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As Nvidia struggles with RTX 5060 Ti stock, AMD’s RX 9060 XT GPU could sweep in and score a mid-range win with plentiful supply
AMD’s RX 9060 XT graphics card is rumored to have healthy stock levels when it launches, and that could be a serious problem for Nvidia.
Intel releases new patch for CPUs affected by instability issues – but wait, weren’t we done with this already?
Did you forget about Intel’s CPU instability issues? Well don’t, because there’s a new patch that fixes further problems with 14th-gen and 13th-gen chips.
Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon X Series ads are wickedly funny, but are they fair to Intel?
A matter of perspective
Nvidia confirms on-sale date for RTX 5060 GPU, setting up a possible showdown with AMD’s rumored RX 9060 XT
Nvidia confirms RTX 5060 arrives May 19, and with AMD’s RX 9060 XT rumored for mid-May, this should be a crucial lower-mid-range GPU showdown.
As I predicted, Nvidia's RTX 5060 Ti 8GB will incur a 'motherboard tax' – it suffers a significant performance loss using PCIe 4.0
Nvidia's RTX 5060 Ti has already received a lot of backlash over the 8GB variant, and new performance results corroborate consumers' frustrations.
Nvidia’s RTX 5060 GPU looks to be imminent, but it could get a very frosty reception
All signs are pointing to this incoming Nvidia graphics card catching a lot of flak due to its weak-sauce memory loadout.
Intel's Arc B770 GPU could go head-to-head with Nvidia's RTX 5060 – and it's expected to be revealed at Computex
Nvidia is preparing its launch of the RTX 5060 this May, but rumors suggest Intel may join AMD in the party of disrupting Team Green's efforts.
RTX 5080 Super 24GB and 5070 Super 18GB rumored once again – and they could be keenly priced because AMD’s RDNA 4 GPUs have ‘spooked’ Nvidia
It looks like the gloves might come off, and Nvidia could provide us with an RTX 5080 Super to match the RTX 4090 – for way less money.
AMD's Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB GPU reportedly set to take retail priority over 8GB counterpart - is this the beginning of the end for 8GB GPUs?
AMD and Nvidia look set to battle it out again, with both anticipated to launch GPUs this May, but one of Team Red's may not get much spotlight in the market.
