AMD confirms Radeon RX 7000 series will not use the 12VHPWR connector
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Nvidia investigating the issue

After the initial drama about Nvidia's implementation of the 12VHPWR connector on the Geforce RTX 4090, AMD has officially confirmed that its upcoming Radeon RX 7000 series will not use the same connector.

Nvidia’s rebadging causes confusion amongst speculators
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Unclear what is being rebadged 

The GPU maker named after a Roman pizza with sausages, truffles and potatoes (pictured) is creating some confusion amongst gamers about the branding of its latest and greatest cards.

Gigabyte also jumps on the Intel Arc train
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Starts with custom Arc A380/A310 cards

Following the likes of ASRock, ASUS, MSI, and other partners, Gigabyte is now joining the Intel Arc party, and according to a few leaked EEC filings, we will see at least five SKUs, based on A380 and A310 GPUs.

Nvidia’s RTX 4090 good for cracking passwords
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Hashcat positively purrs 

Security researcher, Sam Croley claims that Nvidia’s RTX 4090 graphics card is rather good at cracking passwords.

Nvidia decides to cancel the RTX 4080 12GB
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Only the RTX 4080 16GB launches on November 16th

Nvidia has decided to cancel the RTX 4080 12GB and possibly relaunch it under a different name at a later date. This is not a big surprise considering the RTX 4080 12GB raised a lot of eyebrows back when it was announced.