AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 is incredible, but entirely unnecessary
…In terms of gaming, Tom's Hardware's benchmarks, based on a 17-game geomean, found the dual-cache processor to be only 0.8% faster than the 9950X3D , with a minuscule…
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Valve's Steam Deck didn't just succeed, it quietly changed how PC games are made
Jasmine Mannan Apr 20, 2026, 11:00 AM EDT Jasmine is Software and PC Hardware Author at XDA with years of tech reporting experience ranging from AI chatbots right down to gaming…
My old Google Pixel has replaced half of my smart home products without costing me a penny
Jasmine Mannan May 1, 2026, 3:30 PM EDT Jasmine is Software and PC Hardware Author at XDA with years of tech reporting experience ranging from AI chatbots right down to gaming…
I bought a PCIe riser for aesthetics, and it created a problem nobody warns you about
Jasmine Mannan Apr 4, 2026, 12:00 PM EDT Jasmine is Software and PC Hardware Author at XDA with years of tech reporting experience ranging from AI chatbots right down to gaming…
The best $50 I ever spent on my PC didn't add a single frame to my games
Jasmine Mannan Apr 2, 2026, 7:31 AM EDT Jasmine is Software and PC Hardware Author at XDA with years of tech reporting experience ranging from AI chatbots right down to gaming…
I turned off HAGS and gained back a gigabyte of VRAM with almost no FPS loss
…more consistency under pressure. When it came to the FPS counter, the framerate barely moved. Sure, there was a loss of 3–5 average FPS depending on the game I ran, but…
Don't waste your PC upgrade budget until you've fixed these 3 things first
…Related The best gaming upgrade in 2026 isn't hardware, it's AI upscaling and frame generation DLSS and FSR are improving faster than hardware right now.
Nvidia's groundbreaking VRAM solution only works best on its fastest GPUs
…Related Nvidia's CEO says gamers are "wrong" about DLSS 5's AI slop backlash Welcome to the gaming industry's AI era This isn't something we haven't seen before…
Nvidia's VRAM problem is quietly becoming a software problem, and game developers are the ones being forced to deal with it
…Avoid GPUs with 8GB of VRAM in 2025 They're not enough for today's standards Games aren't as optimized for VRAM as they used to be Optimized games do exist…
My RTX 5090 can't keep up with Apple Silicon on the biggest local LLMs, and I hate to admit it
…for retiring the gaming PC, and none of this is to say that you should go out and purchase a Mac just to run local AI. Local AI is still, by and…