RTX GPUs Archives

AppWizard

September 21, 2025

Nvidia invests $5bn in Intel

Nvidia has announced a substantial investment in Intel, focusing on collaboration in consumer-grade PC products and enterprise technologies, including data centers. The partnership will integrate Nvidia's NVLink technology with Intel's chip architectures to enhance product performance. Intel plans to develop x86 system-on-chips incorporating Nvidia's RTX GPUs for improved graphics and processing capabilities. Nvidia's CEO, Jensen Huang, highlighted the partnership's potential to transform computing, while Intel's CEO, Lip-Bu Tan, expressed confidence in combining their strengths to drive industry breakthroughs.

Winsage

September 14, 2025

Windows 10 is almost dead — here’s my top 5 Windows 11 picks to get before the deadline

The end of Windows 10 support is on October 14, 2025, prompting users to transition to Windows 11. Users can enroll in Microsoft's Extended Security Updates (ESU) program for an additional year of security updates if they wish to retain Windows 10. Lightweight options like Tiny11 Build can help older PCs, but Windows 11's hardware requirements may prevent some users from upgrading. Installing Windows 11 on unsupported devices risks missing essential security updates, making hardware upgrades advisable. Recommended devices for Windows 11 include: - Laptop: Acer Aspire Go 15, featuring an Intel Core i3-N305 CPU, a 15.6-inch display, priced under 0, with up to 10 hours of battery life. - Desktop: Dell XPS 8950, suitable for office use and gaming, especially with Nvidia RTX GPUs. - Gaming Desktop: Acer Predator Orion 5000, known for performance and value, often available for less than ,799 during sales. - Mini PC: Geekom A5 2025 Edition, priced around 9, supports up to four monitors, and has upgradeable components. - All-in-One PC: MSI Modern AM271P 11M, featuring a 27-inch display, suitable for everyday tasks, bundled with a keyboard and mouse. - 2-in-1 Laptop: Microsoft Surface Pro 11, equipped with a Snapdragon X-series chip, designed for both casual browsing and intensive tasks.

Winsage

August 6, 2025

OpenAI’s New Open Models Accelerated Locally on NVIDIA GeForce RTX and RTX PRO GPUs

NVIDIA has partnered with OpenAI to enhance the gpt-oss models for NVIDIA GPUs, enabling rapid inference and supporting millions of users on NVIDIA RTX AI PCs. The gpt-oss-20b and gpt-oss-120b models, trained on NVIDIA H100 GPUs, feature open-weight reasoning and can handle context lengths of up to 131,072 tokens. Users can utilize these models through frameworks like Ollama, which provides a user-friendly interface for experimentation. The models are optimized for RTX GPUs and support applications such as web search and coding assistance. Developers can also access the models via Microsoft AI Foundry Local and other frameworks, with NVIDIA contributing to open-source projects to enhance performance.

Winsage

August 2, 2025

Nvidia extends Windows 10 support, adds G-Sync monitors

Nvidia has released a new GeForce Game Ready Driver that enhances support for Windows 10 devices and optimizes select games and G-Sync compatible displays. This driver extends support for GeForce RTX GPUs until October 2026, coinciding with Microsoft's end of support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025. Nvidia is also extending support for older GPUs, with Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta-based GeForce cards receiving quarterly security updates until October 2028. The update introduces support for 62 additional G-Sync compatible monitors and performance improvements for games like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Mafia: The Old Country, releasing on August 8th.

Winsage

August 1, 2025

NVIDIA announces end-of-life support for many of its GTX cards — but it’s not all bad news

NVIDIA will issue one final major driver update for its Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta graphics card architectures in October 2025, after which these cards will only receive quarterly security updates. Regular "Game Ready" updates will cease, although support for these architectures will continue until October 2028. The Pascal architecture, launched in 2016, remains popular, with the GTX 1060 being used by 2.15% of PCs as of June 2025. NVIDIA will extend Game Ready driver support for its newer RTX GPUs on Windows 10 until October 2026.

