A five-year-old GPU can handle modern games better than you think
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AMD's answer to DLSS arrived half-baked, and now nobody's using FSR Redstone
…FSR Diamond, which is reportedly tied to next-generation Xbox hardware . At this point, a bit of unease has begun creeping in. Right now, it's hard not to feel like AMD…
Curtain automation is fun, but the weird smart home projects are where things get really useful
Jasmine Mannan Apr 25, 2026, 3:30 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…
Nintendo built the 3DS to be unhackable, but a $5 puzzle game and a QR code proved them wrong
…and applications. The ARM9, meanwhile, ran a single process called Process9, and its entire job was security enforcement: managing cryptographic operations, controlling filesystem access, and handling AES encryption through dedicated hardware that…
I tried a new 8B local LLM, and its design might be the biggest shift since DeepSeek R1
…native inference server for Apple Silicon with an OpenAI-compatible API, and loading an MXFP4 quant pushed throughput to about 42 tokens a second on the same hardware. Outputs on the prompts…
Google's Gemma 4 isn't the smartest local LLM I've run, but it's the one I reach for most
…However, if raw tokens-per-second on a single model is all you care about, Apple Silicon still has an edge in bandwidth when it comes to its higher-tier SKUs, and…
I tried Google's new DiffusionGemma, and watching it generate text like an image is unlike any local LLM
…Google warns that Apple Silicon Macs may not see the same acceleration because unified-memory systems are often memory-bandwidth-bound during inference, while DiffusionGemma's speedup relies on giving a dedicated…
These 3D printed phone stands make store-bought options look like highway robbery
…I spent years defending companies that made great, reliable hardware, but I draw the line at overpriced desk accessories, and phone stands are my pet peeve . Hop online to find a simple…
I tried playing PC games on my phone, and the only thing that worked was a community rebuild of the most controversial app in the scene
…I assumed for a long time that my problem was something I was doing wrong, but it turned out to be the relative newness of the silicon was the issue instead. Winlator…
I undervolted my GPU for the first time, and the crashes taught me something important
…Fast-forward to today, and after almost three years of playing it safe with my hardware, I finally gave in. What I then found was equal parts impressive and frustrating. Because yes…
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