Excuse me, but RR only has one meaning: Red Ribbon. And we should all be thankful that Goku took care of them.

Now, seriously, all these news about the price increase and how long this whole thing may last (years), coupled by some Black Friday deals going on, are actually making me think about a (long overdue) GPU upgrade. Not because I need it, at least yet, but in case mine stops working and I'm forced to pay more for one.

Future generations of GPUs should eventually start including a lot of very interesting features once we get latency down enough, like being able to upscale textures or add ray-tracing automatically. I wouldn't be in a hurry to upgrade.

Idk how long I'll keep my 4090 but it sounds like rtx 7000 series at the very least before an upgrade with the way things are going lol

There's the video. Yea Nvidia's is quite ahead as Radeon seems to be missing a good amount of objects such as lights and etc along with low resolution in the reflection. Perhaps this is due to it being released in an incomplete state as the rest of the FSR Redstone is not out till December 10th and as they mention in the video, it's technically two different technologies that likely shouldn't be compared as they aren't doing the samething. It does do somethings better however such as Nvidia's solution does have some ghosting in certain conditions while Radeons solution doesn't. I'd watch the video because they point out a lot of interesting facts about how both technologies work but I'd wait for games that support the full FSR redstone feature set before judging Radeons progress as whole. As of right now though, not even close.

I was contemplating spending $980 AUD on a 9070XT before prices rise... But honestly the 9060XT 16GB runs everything fine for the moment and would be fine for the next few years.
Bought a new Core i7 12650H Laptop with an RTX 3060 for $699 AUD instead.

Absolutely nuts I can buy an entire notebook that is eSports capable for the price of a mid-range GPU.

That or whenever the AI bubble pops. 

So, another quarter of record sales and profits. Time to party, baby!

As someone of the older...persuasion...RR for me always meant Rolls Royce. ;)

Finally got around trying demo of "Of Ash and Steel"...well, all I can say, this really feels like love letter to Gothic 1/2 (with all the parts, including obligatory jank), so for those few Gothic fans around here, do check it out:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2893820/Of_Ash_and_Steel/

It launches in few days apparently.

Intel Core Ultra 300 “Panther Lake” officially launches at CES 2026 on January 5th

https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-core-ultra-300-panther-lake-officially-launches-at-ces-2026-on-january-5th

Windows 1 was released 40 years ago

https://videocardz.com/newz/windows-1-was-released-40-years-ago

AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB drops to $339 for Black Friday

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-radeon-rx-9060-xt-16gb-drops-to-339-for-black-friday

NVIDIA releases GeForce Hotfix Driver 581.94 to fix Windows 11 KB5066835 performance drop

https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-releases-geforce-hotfix-driver-581-94-to-fix-windows-11-kb5066835-performance-drop

NVIDIA replaces user-damaged $10K RTX PRO 6000 card, used PCIe boards now sold in China

https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-replaces-user-damaged-10k-rtx-pro-6000-card-used-pcie-boards-now-sold-in-china

Qualcomm claims 90% game compatibility and 50% faster gaming than Intel Core Ultra 2 series for Adreno X2 GPU

https://videocardz.com/newz/qualcomm-claims-90-game-compatibility-and-50-faster-gaming-than-intel-core-ultra-2-series-for-adreno-x2-gpu

U.S. Approves Deal to Sell AI Chips to Middle East

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/u-s-approves-deal-to-sell-ai-chips-to-middle-east-79d68f36

Both gaming and data center up Y on Y. How high will they go? No one knows