Author: GTZ News Desk

The Gaming Brief: AMD has started preparing its open-source AMDGPU Linux driver to recognize GDDR7 memory, according to VideoCardz, which cited a patch submitted by AMD engineer Frank Min and reviewed by Hawking Zhang. The change adds “GDDR7” to the driver’s list of supported VRAM types, sitting alongside GDDR6, HBM3E, and HBM4 entries. Current Radeon RX 9000 “RDNA 4” cards use GDDR6, while Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 50 series already runs GDDR7, making this patch the clearest signal yet that Team Red is moving to match its rival.  Arriving Alongside RDNA 5-Linked Hardware Blocks As VideoCardz details, AMD hasn’t linked the…

The Gaming Brief: If you’ve been holding off on a GPU purchase hoping Nvidia’s next generation is right around the corner, the wait just got longer. Leaker kopite7kimi, who has a strong track record on Nvidia hardware, says the Rubin-architecture RTX 60 series, internally codenamed GR20x, is “a product from 2028,” walking back an earlier estimate of late 2027. Nvidia hasn’t confirmed any RTX 60-series timeline, but if this holds, the practical takeaway is simple: buying a graphics card today means locking into a two-year hold until 2028 Kopite7kimi’s GR20x Timeline Breaks Nvidia’s Two-Year Rhythm Nvidia has historically launched new…

The Gaming Brief: Valve has enabled NVIDIA’s GPU driver in the main development tree of SteamOS, according to Valve software engineer Pierre-Loup Griffais, speaking to IGN.  That milestone lets certain GeForce GPU generations initialize and display an image under the OS for the first time, since SteamOS has until now been effectively AMD-only. Griffais was clear that this is early-stage progress, not a finished, user-ready driver. Pierre-Loup Griffais Confirms a Performance Rift Still Separates SteamOS From Windows Griffais described a “little bit of a rift” between where Valve’s current NVIDIA driver implementation sits and the state-of-the-art performance NVIDIA GPUs achieve…

The Gaming Brief: NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 5090 has become nearly impossible to find at its official $1,999 MSRP, with third-party listings on Newegg, Amazon, and European retailers now stretching past $10,000, per Tweak Town.  Best Buy shows the card entirely out of stock, and the cheapest available unit on Newegg, an MSI Ventus model, still runs $6,549. With upgrade costs reaching enterprise levels, gamers are being forced to extend existing hardware lifecycles, putting long-term hardware longevity and component degradation back at the center of PC building discussions.  RTX 5090 Scarcity Traces Back to AI Server Demand, Not an Official Price…

The Gaming Brief: Valve launched the Steam Frame on September 14, 2026 with a randomized reservation system rather than open pre-orders, pricing the 256GB kit at $1,059 and the 1TB kit at $1,299.  Both ship with two controllers and Half-Life: Alyx, run SteamOS 3 on a 4nm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 with 16GB LPDDR5X, and include a 6GHz wireless adapter.  However, the headset does not ship with a power supply, a cost-cutting omission that leaves buyers relying on existing 45W USB-C chargers or purchasing Valve’s $29 adapter separately. Foveated Streaming Is the Feature Reviewers Consistently Single Out Valve’s foveated streaming…

The Gaming Brief: Apple is reportedly building its own game controllers for iPhone, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who corroborated code references first spotted by a MacRumors reader in a macOS 26.7 release candidate. The two devices, labeled T6502 and T1057, feature dual thumbsticks, shoulder buttons, a D pad, and haptic motors. Gurman reports that Beats executives are overseeing the project, suggesting the controllers may launch under the Beats name, a strategy that could align with Apple’s push into affordable hardware. Beats Branding Would Mark a Pricing Strategy Shift From Apple’s Backbone Partnership Apple currently sells third-party controllers like Backbone…