Nvidia

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.

$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.

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.

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

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia, didn’t join other AI-heavy tech execs at the presidential inauguration and skipped the announcement of the Stargate Project, but Reuters reported he was scheduled to meet with Trump at the White House on Friday.

As Chinese AI startup DeepSeek draws attention for open-source AI models that it says are cheaper than the competition while providing similar or better performance, AI chip king Nvidia’s stock price dropped today.

In a statement to Bloomberg, an Nvidia spokesperson said DeepSeek is an “excellent AI advancement” and shows how a company can create new AI models using the test-time scaling method, while “leveraging widely-available models and compute that is fully export control compliant.”

Nvidia’s upcoming RTX 5090 launch on January 30th might be met with limited stock, according to some system builders and retailers. PowerGPU is warning that the RTX 5090 will have poor availability, and others are warning that some cards might not arrive until February.

Nvidia says more than 80 percent of RTX GPU owners activate its DLSS upscaling. That includes owners of RTX 20-series GPUs on up to RTX 40-series cards. Nvidia originally launched DLSS with its RTX 20-series GPUs in 2018, and now it’s about to launch DLSS 4 with the RTX 50-series later this month. DLSS 4 is a big upgrade with neural rendering capabilities and Multi Frame Generation.

The AI boom means most of these highly sought-after parts wind up in server farms, so it’s rare to see one ourselves — but AMD and Nvidia showed off a few at CES 2025. Here’s AMD’s MI325X, and then what appears to be Nvidia’s GB200 NVL72, with potentially lots of its new Blackwell AI chips inside.