GeForce RTX

NVIDIA unveiled DLSS 5 in March as its biggest graphics leap since ray tracing, promising it to AAA names like Starfield and Resident Evil Requiem. Its actual September 3 debut lands in NBA 2K27 instead.

NVIDIA's Gamescom 2026 announcements ranged from DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction reaching general availability to RTX Spark picking up EA, Embark and Ubisoft as partners. The standout is RTX Mega Geometry, six years in development, which finally lets Unreal Engine 5's Nanite detail show up correctly in ray tracing, debuting in Gears of War: E-Day.

Mortal Shell II, The Sinking City 2, and the indie ARPG Luminary all launched with the full DLSS 4.5 stack this week, a sign the feature set has become standard kit across budgets, not just flagship releases.

The ROG Strix G18 (2026) pairs an Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus with an RTX 5070 Ti, dual Thunderbolt 5 and an 18-inch 300Hz Nebula panel for PHP 244,995. We benchmarked six games in CapFrameX and logged every sensor to find out where the Philippine SKU's 16GB of RAM actually costs you.

GIGABYTE has confirmed Philippine pricing across its full AORUS RTX 50 INFINITY lineup, from PHP 68,510 for the RTX 5070 INFINITY up to PHP 134,260 for the RTX 5080 INFINITY WOOD, turning July's flagship launch into a full four-card tier.

Palit's RTX 5060 Ti lineup spreads across three variants, Dual, White and Infinity 3, but they all share the same NVIDIA Blackwell silicon, DLSS 4.5 and Reflex 2 features. The real differences come down to cooling, styling and VRAM configuration rather than raw capability, with no pricing yet confirmed for the Philippine market.

Halo: Campaign Evolved launched this week with full DLSS support out of the gate, headlining one of NVIDIA's busiest weeks of 2026 for game updates. Mistfall Hunter, Corsair Cove, Killing Floor 3 and Palworld all picked up DLSS 4.5 upgrades alongside a new GeForce Game Ready Driver and early access to the Gears of War: E-Day beta.

GIGABYTE's AORUS MASTER 16 GEN 2 launches in the Philippines July 30, led by an RTX 5090 configuration priced at PHP 299,995. The marketing centers less on gaming specs and more on GiMATE, an onboard AI agent that codes and generates images.

Gears of War: E-Day launches October 6 with day-one DLSS 4.5 support on GeForce RTX systems. Built on Unreal Engine 5, the origin-story prequel adds ray-traced lighting, real-time destruction, and larger set pieces, plus an Open Beta starting August 6 for pre-order customers and PC Game Pass subscribers.

Gainward's five GPU product families, Phantom, Phoenix, Ghost, Python and Pegasus, cover NVIDIA RTX 30 through RTX 50 series cards. The 40-year-old brand's Golden Sample heritage and consistent thermal engineering separate it from sibling brand Palit, which sells the same underlying silicon.

GIGABYTE has launched the AORUS GeForce RTX 5080 INFINITY 16G and INFINITY WOOD 16G. The two cards bring an aerospace turbine design with optional wood-grain styling, WINDFORCE Hyperburst cooling with a concealed third fan and Project Stealth cable routing to the RTX 5080 platform.