Author: GTZ News Desk

The Gaming Brief: Ryzen handheld owners just got a deadline for machine-learning upscaling. AMD’s Jack Huynh, senior vice president and general manager of Computing and Graphics, told South Korean outlet The Elec that FSR 4 will expand beyond Radeon RX 9000 and RX 7000 graphics cards to APUs, gaming laptops and handheld devices before 2026 ends. AMD says the plan covers existing APUs, not only new chips, though no model list has been published. Jack Huynh’s Lightweight FSR 4 Model Is Built for APU Limits Huynh said AMD “newly developed a dedicated model of FSR 4 that is lightweight and…

The Gaming Brief: Just when it looked like PC players had a launch-day workaround for GTA VI, Xbox muddied the waters. The Verge reported that Xbox landed exclusive cloud-streaming rights to Grand Theft Auto VI, which would make Xbox Cloud Gaming the only service able to stream the game when it launches.  Since Xbox Cloud Gaming already runs on PC, phones, and smart TVs through its Game Pass Ultimate tier, the report implied PC owners could stream GTA VI on day one without owning a console at all.  But the relief was short-lived. An executive pushback quickly slammed the door,…

The Gaming Brief: Buying “used” is supposed to save you money. Not at GameStop right now.  A leaked internal memo, confirmed as authentic by moderators on the r/GameStop subreddit, shows the retailer preparing to charge up to $1,499.99 for a pre-owned PS5 Pro, $600 more than Sony’s own $899 price for a brand-new one. With stock sold out, hardware prices are hitting records, mirroring the same wider component shortage that has pushed RTX 5090 above $10,000 on secondary markets. The Memo Explicitly Calls the Markup Intentional As TweakTown notes, citing the leaked document, GameStop’s pricing update hits specific SKUs: the…

The Gaming Brief: Nvidia’s RTX Spark is finally getting a real launch date, and the specs are the kind that make PC gamers do a double take. Satya Nadella, Windows and Devices lead Pavan Davuluri, and NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang will share the stage on October 7 at 10 AM Pacific in San Francisco to formally introduce RTX Spark hardware, with Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra widely expected to headline the reveal.  Nvidia claims its AI-focused superchip pushes 1440p past 100 FPS in modern AAA titles, frame rates normally reserved for desktop GPUs like the RTX 4080 or RTX 5070. A…

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…