AMD officially releases FSR 4.1 for Radeon RX 7000 series GPUs, support for RDNA 3 APUs confirmed too

AMD FSR 4.1 now supports Radeon RX 7000 series GPUs

RDNA 3 APUs are next, but they need lighter ML models.

AMD has now confirmed that FSR Upscaling 4.1 is available for Radeon RX 7000 series graphics cards. This expands AMD’s latest machine learning based upscaler beyond the Radeon RX 9000 series.

According to AMD, the update brings FSR 4.1 to millions of more players across more than 300 games. The company says it currently

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Windows 11 26H2 confirmed, 26H1 devices will not get this update

Windows 11 26H2 will be a small update for 24H2 and 25H2 PCs

26H1 uses a different Windows core.

Microsoft has confirmed Windows 11 version 26H2, the next annual update for Windows 11. The release is already available to Windows Insiders through the Experimental channel, with wider testing planned later through Release Preview.

For most existing Windows 11 systems, this will not be a full OS upgrade. Microsoft says Windows 11 26

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LG Display reportedly joins ASUS ROG gaming monitor panel supply chain

LG Display supplies ASUS 24.5-inch 540Hz OLED monitor

LG Display is now reportedly part of ASUS’s gaming monitor panel supply chain, with the company supplying OLED panels for ASUS’s new ROG Strix OLED XG259QWPG Ace.

This does not appear to be new confirmation of the panel used by this specific monitor. ASUS announced the XG259QWPG Ace at Computex as a 24.5-inch Full HD Tandem WOLED monitor with a 540Hz

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ASUS ROG Astral RTX 5090 Edition 20 priced at €5,799 in Europe

ASUS confirms ROG Edition 20 pricing for Europe

DACH pricing confirms first ROG 20th anniversary products for June and July.

ASUS has confirmed pricing and availability for the first ROG Edition 20 products in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The lineup is part of the Republic of Gamers 20th anniversary series, which ASUS showed at Computex 2026.

The DACH list includes the ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 32GB GDDR7 OC Edition 20 at €5,799,

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Dbrand launches Companion Cube enclosure for Steam Machine, “Poverty Cube” option costs $99.95

Valve’s Steam Machine gets a Portal-style Companion Cube enclosure from dbrand

The cube now gets another cube.

Dbrand has opened preorders for its Companion Cube enclosure for Valve’s upcoming Steam Machine. The accessory turns Valve’s compact SteamOS PC into a Portal-style Companion Cube.

This is not just a vinyl skin. dbrand calls it an enclosure, with separate panels, screws, magnets, ventilation cutouts and LED pass-through. The design keeps the rear I/O and exhaust area open, while

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Valve leaks FSR 4.1 for RDNA 3 and RDNA 3.5 GPUs through Proton Experimental

AMD planned RDNA 3 support for July, but Valve may have pushed the files early

FSR 4.1 file works with RDNA 3 and RDNA 3.5 GPUs

Valve appears to have pushed an early FSR 4.1 build through Proton Experimental. The file was spotted in the Proton Experimental depot, but the manifest was reportedly removed shortly after it appeared.

That may explain why the file could not be downloaded through Steam Console earlier when I was preparing our previous post . The depot was visible, but access to the specific

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Qualcomm preparing Snapdragon X2 Refresh with Kalambo, Mahua and Glymur variants

Snapdragon X2 refresh appears in OEM roadmap next to NVIDIA N1 update

Kalambo, Mahua and Glymur refresh codenames.

According to Reptalica, no new codenames for the next Snapdragon X series have appeared yet. Instead, the upcoming lineup is said to use refreshed versions of existing X2 codenames: Kalambo Refresh, Mahua Refresh and Glymur Refresh. The same source claims Kalambo uses the same die as Mahua, while Glymur remains a separate die.

Haven't saw new codenames for Snapdragon X series, so it won't

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AORUS RTX 5090 owner checks GPU after higher fan speeds, finds thermal gel mess

How much thermal gel is too much?

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A GeForce RTX 5090 AORUS owner has opened the card after more than a year of use (and end of warranty) and found a large amount of factory-applied thermal material inside the cooler. The Redditor claims the card was mounted horizontally, which should reduce the chance of thermal gel moving due to gravity.

Factory thermal material replaced with PTM7950

According to the post by “Correct_Difference72

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AMD has reportedly released FSR 4 for RDNA3 GPUs in Valve Proton Experimental

Valve adds AMD FSR4 DLL to Proton Experimental

AMD FSR4 appears to be coming to Valve’s Proton Experimental. The change was spotted by Brad Lynch, who found AMD’s FSR4 DLL in Steam files linked to Proton Experimental.

I told you so. As soon as we saw experiemental FSR4 flags in Valve files it was obvious taht Valve is working with AMD to bring newer upscaling support. That work now appears to have landed in Proton Experimental, with the FSR4 DLL added to Valve’s

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NVIDIA Blackwell-Next name spotted in Linux kernel patch

Linux 7.2 prepares CXL path for NVIDIA Blackwell-Next GPUs

NVIDIA engineers are already preparing Linux support for hardware listed as “Blackwell-Next.”

The name appears in a Linux kernel patch for the NVGrace-GPU VFIO driver. The change adds a CXL DVSEC-based readiness check for Blackwell-Next GPUs, while keeping the existing BAR0 polling path for current Grace Blackwell hardware.

Blackwell-Next appears in Linux VFIO driver

The patch is part of the VFIO subsystem work for the Linux 7.2 cycle

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