HW News - RTX 5090 & 5080 Leaks, Valve ARM64 Experiments, Intel Arc 0% Marketshare, 4090 Price

There were a ton of leaks and rumors the last 2 weeks in news, but also plenty of hardware news. This included X870 releases (and tons of "AI" obsession), the new Meta Quest, a 2200W Seasonic PSU, and more. We'll also cover rumors of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 specs. These are not yet confirmed, but have hit the news circuit. Intel Battlemage also hit the rumor mill, alongside stories of Valve working on ARM64 support.

TIMESTAMPS

00:00 - Recapping the Week
01:23 - Intel Fab Tour Recap
03:57 - Alleged RTX 5090 & 5080 Specs Leaked
09:15 - RTX 4090 Price Inflation
10:23 - Valve Working on ARM64 Support
11:52 - GPU Sales Up, Intel Arc at 0%
15:55 - Intel Arc Battlemage GPU Spotted
17:01 - Qualcomm Allegedly In Talks to "Buy" Intel
20:48 - Rumor of 9950X3D & 9900X3D
22:05 - Strix Halo & Z2 Extreme Details
25:16 - Rapid X870, Steam, Meta Quest, & PSU News
29:19 - More Intel Microcode Updates for Instability

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[ScottGrammer]

4:46 The 5090 will indeed be a two-slot card. The two slots will be slot one and slot five.

[thatzaliasguy]

Proton still uses WINE. Proton is a containerized compatibility layer that includes WINE, DXVK, and VKD3D (among other compatibility prerequisites).

[DankbeastPaul]

28:52 Motherboard seller, I am going into battle and I need your STRONGEST motherboards!

[Noxeus]

Saying Proton is not a second-class citizen vs. Wine is misleading. Proton *is* Wine, just containerized and packaged in a user-friendly way. And while Valve has contributed to the overall ecosystem, if anyone should be given credit for the Proton 3D performance it should be people like Doitsujin who wrote the absolutely critical DXVK software for translating DirectX to Vulkan.

[TheRenalicious]

I'm still blown away by how much cache those X3D chips have. Like that's enough to fit old 90's games onto the CPU and never have to touch main memory. Hell, that's probably enough cache to run Windows 9x without main memory!

[Karti]

As daily Arc user since release... i won't lie

it hurts to hear that

[christianvetter]

9:25 One important additional information concerning this topic ... FE cards are not officially sold in Germany. I tried to get one with the launch of the 40-series. Not a single online retailer was listing them.

[jackali]

Can you please investigate Gigabyte's misleading practices regarding their AM5 motherboards? Specifically, the B650 Gaming X. They sell different revisions under the same model name, but the critical difference is that rev 1.3 only supports the Ryzen 7000 series, while rev 1.5 supports the 8000 and 9000 series. When purchasing these motherboards, Gigabyte doesn’t clearly mention the revision number or clarify that different revisions exist, even though they have vastly different compatibility. This lack of transparency is misleading to consumers, as the model names are identical, and buyers might not realize they're purchasing an older revision that limits future upgrades.

[sdovhfunlahsvisegbakshfjbs]

NVIDIA should introduce rounded models so that it does not hurt them that much when putting it where it belongs...

[hansolo]

The MSRP of the RTX 5090 is…
$5090. 😮

[Ale-chxx]

Cool, I am one of the zero percent market share with my Arc A580 :)

[KevPez-IS]

My 3080 died and I needed a GPU for video editing/class. Went for an A770….i love it. No, not as good at gaming, but good enough. Good gaming performance for what I play, excellent Adobe CC performance, outstanding value

[ryanbrennan]

HIKE? My 1080 is never getting upgraded bro 😭

[voyagerrock]

We don't just get better frame pacing with proton, we just straight up do not have shader compilation stuttering at all

[krautworks]

Those 5090 leaks are giving me R9 295X2 flashbacks.

[MrFallenone]

28:47 Huge missed opportunity to call the board Godl Ai ke.

[david]

3D-V-Cache for all cores would be huge

[ResumedPausing]

really hope that the rumored v-cache on both CCD's comes true

[porforyticbasalt]

Oh boy, i can't wait for the breakthrough where they make ai-ram and ai-rgb controllers

[schmutzg]

Remember when things used to get cheaper after initial release? Pepperidge farms remembers. *SIGH* It's gonna be a long long time before I get an upgrade