Prices rise by ten per cent

AMD has told its graphics card partners to brace for a price rise across its entire GPU lineup after DRAM costs shot up again, putting an end to the brief spell when Radeon RX 9000 cards drifted back to their launch stickers.

Stockpiling, shortages and silly prices are now the industry’s default setting.

The memory world has wandered straight into a supply shock, and every big name is now stuffing its warehouses like doomsday preppers.

High-end handhelds vanish

Asus has joined the parade of companies waving quarterly numbers at investors, and its chief financial officer, Nick Wu, used the Q3 2025 call to gush about the latest ROG Ally machines, which were launched last month, with Microsoft’s Xbox crew lurking in the background.

Os deadline and tariff tinkering push PC shipments up 8.1 per cent

Global PC shipments are finally showing signs of life, rising 8.1 per cent year on year in the third quarter of 2025, according to Counterpoint Research.

Limited edition to celebrate the launch of Call of Duty: Black Ops 7

ASUS has announced yet another limited edition graphics card, the TUF Gaming Radeon RX 9070 XT Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 Edition, designed in cooperation with AMD and Activision.

Enterprises rush refreshes while consumers tag along

Beancounters at IDC have added up some numbers and divided by their collective shoe size and reckons the PC market just clocked its best quarter in years.

AMD's graphics card for professional AI at the edge

ASUS has now officially announced the Turbo Radeon AI PRO R9700 graphics, a 32GB graphics card for AI developers and professionals. Announced back in July, the Radeon AI PRO R9700 is based on Navi 48 GPU, with 64 Compute Units and 128 AI Accelerators, and 32GB of GDDR6 memory.

Nvidia price slide continues

While Nvidia's RTX 50 series finally has enough cards in the wild, prices are dipping with some falling below their original MSRP.

30th anniversary limited edition

Asus has now confirmed it will launch its next-generation ROG MATRIX graphics card, one based on the Geforce RTX 5090. The card comes as Asus' celebration for the 30th anniversary of its first graphics card.

ASUS graphics card with triple Noctua fans and custom heatsink

ASUS and Noctua both announced the new ASUS GeForce RTX 5080 Noctua Edition, which is actually the fifth ASUS graphics card to feature Noctua fans and a co-developed heatsink. It also features a recognizable Noctua color scheme.