ASUS issues a third RTX 5070 Ti clarification and walks back the earlier EOL claim

https://videocardz.com/newz/asus-issues-a-third-rtx-5070-ti-clarification-and-walks-back-the-earlier-eol-claim

Probably got a call from Nvidia lol

AMD says its working with board partners to maintain Radeon GPU prices close to MSRP

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-says-its-working-with-board-partners-to-maintain-radeon-gpu-prices-close-to-msrp

Remember when they said that during RDNA 4 launch and it was limited to like 100 units and the rest went well above MSRP

ASUS blames “confusion” for PCIe Q-Release update on new AMD Neo motherboards, not the PCB scratching issue

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-says-its-working-with-board-partners-to-maintain-radeon-gpu-prices-close-to-msrp

Why yes, 3 articles in a row warranted this gif

Qualcomm video teases Snapdragon X2 “desktops,” but the footage points to mini PCs

https://videocardz.com/newz/qualcomm-video-teases-snapdragon-x2-desktops-but-the-footage-points-to-mini-pcs

RTX 5060 dominates South Korea 2025 GPU charts, takes one third of NVIDIA sales

https://videocardz.com/newz/rtx-5060-dominates-south-korea-2025-gpu-charts-takes-one-third-of-nvidia-sales

Intel details Core 300 “Wildcat Lake” series: up to 6 CPU cores, 2 GPU cores and slower NPU than Panther Lake

https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-details-core-300-wildcat-lake-series-up-to-6-cpu-cores-2-gpu-cores-and-slower-npu-than-panther-lake

First thin & light laptop crosses 24 hours in Hardware Canucks web-browsing test, model yet to be named yet

https://videocardz.com/newz/first-thin-light-laptop-crosses-24-hours-in-hardware-canucks-web-browsing-test-model-yet-to-be-named-yet

Three More Ryzen 9800X3D Deaths Reported On ASUS Motherboards In A Single Day

https://wccftech.com/three-more-ryzen-9800x3d-deaths-reported-on-asus-motherboards-in-a-single-day/

First Asrock, now Asus? Why does this shit keep happening?

You watch a video like this and at first, you think to yourself... Oh man, DLSS 2 looks so shimmery and has plenty artifacts, blur and ghosting. How did we ever phrase this back in the day? And then you realize the render resolution he is using to show off the differences is 360p and 540p upscaled to 1080p and understand how nutty it was that an upscaling technology is able to not only show the game being as clear as it is back in the day but how much clear it is with the new model is absolutely nuts. DLSS 2 was never meant to go down this low and the fact that DLSS 4.5 is able to still be this clear while upscaling from 360p is truly nuts!

I also like that Nvidia has kept all the DLSS versions in their app so for the older generation of cards like Turing and Ampere where DLSS 4 is quite heavy, they can choose to run DLSS 2 and 3 in quality mode while still getting really great fps and visuals.

Thanks! Finally an acceptable price for the Final Fantasy 1 - 6 Pixel Remaster Collection, especially with additional discounts for Humble Choice subscribers.

I hope they aren't just talking sh*t and will deliver on this, but it's the same AMD that said they would look into porting FR4 to older RDNA cards and never did it, while modders managed to do it.

So yeah, I hope they do it but, if I had to buy a GPU, I'd do it sooner rather than later. Just in case.

It kind of makes sense to replace the 9070 with the GRE model with less VRAM, even if there's a noticeable performance differene between both cards, but I' hate, with passion, to see the 9060 XT 16GB disapper.

At least they've been honest and admitted that it all came from a "misunderstanding" from an Asus representative,which is quite rare nowadays. Someone else would have blamed Hardware Unboxed for reporting lies or false information.

They're very honest in fact, just look at the name.

They make it very clear that they are  a sus company

Steam has revealed the best selling new releases of December:

https://store.steampowered.com/charts/topnewreleases/december_2025

DECEMBER 2025

Total War: WARHAMMER III - Sayl – Tides of Torment link	My Winter Car (Early Access) link	Guild Wars® Reforged link
OCTOPATH TRAVELER 0 link	UNBEATABLE link	Total War: WARHAMMER III - Dechala – Tides of Torment link
Destiny 2: Renegades link	ARC Raiders - The Bonecrown Set link	MARVEL Cosmic Invasion link
Ashes of Creation (Early Access) link	Total War: WARHAMMER III - Aislinn – Tides of Torment link	Call to Arms - Gates of Hell: Finest Hour link

Quite a few DLCs.

TSMC have announced a large increase to their capital expenditure plan with their latest earnings. That's interesting for a rather conservative company.

Interesting news.

It will be interesting to see what they'll use the money for. New fabs? Increased packaging services? Buying the new lithography machines from ASML? (After all, they cost $400 millions each)

The 5090 starts at $4,400 USD.
The 5080 starts at $1500 USD.
The 9070XT can be had for as low as $750 USD.

And whilst you are correct that GDDR6/DDR4 has lower demand than DDR5... The factories that make GDDR6 and DDR4 can also make HBM memory, which is what those factories are doing in order to sell to datacenters/A.I... So supply for GDDR6 is also borked.

Slimming down product lines to prioritize higher volume/higher profit margin parts is likely the only option for AMD.
A 12GB GRE model would actually be brilliant in order to re-use faulty 9070XT dies, but cut down on memory costs. Ram makes up about 80% of GPU bill of materials currently.

CPU's use a lot of power and put out a lot of heat these days... It's not like the old Socket Super 7 days where you can put a heatsink without any thermal paste on a naked CPU die and call it a day and still get temps of around 60-70c.
Plus CPU's these days are typically run at their limits in terms of voltage/frequency to get every single drop of performance out of the hardware and that leaves very little room for error when it comes to voltage/frequency scaling... So any bullshit in the BIOS can have catastrophic consequences on parts that are already near their limits. (I.E. PBO)

Combine that with a cheapening of motherboard components like VRM/Mosfets and so forth, with new power standards/cables... And that compounds the issues.