$95M 500-Megawatt Power Substation Built for Intel Sits Idle | Modded 800W Nvidia RTX 5090 Beats RTX Pro 6000 in Tests

Power utility built $95 million 500-megawatt power substation for Intel's $100 billion Ohio fab, but six-year delay leaves substation capable of powering 500,000 homes idle | Nvidia RTX 5090 beats RTX Pro 6000 in tests after shunt mod to a staggering 800W - consumer flagship barely scrapes past the $10,000 Pro despite eye-watering power modification | Amazon Prime Day is just around the corner, but Samsung's 2TB 990 Pro SSD is already selling for $149 Created for yeasinn1.tech@blogger.com | Web Version June 24, 2025 CONNECT WITH TOM'S HARDWARE       SIGN UP ⋅   SHARE Big News Power utility built $95 million 500-megawatt power substation for Intel's $100 billion Ohio fab, but six-year delay leaves substation capable of powering 500,000 homes idle Quite badly. Nvidia RTX 5090 beats RTX Pro 6000 in tests after shunt mod to a staggering 800W - consumer flagship barely scrapes past the $10,000 Pro despite eye-watering power modification The performance increase looks poor compared to the increased power consumption, though. Deals Amazon Prime Day is just around the corner, but Samsung's 2TB 990 Pro SSD is already selling for $149 Still one of the fastest Gen 4 SSDs for PC CPUs Intel details 18A process technology - takes on TSMC 2nm with 30% density gain and 25% faster generational performance Highlights major performance, power, and density improvements enabled by RibbonFET transistors and PowerVia backside power delivery Graphics Chinese AI firm DeepSeek reportedly using shell companies to try and evade U.S. chip restrictions - allegedly procured unknown number of H100 AI GPUs after ban, but Nvidia denies the claim Nvidia says DeepSeek lawfully acquired H800 chips, not H100 Components Nvidia GPU owners may be losing performance because of a simple setting that's disabled by default - enabling Resizable Bar with Profile Inspector can enhance GPU performance by up to 10% in 3DMark Some applications still benefit from manually enabling ReBAR. Gigabyte's latest RGB firmware upgrade is bricking some motherboards, including Z790 series - dynamic lighting and RGB failures, rogue CPU fan usages, and more reported Users warn against installing the IT5701/5702 update Disabling Intel Graphics Security Mitigations boosts compute performance - 20% uplift from setting change that even Intel employs, despite unknown security risk Intel's GPU architectures are just as sensitive to performance variations from security mitigations as its CPUs. Rubin telescope to collect up to 500,000 TB of data from 3,200-megapixel camera over ten years - each image is 6.4 GB, facility has its own data center for data storage More data than you can shake a stick of memory at. Nintendo Switch 2 motherboards with chips are already available for $124 in China - PCBs sourced directly from the production line Nintendo Japan charges $175 to repair or replace the Switch 2's PCB. Sign Up  |    Update Profile  |    Unsubscribe Privacy Policy  |    Cookies Policy  |    Terms and Conditions CONTACT US: FEEDBACK  |    ADVERTISE Future US LLC © Full 7th Floor, 130 West 42nd Street, New York, NY, 10036