. This refresh is rumored to address the growing demand for more VRAM in modern games, offering a significant boost in memory capacity and performance over the non-SUPER models.