Hope you weren’t planning to play PhysX games on Nvidia’s new 50-series GPUs Remember PhysX, the GPU-accelerated technology that let games realistically simulate destructible cloth, shattering glass, moving liquids, smoke, fog, and other particle effects? It only ever got deployed in a few dozen games — but with PhysX turned on, those games reportedly now run faster on Nvidia’s last-gen cards than they do on a new RTX

All the news about Nvidia’s RTX 50-series GPUs Photo by Tom Warren / The VergeThe next generation of Nvidia GPUs is almost here. Nvidia’s RTX 50-series GPUs are just around the corner, with the first releases — the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 — dropping on January 30th. The RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5070 will follow that with their own releases in February, but some are already getting a sneak peek at t…

Nvidia announces next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs Image: NvidiaNvidia is officially announcing its RTX 50-series GPUs today. After months of leaks and rumors, the next-generation RTX Blackwell GPUs are now official, and there are four of them on the way. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang revealed the RTX 50-series GPUs during a CES keynote this evening, announcing a $1,999 RTX 5090, a $999 RTX 5080, a $…

Nvidia’s new DLSS 3.5 works on all RTX GPUs to improve the quality of ray tracing Image: NvidiaNvidia is introducing DLSS 3.5 this fall with a new AI-powered Ray Reconstruction technique that’s designed to improve the quality of ray tracing. Unlike DLSS 3’s Frame Generation, which was limited to just RTX 40-series GPUs, DLSS 3.5 will boost ray tracing across all RTX-series GPUs going back to the RTX 20 series. Nvidia is prim…

AMD is gearing up to reveal new Radeon GPUs next week Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeAMD could reveal a new set of Radeon graphics cards as soon as next week. Scott Herkelman, AMD’s senior vice president, says in a post on X (formerly Twitter) that the Radeon team will make some “major product announcements” at Gamescom (via VideoCardz). While Herkelman didn’t specify what those “major” ann…