There’s never been a better time to ditch Nvidia GPUs
I’ve bought an Nvidia GPU for every gaming PC I ever built, but I think I’m done giving Team Green my money for the foreseeable future. That feels a bit painful to type because Nvidia…
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Microsoft tests Windows AI features on RTX GPUs, not just NPUs
An under-the-hood change in Windows seems to signal the further deterioration of Microsoft’s Copilot+ branding, which, at least historically, depended solely on NPUs as the engine of local PC AI. Now, PCs with dedicated GPUs…
I tried a skinny RTX 5080. It fixed the worst thing about flagship GPUs
Modern high-end graphics cards are ridiculous. Incredible performance and awesome features, but also extra demanding when it comes to power draw and physical size. Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 5090, for example, is a gigantic card—especially non-Founders…
A Valve engineer’s Linux patch makes 8GB AMD GPUs better at gaming
Is 8GB of VRAM enough for modern PC gaming? That’s the question a lot of people have been asking lately as prices for graphics cards climb higher, and doubly so since the Steam Machine was…
Want to make the most of the new Gemma 4 AI models? RTX GPUs and PCs accelerate local AI like never before
Gemma 4 accelerated by NVIDIA RTX Learn more With the launch of Google’s Gemma 4 family of AI models, AI enthusiasts now have access to a new class of small, fast, and omni-capable AI designed…
New Rowhammer attacks give complete control of machines running Nvidia GPUs
So where do we go now? The researchers said that both the RTX 3060 and RTX 6000 cards are vulnerable. Changing BIOS defaults to enable IOMMU closes the vulnerability, they said. Short for input-output memory…
PC market ‘chaos’ causes slowdown in consumer GPUs
PC graphics shipments grew 2.5 percent last quarter, a report by Jon Peddie Associates found Monday. Data center GPUs, however, grew an average of 145 percent. And that’s the state of the market right now,…
The great NPU failure: Two years later, local AI is still all about GPUs
For the last few years, the term “AI PC” has basically meant little more than “a lightweight portable laptop with a neural processing unit (NPU).” Today, two years after the glitzy launch of NPUs with…
Radeon 6000 GPUs were brand new 3 years ago. AMD’s already dropping support
Update 3:313 PM PT: AMD’s Adrenalin Edition 25.10.2 release notes have been apparently rewritten to note that they are compatible with the RX9000, RX7000, RX6000, and RX5000 series of graphics cards, and do not make…
Interview: Talking laptops and GPUs with Framework’s CEO
Framework is, if you ask me, making the coolest laptops (and now desktops) on the market. The company is now several generations into its completely modular, upgradeable PC designs, available in 12-, 13-, and 16-inch…