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Mid-range GPUs have largely dodged the memory crisis, but not for much longer

… Asus Prime GeForce RTX 5070 Memory Clock Speed 1750 MHz Architecture Blackwell Process TSMC 4N Shader Units 6144 Ray Accelerators/Cores 48 AI Accelerators/Cores 192 $642 at Amazon Related Don't buy that budget GPU — invest in these PC upgrades instead Get your house in order and save up for a bette… …

Jun 6, 2026 · Tanveer Singh

The worst gaming GPU in your drawer might be your best home server upgrade

… That means a Windows gaming VM can have a real graphics card for display output and light gaming, or a dedicated container can run AI inference workloads without touching the host system. …

May 6, 2026 · Ty Sherback

I replaced ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini on my phone with a local LLM, and it's a mobile upgrade I didn't expect

… Vision is supported with a separate projection model file you download alongside the main one, and the app has GPU acceleration where the hardware supports it. Recent updates added robust Android NNAPI hardware acceleration alongside Apple's Metal framework on iOS. …

May 27, 2026 · Nolen Jonker

Your GPU upscales way more than just games, and old videos look incredible

… For using VSR in your local browser, make sure you have hardware acceleration turned on in the browser's settings. Turning RTX VSR on for Nvidia users is a pretty straightforward affair. …

Apr 30, 2026 · Samarveer Singh

AMD is giving older Radeon cards an unexpected upgrade, but it's a bigger deal than it appears

… It remains unclear, however, how far the FSR 4.1 integration will extend to handheld hardware. Whether the rollout includes frame generation support, the features that come with the "Redstone" ML suite and ray-tracing enhancements remains an open question for now. …

May 22, 2026 · Abhinav Raj

I bought the RX 9070 XT for FSR 4, but the games I actually play don't support it

… Related AMD doesn't want to repeat past mistakes with FSR 4 AMD's AI-assisted FSR 4 releases in a matter of days, and it already has a ton of support. …

May 21, 2026 · Ty Sherback

FSR 4.1 will be the best thing to happen to handheld PCs this year, and the timing couldn't be more perfect

… At this price point, retailing the handheld would be completely unsustainable. …

May 28, 2026 · Abhinav Raj

The gaming mode on your router is a marketing lie — here’s what actually lowers your ping

… Normally, routers use hardware acceleration to bypass the CPU entirely and speed up data transfer. However, by activating a gaming mode or QoS, this can disable this hardware acceleration because the traffic must be routed through the main CPU to be inspected and tagged. …

May 19, 2026 · Jasmine Mannan

Home Assistant's local LLM support outperforms Gemini for Home, and Google knows it

… You still have to wait several hundred milliseconds and still settle for a single point of failure outside your control. Besides, you can’t customize how Gemini sees your home, your devices, or your routines. You’re at the mercy of the model Google chooses and wait for an update if it falls short. …

Apr 28, 2026 · Samir Makwana

FSR 4.1 made older Radeon cards interesting again, but not for the reason AMD wants

… The very foundation of AMD's latest move to support FSR 4.1 on older hardware raises this question. …

Jun 4, 2026 · Abhinav Raj

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