Owners report Lenovo's N3CN42WW BIOS leaving first-generation Legion Go handhelds unbootable, NVIDIA becomes the fourth premier sponsor of LVFS, and Proton 11.0-2 lands as a release candidate.
Week ending August 3: the GeForce channel stayed quiet after 610.88, so NVIDIA's news came from the corporate blog instead, from cloud streaming to the CPU it uses to design its own chips.
The first edition of a weekly digest of NVIDIA's own GeForce announcements. This one catches up on July 2026: three R610 drivers, DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction due in August, the RTX Spark mini-workstation, and NVIDIA App capture upgrades, with every claim linked back to NVIDIA's own post and separated into shipped now versus promised later.
In 2016 I replaced my GTX 980 with a GTX 1080 the moment it launched, because the gap made the decision for me. In 2026 I own an RTX 4090, the RTX 5090 is a quarter to a third faster at prices near double its MSRP, and for the first time in my years of building PCs the right upgrade is none. Here is my read on how we got here, with the numbers.
