October 26, 2026
Leaked video of a Chinese factory mass-converting Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 cards for AI servers
The video shows three-fan coolers removed, the GPU and VRAM moved to a separate PCB, and blower-style two-slot coolers fitted. Consumer RTX 5090 stock is virtually non-existent in the US and elsewhere.
October 22, 2026
Nvidia GeForce 621.01 WHQL, a GPU driver with Advanced Shader Delivery support
Adds Advanced Shader Delivery support for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 and Gears of War: E-Day. It covers RTX 20 to 50 series GPUs and works with games downloaded via the Xbox PC app.
October 18, 2026
Nvidia DLSS 5 with a revamped neural rendering model
Nvidia says the new NR model is 24% smaller, uses 20% less VRAM at 4K, and processes neural workloads up to 2x faster. Modders tested it on unsupported games and saw up to 90% better performance than the old model in The Witcher 3.
October 15, 2026
NVIDIA RTX Spark, a next-gen PC platform with expanding app, game, and AI model support
Local-AI model Nemotron 3.5 Bolt, the PAIR release, Broadcast 2.3 and DLSS 5 are supported, while Adobe and Blender apps are being optimized.
October 14, 2026
Leak suggests Nvidia RTX 5090 high-end GPU is being discontinued
Leaker zed__wang posted that GB202 supply for the RTX 5090 is ending and will be exclusive to RTX Pro. Nvidia has not commented officially.
October 13, 2026
NVIDIA RTX Spark, a Windows PC chip with up to 1 petaflop of AI performance
Combines a Blackwell RTX GPU with a Grace CPU and up to 128GB of unified memory. Developed with Microsoft to run AI agents locally on Windows.
October 7, 2026
NVIDIA GeForce 617.42 Driver, a graphics driver supporting CoD MW4 and other new titles
This WHQL-certified driver supports DLSS 4.5 in CoD MW4, Star Wars: Galactic Racer and other new titles, and fixes a crash issue in Assassin's Creed Shadows.
