Nvidia's groundbreaking VRAM solution only works best on its fastest GPUs
…It will require a GPU's AI and high-performance computing cores instead of the CUDA cores or Stream Processors. Now, something like an RTX 2070 Super may have 8GB VRAM and…
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Intel's $949 GPU has 32GB of VRAM for local AI, but the software is why Nvidia keeps winning
…32GB of VRAM is a lot, and it's a step above what most other high-end GPUs on the market can do right now. On top of that, Intel also claims…
Ollama is still the easiest way to start local LLMs, but it's the worst way to keep running them
…If you want even more performance, ik_llama.cpp is a fork that pushes CPU and multi-GPU performance further, with three or four times speed improvements in some multi-GPU configurations…
PCIe 5.0 SSDs promised speed, but they mostly deliver heat
…decent NVMe drive, so performance is mostly identical. In the vast majority of cases, your frame rates, frame times, and overall responsiveness are dictated by your CPU, GPU, and RAM, not how…
I bought a 12,000MB/s SSD for gaming and learned an expensive lesson about bottlenecks
…But when you see a drive that advertises 14,900MB/s, roughly twice what the best Gen 4 drives claimed, it's hard not to expect some kind of noticeable real-world…
MacBook Neo review: Apple nails the basics at a low price
…giant's A18 Pro chip, with a 6-core CPU comprising two performance cores, four efficiency cores, and a 5-core GPU. RAM starts at 8GB, followed by 256GB of storage. The…
I turned this $55 Raspberry Pi into the ultimate streaming device
…Pi's VideoCore VI GPU doesn't support H.265 hardware decoding. So any transcoding attempts cause the entire CPU to fail. Make sure Jellyfin is set to direct play, and use…
By the time the Steam Machine ships, it will have already lost the market it was supposed to own
…Challenge Complete Your Score / 8 Thanks for playing! The semi-custom nature of the CPU and GPU doesn't mean AMD engineered new silicon for Valve, so the expected performance of the…
Steam Machine Verified just made the mini PC the most interesting gaming device of 2026
…It pairs a Zen 5 six-core CPU with an RDNA 3 GPU with 28 compute units, along with 16GB of RAM, 8GB of VRAM, and either 512GB or 2TB of storage…
Nintendo built the 3DS to be unhackable, but a $5 puzzle game and a QR code proved them wrong
…From there, the exploit used a ROP chain to call gspwn, a technique that abused the GPU's DMA capabilities to write arbitrary data to memory regions the CPU couldn't normally…