Nvidia announces the RTX 4080 and RTX 4090 GPUs; the RTX 4090 is 2-4x faster than the 3090 Ti, comes with 24GB GDDR6X memory, and arrives October 12 for $1,600 (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Tom Warren / The Verge:
Nvidia is “unlaunching” the recently announced 12GB RTX 4080 after backlash, says the graphics card sharing the 4080 designation with RTX 4080 16GB is confusing  —  Nvidia is pausing the launch of its upcoming 12GB RTX 4080 graphics card.  After originally unveiling the 12GB RTX 4080 …

Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:
Review of the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX and XT: the XTX beats the Nvidia RTX 4080 for $200 less, except in power efficiency and ray tracing, and the XT comes close  —  New $899 and $999 GPUs maintain the status quo in the Nvidia-AMD rivalry.  —  Nvidia’s RTX 4080 and 4090 GPUs are amazing performers.

Tom Warren / The Verge:
Nvidia RTX 4080 review: great 4K performance, transformative DLSS 3, and 16GB of VRAM, but huge, expensive, and the dongle adapter is annoying  —  Nvidia is back with another new 40-series card.  The RTX 4080 can deliver impressive 4K gaming compared to the RTX 30-series.

Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft announces a “Fall 2022 Event” for October 12, where it will “talk about devices”, amid rumors of a Surface Pro 9, Surface Laptop 5, and more  —  Microsoft is holding a Surface event next month.  The software giant is officially labeling the event …

Tom Warren / The Verge:
Logitech unveils the $350 Android-powered G Cloud Gaming Handheld with a 7″ display, Snapdragon 720G, and Xbox and GeForce Now cloud gaming, arriving October 17  —  Logitech is officially announcing its G Cloud Gaming Handheld today after a teaser and a leak last month.

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Google announces Chrome will get a Memory Saver mode, which promises to cut memory usage by up to 30%, and an Energy Saver mode, rolling out in the coming weeks  —  Google today announced two new performance settings in its Chrome browser: Memory Saver and Energy Saver.