Winsage

August 1, 2025

Nvidia says it’s game over come October for GTX 10, 9 and 7-series graphics cards driver support but RTX owners running Windows 10 are getting an extra year of grace

Nvidia has confirmed the end of support for its Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta graphics architectures, with one final major driver update scheduled for October 2025. After this, users will receive quarterly security updates for these architectures until October 2028. Nvidia will continue to provide Windows 10 Game Ready Drivers for all RTX GPUs until October 2026. Maxwell includes the GeForce GTX 7 and 9 series, while Pascal is for the GTX 10 Series. The GTX 1650 and GTX 1660 are based on the Turing architecture, which is not affected. Volta is primarily for enterprise use and does not have gaming GPUs. Users will no longer receive "Game Ready" optimizations after the final driver release.

Winsage

July 31, 2025

NVIDIA is ending support for its GTX 10-, 9- and 7-series GPUs

NVIDIA is retiring its Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPU architectures, with a final driver release scheduled for October. After this, GeForce GTX 7-, 9-, and 10-series cards will receive quarterly security updates, with full support ending in 2028. Users can continue using their GPUs, but they will not be optimized for new games and may face technical vulnerabilities. NVIDIA claims its 11-year support for this hardware exceeds industry standards. NVIDIA's Game Ready Driver support for Windows 10 on all RTX GPUs will continue until October 2026, which is longer than Microsoft's plan to phase out Windows 10. The latest GRD update enhances support for new games and introduces compatibility for 62 new G-Sync displays.

Winsage

July 31, 2025

Nvidia will support GeForce drivers on Windows 10 until October 2026

Nvidia has released a new GeForce Game Ready Driver that extends support for Windows 10 devices and various games, maintaining compatibility for GeForce RTX GPUs with Windows 10 until October 2026. This update provides continued access to optimizations for new games and applications. Windows 11 has surpassed Windows 10 in market share, claiming 52 percent compared to Windows 10's 44.59 percent. Nvidia will also provide quarterly security updates for Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta-based GeForce cards until October 2028, although updates for the CUDA architecture for these older cards will be discontinued in the next CUDA Toolkit update. The update includes support for 62 new G-Sync compatible monitor displays and enhances performance for upcoming titles like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Mafia: The Old Country, launching on August 8th. Users can download the update from Nvidia’s official website.

AppWizard

February 28, 2025

Deadlock Adds NVIDIA Reflex, Reducing PC Latency By Up To 45% On GeForce RTX GPUs

NVIDIA Reflex, introduced in September 2020, has reduced PC latency in over 130 titles, with 90% of GeForce gamers adopting the technology. It is supported by nine of the top ten competitive shooters, including Call of Duty: Warzone, Counter-Strike 2, and Fortnite, as well as critically acclaimed games like Cyberpunk 2077 and God of War. In 2024, GeForce gamers have enjoyed over 10 billion hours of gameplay using Reflex. Recently, Reflex expanded to Deadlock and received updates for games like World of Warcraft and Apex Legends, integrating into an additional 11 games and further reducing latency for GeForce RTX gamers.

Winsage

November 19, 2024

Microsoft and NVIDIA Supercharge AI Development on RTX AI PCs

Generative AI-powered laptops and PCs are advancing sectors like gaming, content creation, productivity, and software development, with over 600 Windows applications and games utilizing AI on more than 100 million GeForce RTX AI PCs globally. At the Microsoft Ignite event, NVIDIA and Microsoft introduced tools for Windows developers to build and optimize AI applications on RTX AI PCs, enhancing workflows for AI agents and digital humans. NVIDIA's interactive digital human, James, utilizes NVIDIA NIM microservices, NVIDIA ACE, and ElevenLabs technologies for immersive interactions. NVIDIA ACE enhances digital entities' engagement through visual perception, allowing context-aware responses. The multimodal small language models developed by NVIDIA process text and imagery, optimizing rapid response times. The upcoming NVIDIA Nemovision-4B-Instruct model operates on RTX GPUs while maintaining accuracy, enabling digital humans to interpret visual imagery for relevant responses. NVIDIA will also launch the Mistral NeMo Minitron 128k Instruct family, offering large-context small language models in various parameter versions for efficient digital human interactions. These models process extensive datasets without segmentation, improving efficiency on low-power devices. NVIDIA announced enhancements to the TensorRT Model Optimizer for Windows, addressing challenges in model deployment due to limited memory and computational resources. The updates streamline models for ONNX Runtime deployment, utilizing GPU execution providers. The TensorRT-ModelOpt includes advanced quantization algorithms, significantly reducing memory footprint and improving throughput performance on RTX GPUs, achieving up to a 2.6x reduction in memory footprint compared to FP16 models.