… The very foundation of AMD's latest move to support FSR 4.1 on older hardware raises this question. Naturally, it can be argued that Team Red wants more people to opt into its ecosystem that's locked horns with Nvidia in more ways than one. …
… Delaying your updates has become the smart strategy The safest early adopter today is the person who waits In 2026, seeing Windows and Nvidia consistently roll out updates that more often than not affect performance negatively, the right call to make when you see a new update is to simply wait. …
… Hardware gains are becoming much harder to deliver today, and the Steam Survey offers perhaps the clearest evidence yet that this strategy is working. …
… The RTX 50 feels like a public beta: clever AI features launched unfinished and software defines the gen. Next gen needs a real ecosystem: developers must ship path tracing support or the upgrades feel hollow. …
… The consumer arm of AMD Radeon is certainly borrowing an identity, and the problem with its reactive strategy is that it does not serve to build identity, but rather build a catalog of features that look impressive but are always behind. …
… With the Surface Laptop Ultra, it's clear that Microsoft is confident in what Nvidia is bringing to the ecosystem, and an additional chipmaker entering the fray will almost certainly push adoption and compatibility of Windows on Arm further than before. …
… I've tested local LLMs on an Intel Arc A770, and it doesn't help that Intel hasn't really worked out its AI strategy yet when it comes to local tooling. Even its AI Super Builder , available on some Intel laptops, felt like a half-baked experience. …
… It's impressive, but read between the lines: we're several years into the LLM craze, and if that kind of run can still be newsworthy, it tells you how CUDA-first the training world remains. The broader ecosystem also moves CUDA-first. New models? CUDA first. AI software packages? …
… Related 8 trends that will sound the death knell for gaming PCs The road ahead for PC hardware is dark and full of terrors Software is starting to matter more than the hardware itself Free upgrades are good, until they become the main selling point As much as I appreciate getting free performance a… …
… It's a $3,800 AI workstation running Arm Linux with 6,144 CUDA cores the same count as an RTX 5070 and 128GB of unified memory. The machine was designed to serve language models, not render frames, so it kind of went against the entire idea behind that chip. …