GPU companies want you to buy more, and artificial segmentation is a neat way to force you to do just that. To me, it feels obvious that a higher-end SKU deserves to have more VRAM than lower-end counterparts, but Nvidia doesn't agree. While its RTX 5060 Ti has a 16GB variant, the 30% faster RTX 5070 is left to struggle with just 12GB of VRAM. Sure, the RTX 5070 Ti has 16GB of VRAM, but so does the top-tier RTX 5080, as inexplicable as that is. Even the last-gen RTX 4080 and RTX 4080 Super have 16GB of memory; why does the successor not have more? The simple answer is that Nvidia is the market
5 PC hardware downgrades the industry disguised as "progress"… These "RAM sticks" have seen the evolution of PC memory from SDR to DDR to DDR5 eventually , but after three decades, we're about to see the last of them. Next-generation DDR6 RAM was confirmed to adopt a new form factor, namely the Compression Attached Memory Module, i.e., CAMM2, back in 2024. …
… LPCAMM2 memory is the next big thing required for DDR6 memory in next-gen laptops, but we already got LPDDR5 models with CAMM2 two years ago. …
… Modular CAMM2 and LPCAMM2 RAM are next-gen form factors that give me hope for the near future as JEDEC finalizes the DDR6 memory standard. …
… Microsoft's next-gen consumer Surface devices will likely feature Nvidia's N1 and N1X chip We probably won't have to wait long to know for sure With all of this in mind, what could a new era of PC actually mean? …
… Memory shortage strains supply to AI centers; may delay next-gen consoles to 2029-2030. The ongoing memory crisis has claimed another victim. …
… LPCAMM2 is an all-in-one upgrade to laptop memory Modular, fast, and power-efficient When it comes to computing hardware, specs are usually enough to either make or break the case for an emergent technology. …
… Steam Machine CPU AMD 6-core Zen 4 x86, up to 4.8 GHz, 30W TDP Graphics Semi-custom AMD RDNA3 28CU 8GB GDDR6, 2.45GHz max sustained clock, 110W TDP Memory 16GB DDR5 SODIMMs Storage 512GB or 2TB models, microSD card slot Ports DisplayPort 1.4, HDMI 2.0, Ethernet 1Gbps , USB Type-C 3.2 Gen 2, 2x USB … …
… And Intel had the worst showing, thanks to its Arrow Lake CPUs, which ended up slower than the 14th Gen Raptor Lake processors . It seems the days of tangible improvements from one generation to the next are behind us. …
… 03 / 8 Interfaces What does the acronym NVMe stand for in the context of SSD technology? A Non-Volatile Memory Express B Next-Gen Volatile Memory Expansion C Network-Verified Memory Extension D Non-Volatile Module Exchange Correct! …
… Related AMD's UDNA is going to be even better than RDNA 4, and here's everything we know so far RDNA4 was excellent, but AMD's next generation of GPUs looks to be even better. …
