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I’ll always be impressed with the shenanigans PC makers get up to to try and fit everything inside mini PCs. The upcoming Steam Machine is the most pertinent recent example of this, but, to crank up the enigmatic dial, every bespoke mini PC has its secrets. Case in point, the Zotac Magnus EN mini workstation […]

Oracle is looking beyond Nvidia for the chips it needs to power its AI datacenters. In what could be described as a warning shot to Jensen Huang’s business, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison said: “We are now committed to a policy of chip neutrality where we work closely with all our CPU and GPU suppliers.” In […]

According to a Reuters report, Nvidia has built location verification technology that could indicate which country its chips are operating in, in an effort to prevent its AI GPUs from being smuggled into countries where their export has been banned. According to its sources, the feature is said to be a software option that taps […]

Apparently, there’s no more money in mining. It’s perhaps not a huge surprise, therefore, to learn that some of the largest bitcoin operations in the US are pivoting away from mining to AI processing. However, some of the details in this megabucks transition are intriguing. Wired has visited just such a facility in the throes […]

It’s been almost seven months since it was first announced, but at long last, AMD’s much-vaunted machine learning-powered update to FSR is finally here. With the AMD Adrenalin 25.12.1 driver releasing today, you too can get on the new FSR bandwagon. So long as you have an RDNA 4 card, that is. Better known as […]

Earlier this year, Nvidia quietly dropped support for 32-bit CUDA applications in its drivers for GeForce RTX 50-series graphics cards. While the move had been long planned and not unexpected, the change did have one disappointing outcome: every game that used 32-bit PhysX libraries for visual effects would be forced to either disable it or […]

Just a few weeks ago, we reported on the claim that AMD was planning to increase the price of all its graphics cards due to the global RAM supply problem. At the time, there was no indication of when the changes were going to be made, nor how large the increases were going to be. […]

Two good news stories in the space of one week for Intel? Well, kinda. Hot on the heels of a rumour claiming Intel has convinced Apple to make chip at its foundry comes new analysis showing an uptick in market share for Arc GPUs. Just don’t get too excited. Intel’s Arc GPUs have gone from […]

Black Friday is all over for another year. Except it’s not really, because now we’re into Cyber Monday, and that’ll be followed by Cyber Week. The good news is that there are plenty of deals to be found on every type and flavor of GPU, whatever your budget may be. 👉 The best Cyber Monday […]

A Chinese startup founded by a former Google engineer claims to have created a new ultra-efficient and relatively low cost AI chip using older manufacturing techniques. Meanwhile, Google itself is now reportedly considering whether to make its own specialised AI chips available to buy. Together, these chips could represent the start of a new processing […]

We all saw it coming, but it still doesn’t feel great. It seems that the RAM shortage that has us all mourning the not-so-terrible prices of a few months ago might now also open the door to a GPU shortage, and small GPU vendors will be hit the hardest. Reputable leaker Golden Pig Upgrade Pack […]

Earlier in the year, I got a look at what I called the ideal GPU physique in the form of the Asus ROG Matrix GeForce RTX 5090. This card was announced as a celebration of the company’s 30th anniversary of selling graphics cards, and it’s now officially launched at a price of, er, $4,000. To […]

Nvidia has just announced its latest financial results and, who’d a thunk it, the company has beaten expectations—and fears of an AI bubble burst—with record revenues. Overall, Nvidia raked in $57 billion in the third quarter of 2025. That’s 62% up on the same quarter in 2024 and 22% up on Q2 2025. It was […]

According to a new report on Korean outlet Dailian, Samsung has announced early results from mass production of its next-gen 2 nm chip node. But the company is only making very modest claims versus its existing 3 nm silicon. Dailian quotes a Samsung report claiming, “the 2nm first-generation gate-all-around (GAA) process has improved performance by […]

AMD FSR “Redstone” Is Coming – December 10th – YouTube Watch On AMD has been teasing us with its next-gen FSR 4 “Redstone” upscaling tech since May. But finally, belatedly, we have a launch date. Redstone will be released on December 10. Huzzah! Now, as we’ve detailed on multiple occasions, FSR 4 Redstone is AMD’s […]

Buying a new graphics card can be a tricky prospect, full of difficult decisions for even the most experienced of PC builders and gamers. But if you’re buying your very first GPU, then it can feel like an absolute minefield. Never fear, though, as I’m here to try and take the edge off some of […]

According to a post on Chinese social media platform Weibo, AMD is planning to ramp up graphics card prices in response to the ongoing squeeze on memory supply. The post says that AMD has already implemented an increase for its industry customers that has yet to show up in retail prices, but this new hike […]

If there’s one thing that is a dead cert in the PC tech world, it’s that in the build-up to an expected product launch, the interwebs will be full of leaks and rumours. In the case of the latter, these can be nothing more than a statement of the blindingly obvious, but occasionally, something gets […]

OK, there’s not a whole lot to go on here beyond a short video clip posted on Reddit. But it sure looks like what we have here must surely be the world’s first GPU-to-skateboard conversion. And an implied commentary over the silliness of modern graphics cards. A Redditor who goes by the handle ashleysaidwhat has […]

As if to prove the circularity of art imitating life imitating art imitating life, the guy who got famous for his portrayal in the 2015 movie The Big Short, Michael Burry, has just placed a $1 billion bet against Nvidia and AI specialist Palantir. That is, quite literally, a big short on Nvidia. Thanks to […]

AMD has just posted its latest financial results and the message is clear: Things are good. Things are very good. Indeed, CEO Lisa Su summed it all up succinctly: “We delivered an outstanding quarter with record revenue and profitability.” Overall revenue was up 36% to $9.2 billion, while profits grew by 31% to $2.2 billion. […]

As it’s Halloween, here’s a jump scare for PC hardware enthusiasts: Meltgate! See, I knew you’d be terrified. Yes, the 12VHPWR and 12V-2X6 connections have been a source of anxiety for many of us since their introduction, as we’re still seeing reports of the odd melting incident. Thermal Grizzly says it has the answer for […]

AMD has earned quite a bit of goodwill this year with the popular launches of the rather great RX 9070 XT and RX 9060 XT. AMD’s wins were Nvidia’s losses in consumer goodwill with the RTX 5070, in particular, having a pretty weak showing in our tests. As is ever the case, that pendulum has […]

Update, November 3, 2025: AMD has posted a blog entitled “Continued Support for Ever Radeon Gamer”, where it clarifies that RDNA 1 and RDNA 2 GPUs will not be losing game-specific optimisations as they enter ‘maintenance mode’. Previously, AMD said, “Future driver updates with targeted game optimisations will focus on RDNA 3 and RDNA 4 […]

Nvidia’s ever-optimistic CEO, Jensen Huang, has revealed more details of the company’s next-gen AI platform at the same GTC event where the company’s quantum computing plans were outlined. He calls it the Vera Rubin “superchip” and claims it contains no fewer than six trillion transistors. Yup, six trillion. In very simple terms, that means the […]