… I stopped buying purpose-built gadgets and realized my junk drawer contained a high-performance , privacy-first smart home brain that outperforms the market leaders. …
… Component pricing is already under significant pressure , with DRAM costs climbing and GPU prices showing little sign of relief. …
… And that's an entire computer for the cost of a single GPU. More on that in a bit, though. At the very top, the gap isn't just lopsided, but instead, straight up absurd. …
… For NTC to become mainstream, developers will have to actively incorporate it into their games, which means that future games may come with a decreased VRAM cost. Current titles sitting in our libraries, however, will have the same resource cost as they always have. …
… Related I tried running games at native resolution again, but DLSS 4.5 changed my mind Even pixel peepers would struggle to justify native rendering at this point Turning it off made perfect sense on this build My partner's system is a very specific kind of bottlenecked: an RTX 2070 Super paired wi… …
… The materials required to maintain signal integrity at 32GT/s are significantly more expensive to manufacture, leading to a much higher price point. …
… The clearest recent example of a triple-A title dealing with VRAM constraints is Indiana Jones and the Great Circle . The game surfaces texture pool warnings, gate settings behind VRAM checks, and in some configurations refuses to enable certain options on 8GB cards at all. …
… This entails hollowing out the insides, leaving a 1.5mm-thick wall all around, and two drain holes to clear the trapped unused powder using pressurized air. …
… Related You don't have to wait for the Steam Machine - I built my own I'm too excited to wait until preorders open A kernel-level fix that finally prioritizes your game Foreground apps now get first dibs on VRAM A new batch of kernel-level patches bring about a foundational change in how Linux hand… …