$3,000 RTX 5090 delivery brings rocks, a towel, and broken dreams — unboxing nightmare on an expensive GPU bought from Amazon Resale

A customer who ordered an MSI Suprim RTX 5090 worth at least $3,000 was scammed out of their money when they received a box filled with rocks instead. The story shared on Reddit highlights another entrant in the long line …

Zotac reportedly cancels GPU orders and raises MSRP by $200 or more across the board — the company blames ‘system error’ for cancellations

Zotac is said to have hiked prices on multiple Nvidia RTX GPUs, with one user claiming that the company canceled their order before the MSRP increase.

Customer buys ROG Astral RTX 5080, cancels order but receives GPU and $1,850 refund anyway — Amazon tells him to keep GPU and the $1,850 refund

Amazon ended up shipping an RTX 5080 that the customer had already been refunded for. The cancelled order was received by a lucky Redditor who was told to keep the GPU worth $1,850 along with the original refund money, mar…

AMD ROCm CES 2026 press Q&A roundtable transcript — ‘ROCm from 2023 is completely unrecognizable to ROCm today’ company details, as it seeks to break down barriers to AI development

We had the opportunity to sit down with AMD at CES 2026 for a press roundtable discussion, where we discussed ROCm and other AMD software, as captured in this transcript of AMD’s Q&A session.

Your next budget workstation GPU may be Intel Arc Pro B70

Intel Arc Pro B70 is shaping up as a straightforward answer to a common workstation headache, running out of VRAM at the worst time. A new leak points to a launch soon, with the card described as the first shipping product built on Intel’s larger Battl…

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to visit China as company prepares to start H200 shipments to the country — plans to meet with state officials unclear despite Beijing curbs on the chip

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is heading to China in late January for a customary Lunar New Year visit that has taken on outsized importance, as it coincides with negotiations over how many H200 AI GPUs Beijing will allow into t…

Unlucky customer buys RTX 5080, receives relabelled RTX 5060 Ti in the box instead — GPU was sold and shipped by Amazon, hinting at return switcheroo

An Asus Prime RTX 5060 Ti was swapped for the RTX 5080 the customer actually ordered, with reapplied stickers to add another layer of deception. The malpractice is easy to spot as the 5060 Ti has a single 8-pin connector, …

DRAM shortage fuels fake GPU scams as China-based fraudsters exploit the supply crisis — RTX 4080 GPU sold at cut price was actually an RTX 3060 mobile chip with fake VRAM

Chinese GPU repair shop exposes massive fraud operation selling counterfeit GeForce RTX 40-series cards on the secondhand market.