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Something worth knowing if you have an NVIDIA RTX graphics card — announced at Computex 2026 last week.

NVIDIA revealed DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction, the final major update to the DLSS 4.5 package. It arrives in August 2026 as a free download through the NVIDIA App and is compatible with every GeForce RTX GPU from the 20-series onwards.

A quick explainer on what Ray Reconstruction actually does. When a GPU renders a ray-traced scene, it cannot physically cast a ray at every pixel — doing so would be impossibly slow. The gaps left behind create visual noise. Ray Reconstruction uses a neural network to fill in those gaps more intelligently than traditional hand-tuned denoisers, producing cleaner lighting, sharper reflections, and more stable images overall.

The new second-generation model brings 35% more compute capability and processes 20% more parameters, all while maintaining similar runtime performance to the version it replaces. In plain terms: better image quality, same frame rate impact.

At launch in August, 27 games will support DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction natively, including Cyberpunk 2077, Alan Wake 2, Doom: The Dark Ages, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, Resident Evil Requiem, and the new MMO Cinder City. NVIDIA is also bringing the feature to Blender 5.3 in autumn, helping 3D artists preview ray-traced scenes in real time without lengthy viewport re-stabilisation delays.

One notable absence at Computex: DLSS 5. After a controversial reveal at GTC 2026 earlier this year — where many gamers and developers pushed back on the visual direction — NVIDIA made no mention of it last week. Whether it has been cancelled or reworked remains unclear.

For anyone building a new PC or upgrading a current system, this update reinforces why an RTX GPU remains the most versatile choice for both gaming and creative work. DLSS 4.5 across the full RTX stack is a genuinely strong software ecosystem.

Every Ginger6 build is configured with drivers and DLSS settings handled from the start.

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Source: Tom's Hardware / TechSpot / Neowin / PC Gamer / eTeknix — 1 June 2026

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AMD made several announcements at Computex 2026 today. None of them involved next-gen chips, but there is still plenty worth paying attention to.

The headline is the Ryzen 7 5800X3D 10th Anniversary Edition. AMD is relaunching the chip that first brought 3D V-Cache to desktop gaming, celebrating ten years of the AM4 platform. The Anniversary Edition launches on 25 June at $349 (approximately £285) and includes a Carbice carbon nanotube thermal pad. The chip uses the same Zen 3 silicon as the original 5800X3D: eight cores, 96MB total cache, and compatibility with every AMD 400 and 500-series AM4 motherboard. If you are on an older AM4 board and want a meaningful performance upgrade without buying a new platform, this is a legitimate option.

The second announcement worth noting: FSR 4.1 is coming to RDNA 3 GPUs in July 2026. FSR 4 was previously only available on RDNA 4 hardware (RX 9000-series). Extending it to RDNA 3 means anyone on an RX 7600, 7700 XT, 7800 XT, 7900 XT, or 7900 XTX will get access to AMD's improved ML-based upscaling model, which offers noticeably better image quality than FSR 3.x. That is a meaningful free upgrade for a lot of existing Radeon users.

Third: AMD introduced EXPO Ultra Low Latency, a new memory certification standard launching with certified DDR5 kits in June. AMD claims it delivers an average 4% FPS improvement over standard EXPO and 13% over base JEDEC speeds across more than 30 games. Not a headline number, but relevant for anyone building or upgrading with DDR5.

There were no Zen 6 or RDNA 5 announcements. AMD's messaging today was deliberately practical, focused on backward compatibility and value.

At Ginger6, we build on both AM4 and AM5 platforms. If the returning 5800X3D has your attention, or you want to know where it fits compared to the Ryzen 7 9800X3D on AM5, we are happy to have that conversation.

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Source: HotHardware / CGMagazine / Tom's Hardware — 3 June 2026

This was announced hours ago at Computex 2026 in Taipei, and it is worth knowing about.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang unveiled the RTX Spark at his keynote the company's first consumer chip with integrated CPU cores in over a decade, and a direct challenge to Apple's M-series, Qualcomm's Snapdragon X, and AMD's Strix Halo.

The RTX Spark is an Arm-based system-on-chip developed in collaboration with MediaTek. It combines 20 Arm Grace CPU cores with a Blackwell GPU featuring 6,144 CUDA cores the same GPU architecture that powers the RTX 5090 desktop card. NVIDIA says the integrated GPU performance is equivalent to a discrete RTX 5070. The chip supports up to 128GB of unified LPDDR5X memory running at 300 GB/s bandwidth.

Confirmed launch partners include Dell, HP, ASUS, Lenovo, MSI, and Microsoft. Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra announced alongside RTX Spark, the flagship device, featuring a 14mm chassis and a tandem OLED G-Sync display. Devices arrive in fall 2026.

NVIDIA's own words: "the most efficient PC chip ever built." Jensen Huang compared the announcement to the original iPhone transition to smartphone.

For desktop PC builders, the picture does not change in 2026. RTX Spark is a laptop chip. If you want Blackwell on a desktop, that still means a discrete RTX 50-series GPU in a proper desktop build.

At Ginger6, we have been building around RTX 50-series all year. If you want the performance of Blackwell in a machine that actually sits on your desk, this is still how you get it.

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Source: Tom's Hardware / Tom's Guide / TechRadar / CNBC — 1 June 2026