…or benchmarked against hardware that was never in the same class to begin with. It just needs to boot, stay online, and keep doing its job without drama. That doesn’t mean…
…The DRAM crisis has effectively stopped hardware refresh cycles dead in their tracks at the moment, and standalone manufacturers aren't able to ship next-generation devices at sustainable price points. The…
…He's written for Macworld , Tom's Hardware , groovyPost , The Mac Observer , and more before beginning here at XDA. Sign in to your XDA account GPU passthrough is the Proxmox trick everyone…
…transcoding work from the CPU, which dramatically improves performance. Instead of the processor brute-forcing video conversion in software, the GPU handles it efficiently in hardware. Remote access is another area where…
Jasmine Mannan Mar 21, 2026, 4:30 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 prefer to take a "glass half full" perspective on the situation, as a year without any new Nvidia hardware might be exactly what the PC space needs. Related Here's what…
…He's written for Macworld , Tom's Hardware , groovyPost , The Mac Observer , and more before beginning here at XDA. Sign in to your XDA account For a long time, I treated the…
…on older hardware. Not quite. The bottleneck is computational, not bandwidth or VRAM-related. When Tensor Cores are absent, the AI inference workload is handled by regular shaders, which dramatically reduces performance…
…It was a mild inconvenience before, but since the DRAM crisis hit the consumer market , it has evolved into an upgrade bottleneck altogether. Sticking with an AMD platform felt "safe" a few…
…Valve could always afford to sell their hardware at or near cost, absorbing thin margins in exchange for net ecosystem growth. The Steam Deck launched and thrived on that model. But that…
