Twice the bandwidth, 16k support and more marketing confusion
The HDMI Forum has finally put the HDMI 2.2 spec to bed and it is already making DisplayPort 2.1b look a bit flaccid. The new version doubles the bandwidth to 96 GB/s, thanks to the introduction of the shiny new "Ultra96" cable.
2560 cores, 8GB RAM and just enough to call it an upgrade
Nvidia has finally stuck the GeForce RTX 5050 desktop GPU on its website, and while it’s not breaking any records, it’s clearly angling for the sweet spot of entry-level gamers who fancy a whiff of Blackwell architecture without torching their wallets.
Canonical and Intel scrap GPU mitigations
Ubuntu 25.10 to ditch Intel graphics security trade-offs for OpenCL and Level Zero
Troubled Chipzilla's long-suffering GPU compute stack is getting a breather, as it and Ubuntu’s Canonical have decided to chuck out security mitigations that were kneecapping performance by up to 20 per cent.
Dual-slot Creator series Radeon AI PRO
ASRock has announced the launch of its latest graphics card, the Radeon AI PRO R9700 Creator, built to support edge AI acceleration and professional visualization tasks. Featuring a 4 nm Navi 48 silicon, the GPU comes fully enabled with 64 compute units (4,096 stream processors), 128 AI accelerators, and 64 ray tracing units. It also packs 32GB of memory, which should help with larger AI models.
AMD FSR 4 on RDNA 3 is a half-baked miracle
Upscaling better, but frame rate takes a kicking
A Reddit user has forced AMD’s shiny new FSR 4 to run on a Radeon RX 7900 XTX, despite the chipmaker insisting the tech is only for its RDNA 4 GPUs.