Nvidia

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:

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.