I upgraded to DDR5, but my gaming experience barely changed
…games aren't pushing memory bandwidth hard enough for it to matter. At 4K and even 1440p in many cases, the primary bottleneck is still your GPU. If your card is already…
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You don't need an expensive GPU to run a local LLM that actually works
…Intel processors That's right! Apple Silicon's unified memory architecture means the CPU and GPU share the same high-bandwidth memory pool. A MacBook with 16GB or 32GB of unified RAM…
DRAM prices have tripled, and three products are paying the price
…The GPU market is facing a unique crisis where the memory which is being used in a graphics card, otherwise known as VRAM, is being diverted to AI accelerators. While the initial…
We have reached the GPU ceiling, and AI tricks like DLSS are how companies pretend we haven't
…Nobody wants a 600W GPU, their connectors blowing off, or a graphics card that practically needs a PSU of its own just to function. The idea of brute forcing performance gains generation…
My RTX 5090 can't keep up with Apple Silicon on the biggest local LLMs, and I hate to admit it
…But it's pretty funny that Apple, somewhat accidentally, settled on a memory architecture that positioned it as a better alternative to the best consumer GPUs in the world for a very…
You're spending too much on your motherboard, and it's not helping performance
…After all, it's the one component that ties everything in our build together, including the CPU, GPU, RAM, SSD, cooler, and even case fans. When you think of it that way…
Your motherboard has hidden upgrade possibilities that you keep ignoring
…For instance, most people run a single graphics card on their PC, but if you need to add a second GPU for AI workloads , rendering, or PhysX, the supplementary PCIe power header…
FSR 4.1 just made AMD's last-gen flagship a smarter buy than its current one
…reassurance that their expensive GPUs will receive meaningful feature upgrades long after launch day marketing fades away. AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT Brand AMD GPU Speed 2GHz Interface PCIe 4.0 Memory…
Intel's New Arc Pro GPUs show what the consumer cards should have been
…At Pro Day 2026 , Intel's two new Battlemage GPUs built on the Xe2 architecture, featuring 32 Xe cores, 32GB of GDDR6 memory and 608 GB/s bandwidth offered exactly the kind…
I dropped my DDR5 down a speed tier, and the performance difference was basically nothing
…Faster memory does make a difference in CPU-limited scenarios. If you have a 1440p/360Hz monitor like I do and use a high-end GPU like the RTX 4090 or 5090…