➀ AMD's David McAfee acknowledges the unprecedented demand for Radeon RX 9070 series;

➁ AMD is working to restock partners and ensure availability at expected market prices;

➂ McAfee discusses the complexities of the graphics business and AMD's efforts to increase supply of Navi 48.

➀ AMD's desktop GPU shipments increased to 1.43 million units in Q4 2024, its strongest result for the year.

➁ The overall GPU market saw a slight increase in shipments in Q4 2024, but a decline compared to the same quarter in 2023.

➂ Despite a modest Q4, the year 2024 was good for the discrete desktop GPU market, with Nvidia shipping 30.2 million units and AMD shipping 4.42 million units.

➀ A Reddit user has reported a GeForce RTX 5080 FE with fewer ROPs than expected;

➁ This issue is similar to the one previously reported on Zotac GeForce RTX 5090 Solid and GeForce RTX 5070 Ti;

➂ NVIDIA confirms a 'production anomaly' affecting a small number of cards, promising to replace affected units.

➀ Nvidia's GeForce RTX 5080 graphics cards may have only 104 ROPs instead of the advertised 112;

➁ The issue is similar to the one found in the RTX 5090 and RTX 5070 Ti;

➂ Nvidia has confirmed a 0.5% defect rate in the affected GPUs.

➀ A Redditor reports a $2,799 Asus ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 GPU caught on fire due to a capacitor fault.

➁ The incident involved a system shutdown, followed by a restart that resulted in the GPU catching fire and smoke emitting.

➂ The damage is evident on both the graphics card and the motherboard, with burn marks near the capacitor.

➀ Nvidia's GeForce RTX 5080 FE has been reported to have instability issues;

➁ The problem may be related to the multi-PCB design of the card;

➂ PCIe 5.0 signal integrity is suspected to be the cause of the issue.