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Nvidia is one of the world’s biggest computer chip companies, best known for its line of graphics processing units or GPUs. Although the firm had its start in the world of consumer gaming, in recent years it’s grown into a true tech titan with diverse investments in self-driving cars, cloud computing, supercomputing, and artificial intelligence. The parallel processing power of Nvidia’s GPUs has proven to be particularly good at machine learning tasks, and its chips are in high demand not only from AI researchers but any business with an interest in artificial intelligence. From 2015 onwards, Nvidia’s share price grew sharply, allowing the company to make some key acquisitions, including UK chip designer ARM, which it announced it would purchase in September 2020 for $40 billion. Nvidia was founded in 1993 by Jensen Huang, who is currently the firm’s CEO. Known for his leather jackets and upbeat corporate presentations, Huang is a familiar figure to anyone interested in tech.

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Nvidia’s latest driver enables DLSS 4 override options for more games.

Aside from today’s AI announcements, Nvidia also updated the Game Ready GPU driver to version 572.83 and says it has significantly expanded the list of games where PC gamers can switch on DLSS 4 features like Multi Frame Generation, AI model upgrades, or additional performance modes.

Over 100 games and apps now support DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation, and it says overrides for 62 titles have been added or updated since the last driver release. Check here for the full list.

Thomas Ricker
Thomas Ricker
Nvidia adopts Google’s SynthID watermarking.

In an effort to help preserve intellectual property and fight misinformation and misattribution, AI-generated video outputs from Nvidia’s Cosmos world foundation models will include SynthID digital watermarks. That makes Nvidia the first external user of Google DeepMind’s watermarking tech, announced back in 2023.

Update: Nvidia now says only video outputs will be watermarked, not text and audio as originally told to The Verge.

Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
Twenty years later, Half-Life 2 is a top tech demo again.

On March 18th, Nvidia will release a two-hour demo for Half-Life 2 owners, showing what its RTX 50 cards can do: full ray tracing, subsurface scattering for translucent skin, volumetric light through fog and smoke, physically-based materials, and Nvidia’s new neural shaders — which are also coming to DirectX for other developers in April.

Half-Life 2 RTX Remix isn’t for weak rigs. Even an RTX 5090 / Ryzen 9800X3D system might get under 30fps at 4K before applying DLSS 4. With it, Nvidia suggests an RTX 5070 might be enough for a 1440p tour.

In this demo, you do go to Ravenholm — and Nova Prospekt, too.
In this demo, you do go to Ravenholm — and Nova Prospekt, too.
Image: Nvidia
Tom Warren
Tom Warren
Nvidia claims it sold more RTX 50-series GPUs than you might think.

Nvidia is revealing today that it has sold more RTX 50-series GPUs than 40-series during the first five weeks of launch. While we don’t have exact figures, Nvidia has supplied a chart that claims it has shipped 2x in that same amount of time. It’s also showing that more than 90 percent of RTX 50-series owners turn on DLSS, up from the overall 80 percent of all RTX owners that enable the upscaling technology.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Classic Warcraft games are coming to GeForce Now.

Warcraft I Remastered, Warcraft II Remastered, and Warcraft III: Reforged are all coming to the service “this week,” according to a blog post from Nvidia.

The very-good Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector will be available to stream, too.

A screenshot from Warcraft II Remastered.
A screenshot from Warcraft II Remastered.
Image: Blizzard
AMD Radeon RX 9070 / 9070 XT review: Nvidia gets some big next-gen competition

AMD’s two new GPUs beat Nvidia’s RTX 5070 and put the pressure on pricing.

Tom Warren
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 review: definitely not a $549 RTX 40900

The RTX 5070 is a solid card for 1440p gaming, though.

Tom Warren
Umar Shakir
Umar Shakir
Intel is reportedly testing its 18A process again.

After a test of its 18A process last year reportedly failed, Reuters says both Nvidia and Broadcom are actively testing it. The 18A process is a key to Intel’s plan to reestablish itself in the race to build new AI chips.

Wes Davis
Wes Davis
Nvidia issues a new hotfix for black screens.

An Nvidia support page says the new hotfix (v572.65) drivers “are basically the same as the previous released version, with a small number of additional targeted fixes,” referring to issues with black screens on RTX 50 GPUs that drivers released earlier this week were also aimed at addressing.

Nvidia announced the new hotfix on X this morning.
Nvidia announced the new hotfix on X this morning.
Screenshot: X
Tom Warren
Tom Warren
Nvidia’s latest driver fixes black screen issues.

As promised, Nvidia has just issued its latest GPU drivers (572.60), and they include fixes for “various black screen issues” affecting RTX 50-series cards. This latest driver also includes DLSS 4 support for NARAKA: BLADEPOINT, support for 29 new G-Sync displays, and a bunch of fixes for Adobe Substance 3D Painter and Sampler.

Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
Nvidia’s next AI chip, Blackwell Ultra, will be unveiled next month.

Nvidia is hosting its GTC keynote on March 18th, and its keynote speaker has just revealed his talk. “Come to GTC and I’ll talk to you about Blackwell Ultra, Vera Rubin, and then show you the one click after that,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told analysts on the fiscal Q4 2025 earnings call.

He says Blackwell Ultra will come in the second half of next year, with new networking, new memory, new processors, but on the same system architecture as Blackwell.

