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  1. Will Jensen Huang’s Spy Scandal Make Your Next Graphics Card Cheaper?

    Nvidia's CEO admitted an affair. Washington suspects it was more than that, and investors are nervous. So did anyone know before Friday's close?

  2. The AI squeeze on gamers continues into 2027

    A deep dive into the current outlook for gamers and game developers as AI demand reshapes memory, hardware prices and the games business.

  1. NVIDIA says Snapshot restores replicas with nearly 1 TB checkpoints in under 43 seconds

    In NVIDIA's own B200 tests a restore beats a cold start by a wide margin, but the timings leave out container image pulls and need the same GPU…

  2. MSI’s 360Hz MEG X OLED monitor runs its AI features on the display itself

    MSI says the 34-inch 360Hz QD-OLED reads in-game health bars and adjusts crosshairs without PC software. Its announcement gives no price, release date or independent test.

  3. AMD calls its Zen 6 EPYC 9996 the best general-purpose server CPU

    6th Gen EPYC is shipping in servers. AMD's lead over Nvidia's Vera rests on a Vera score AMD estimated itself, while its Xeon and EPYC rows use published…

  4. Microsoft’s Insider Xbox PC app opens up to 60% faster in its own tests

    The faster build is available to Xbox Insiders only, and Microsoft gives no baseline times or test hardware. The web library arrives over the coming weeks, and the…

  5. NVIDIA measures FLUX 3 Klein image generation over three times faster on one B200

    NVIDIA stacks NVFP4, sparse attention and step caching to get there, and tests on data center Blackwell parts with no GeForce numbers. Its image-drift score rises with each…

  6. ASUS announces a USB4 eGPU with a 16GB Radeon RX 9060 XT LP

    ASUS gives no price, date or frame rates for the XG Core, and its USB4 link runs at half the speed of the Thunderbolt 5 dock the company…

  1. How to Check a Seller Before You Buy a GPU or RAM in a Shortage

    When graphics cards and memory are scarce, the cheapest listing is often not a normal shop price. It can be a marketplace seller who has just appeared, an…

  2. GeForce RTX 50 Series Guide: Blackwell Desktop and Laptop GPUs

    The RTX 50 series pairs a real feature jump, GDDR7, PCIe 5.0, DisplayPort 2.1, and DLSS 4 Multi Frame Generation, with a node that did not change and…

  1. GeForce 256: The Card NVIDIA Called the First GPU

    The 1999 card that gave us the word GPU, how it fought Voodoo3 and TNT2, and what collectors pay for one today.

  2. GPU Tech Demos Used to Be Everywhere. What Changed?

    Dawn, Ruby, Stone Giant, Supersonic Sled and UNIGINE Heaven once showcased every new GPU generation. Here is why the standalone graphics tech demo faded away.