Recently I've been looking for a new laptop and they do not exist: all laptops are OUTDATED, and YouTube offered a nice video about it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyhqrZQ93Tc
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Blender is preparing DLSS upscaling, made from NVIDIA RTX Overdrive library. It will make rendering nearly instant on modern GPUs.

And it will make Radeon and Intel GPUs yet again pointless for Blender.

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By the way, why do they call it DLSS in Blender, it's NRD:

https://github.com/NVIDIA-RTX/NRD

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Evolving backwards

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NVIDIA drivers year

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Wait, since when does NVIDIA mention Godot Engine in their changelog?

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NVIDIA almost silently returned the 32-bit PhysX support on the RTX 50 series:

Which means, Batman Arkham, Mirrors Edge, Borderlands 2, and many other games can now run properly.

(It works on 591.44 by the way)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3uqiBB27hg
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Just tried it out: I can confirm that Mirror's Edge works well with NVIDIA Driver 591.44 on an RT50 series card (but require a fix for their frame smoothing in the config file, or it stucks at 62FPS).

PhysX causes no frame drops at all now. The frame rate is stable at all times.

According to what I found, they are more or less emulating it now, since the architecture doesn't support it. Which lowers the basic FPS from (for example) 350-400 to 250-300 range, but then it remains stable within this new range.

The system utility inside the control panel and GPU-Z are both still can't see any PhysX compatible hardware, but the GPU emulates it on the fly.

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Been there, wild times!

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If you have a recent NVIDIA RTX card, there's a DLSS Override in NVIDIA App that allows you to replace DLSS binaries safely in supported apps.

It made several games much sharper, but didn't work well in Cyberpunk 2077. The game has a unique DLSS, trained on their own data, so the replacement makes image quality worse.

But most of the supported games (even fairly new Dying Light The Beast) became much clearer. It also compensates a lot of TAA artifacts and ghosting without any changes to TAA settings.

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NVIDIA Deprecated NVENC presets and broke compatibility with dozens of video editing apps, making it impossible to use hardware acceleration.

The majority of older versions will not be updated, so the only way is to get older NVIDIA drivers instead.

This amazing update also broke several streaming tools and VR streaming as well.

https://docs.nvidia.com/video-technologies/video-codec-sdk/13.0/deprecation-notices/index.html

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Have you met people who told you that cloud gaming will be a good option? Cloud services are never client-oriented, bois...

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It's a good one: the NVIDIA App has no unique features by itself, most of you don't need it and it's better to keep only the Control Panel. Oddly enough, there's a lightweight alternative!

— It will not increase the average FPS by any noticeable value, but it will help with performance dips and overall privacy.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hqfutB69rmE
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And all the most popular graphics cards are not having sufficient VRAM for AAA games (3080 10GB and 5070 12GB are the most powerful among the first 20). Despite the developers push to higher and higher VRAM consumption and using unique textures for literally everything.

Fortunately, Radeon market share grew from 15.2% in mid-2024 to 18.5% by late 2025. Intel stays the same, since they only released B580 and B570, which wasn't enough to noticeably fill the market.

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121 times (CES)

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Fortunately, they still do stuff for gamers: first and only worthy backlight strobing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXwXGYhi8_I
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Wait, it's real: 5070 Ti 16GB and 5060 Ti 16GB are discontinued and at best you can aim for 5070 12GB.

The limit will last at least for Q1 of 2026, but could continue as long as the memory shortage will last. But Asus is saying "these models will likely never return".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yteN21aJEvE
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Sounds horrible...

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According to our sources, ASUS killed and ate their PR representative who told Hardware Unboxed that GPUs will be discontinued and will never return. So he will never return as well. Sad story!

NVIDIA also declined allegations that these cards are completely discontinued and clarified that they are experiencing complications with supply and demand, but not like they gave up on gaming bros. NVIDIA simply supplies AI data centers, while gamers demand cards, but will not get any.

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And don't ask why!

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