Blackwell Ultra and Vera Rubin were named on a roadmap last June.
Blackwell Ultra and Vera Rubin were named on a roadmap last June.
Image: Nvidia
Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
Even Nvidia’s networking business is now bigger than gaming.

We knew that Nvidia and AMD were becoming AI companies, their data center profits rising so stratospherically that gaming graphics almost seem like an afterthought — but this chart truly puts it in perspective.

Not only is Nvidia’s AI compute selling nine times better than its gaming GPUs, its networking business alone has surpassed gaming for the full fiscal year. Not that an $11.35 billion gaming business is anything to sneeze at.

Compare: $12.99B of networking vs. $11.35B of gaming.
Compare: $12.99B of networking vs. $11.35B of gaming.
Image: Nvidia
Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
Nvidia just made another $22 billion in pure profit in Q4.

$14.8 billion profit in Q1, $16.6 billion in Q2, $19.3 billion in Q3 — and now, $22.09 billion in profit in fiscal Q4 2025. Add it up, divide, and on average: Nvidia now makes $2,300 in pure profit every second.

While I know it’s not all investors and businesses care about, I’ve always been fascinated by massive profits because of all they could be used for, whether it’s investing in moonshots, buying other companies, solving world hunger, or just making their pricy products more affordable.

Nvidia set quarterly and annual revenue records, too. Gaming was down, all other businesses up.
Nvidia set quarterly and annual revenue records, too. Gaming was down, all other businesses up.
Image: Nvidia
Tom Warren
Tom Warren
Nvidia has a black screen driver fix on the way.

Some owners of Nvidia’s RTX graphics cards have noticed black screen issues with the latest driver update recently. VideoCardz spotted that Nvidia has now confirmed that a driver update will be available later this week that includes a fix for the black screen issues. Some RTX 5090 cards are also receiving a BIOS update that will address the black screen problems.

Wes Davis
Wes Davis
RTX 5080s are missing ROPs, too.

A Reddit user posted a screenshot showing that their RTX 5080 has fewer ROPs than it should.

Nvidia didn’t include the RTX 5080 when it confirmed to The Verge that a manufacturing defect is leaving “less than 0.5%” of 5090, 5090D, and 5070 Ti chips short on ROPs. The company didn’t immediately respond to our request for comment on this new report.

Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
Do us a favor and check your Nvidia RTX 5090 for missing render units?

It looks like Nvidia may have yet another issue with its flagship RTX 5090 card — a noted leaker claims it shipped out partially defective chips with slightly worse performance. Maybe check your card with GPU-Z and see if it’s showing the proper number of 176 ROPs?

It’s not every card, but reports are coming in of Zotac, MSI, Gigabyte, Manli, and even an Nvidia Founders Edition card with missing ROPs.

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Nvidia releases new drivers along with the RTX 5070 Ti launch and fixes a weird bug.

The latest Nvidia drivers add support for DLSS 4-enabled Multi Frame Generation in Marvel Rivals, allowing a 5090 to deliver up to 630 “fake” frames per second in 1080p.

Even if you have older hardware than the likely-hard-to-find 5070 Ti, the release notes (pdf) for 572.47 say it also addresses a bug I’d experienced recently, where it could crash your system instead of waking up the monitor from an extended sleep.

Graph showing Marvel Rivals performance in 1080p with DLSS off, compared to with Frame Gen and Multi Frame Gen, across various Nvidia GPUs.
Image: Nvidia
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti review: a cheaper RTX 40800

The RTX 5070 Ti delivers almost identical performance to the RTX 4080 with slightly less power draw.

Tom Warren
Antonio G. Di Benedetto
Antonio G. Di Benedetto
Nvidia RTX 50-series laptop preorders start February 25th.

Nvidia announced in a post on X that laptops running RTX 50-series GPUs will go up for preorder on February 25th. It’s likely that laptop manufacturers will announce shipping dates and further details beyond this small tease soon.

Hopefully laptops running the new mobile GPUs won’t be as scarce as the recently launched RTX 5090 and 5080 desktop cards.

Tom Warren
Tom Warren
A ‘concerning’ RTX 5090 power connector discovery.

I covered the RTX 5090 melting power connector situation yesterday, and I was surprised at the amount of people quick to blame “user error” for someone using a third-party cable. YouTuber der8auer has now examined one of the burnt cables, and he’s found that this isn’t user error and could be related to a current distribution problem instead. Nvidia still hasn’t commented on the situation.

Tom Warren
Tom Warren
Nvidia’s hotfix driver fixes RTX 50-series Valorant crashes.

When I reviewed the RTX 5090 I noticed Valorant kept crashing, and now Nvidia has released a driver to fix that very problem. The new 572.24 driver fixes Valorant crashes on the RTX 5080 or RTX 5090, and also addresses issues where Final Fantasy XVI would freeze once you exit it. You can grab the driver from Nvidia’s support website.

Image: Nvidia
Owen Grove
Owen Grove
Nvidia brings some AI to your webcam.

Nvidia Broadcast is a free app that just rolled out an update with a few AI features. I tried out the features “Studio Voice,” “Eye Contact,” “Noise Removal,” and “Virtual Key Light” to see just how much they improve my webcam quality. My GPU didn’t have too much trouble, but Nvidia still doesn’t recommend gaming while using these.