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.
Two sources speaking with NPR say that after that dinner, in which Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was in attendance, the White House put on hold additional restrictions to curb sales of Nvidia’s nerfed (but still powerful) H20 AI chips to China. In January, Bloomberg reported that the Trump Administration was exploring the restrictions but was just in the early stages.
If you’re quick, you might be able to snag an MSI-branded RTX 5070 graphics card before they eventually sell out. The two-fan Shadow 2X OC configuration costs $549.99, a price that’s delightful to see given that RTX 50-series cards of all sorts have become difficult to find in stock.
Maybe this is a sign that graphics cards’ stock situation is improving? Or, perhaps it’s a sign that more people are buying the 5070’s direct competitor, the similarly priced, yet slightly faster AMD Radeon RX 9070.
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Nvidia’s latest GPU launch had PC gamers talking about a “paper launch” after limited quantities seemed to sell out instantly, but as PC World and Tom’s Hardware point out, there is one place you can grab a 5080 or 5090: this week’s GTC 2025 Conference.
Other than news about various AI projects, Nvidia is selling 1,000 of each variant for the standard price from its Gear Store Mobile Truck at spontaneous times... but only for attendees who may have already paid as much as $1,145 for a one-day conference pass.
After Apple promised last month to invest $500 billion in the US in the wake of Trump’s recent tariffs, Nvidia is matching suit. CEO Jensen Huang suggests he may be able to splash a few hundred billion on US manufacturing:
“Overall, we will procure, over the course of the next four years, probably half a trillion dollars worth of electronics in total. And I think we can easily see ourselves manufacturing several hundred billion of it here in the US.”
Huang also praised Huawei’s AI efforts, just days after Nvidia launched its own new AI superchips.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
AMD’s two new GPUs beat Nvidia’s RTX 5070 and put the pressure on pricing.
0The RTX 5070 is a solid card for 1440p gaming, though.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
$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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
0The RTX 5070 Ti delivers almost identical performance to the RTX 4080 with slightly less power draw.
