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Somewhere a PC builder is pricing out a 32 GB DDR5 kit and wincing. Meanwhile Intel has just announced a single graphics card that can carry 480 GB of the same family of memory. Intel officially named its Crescent Island accelerator the GPU D-Series this week at OCP. The D270 is the first...

When AMD stops talking about GPUs for an entire keynote and starts talking about racks of CPUs, you know what kind of year the data center is having. At the 2026 OCP Global Summit in San Jose, the agentic AI pitch came with a very large core count attached. AMD introduced Helion on October 12...

# NVIDIA Halves DLSS 5 Performance Cost with Major October Update NVIDIA significantly improves DLSS 5 efficiency with a new 3D-Guided Neural Rendering model that's 2X faster, reducing GPU overhead by half while maintaining visual quality. The update debuts in NBA 2K27. See full article...

Prime Day week is never a big week for embargo lifts, and this one was no exception: no new GPU or CPU silicon, just a flood of partner cards, peripherals, and one very expensive RTX 5080. PCMag crowned Gigabyte’s Aorus RTX 5080 Infinity the fastest RTX 5080 it has tested, at a price that tells...

Gears of War: E-Day landed this week and did something we almost never see from Unreal Engine 5: it pinned CPUs and scaled cleanly with core count. That makes it as much a CPU story as a GPU one. Elsewhere, The Witcher 3 Remastered gave benchmarkers some very strange scaling to chew on, and the...

When we wrapped up the August survey, we said September’s numbers would arrive in early October. Valve has delivered. At first glance, this looks like the month Blackwell finally took over Steam. At second glance, it looks a lot like February. Per Valve’s combined survey data, the GeForce RTX...

The GPU market got weird enough this week that a Radeon RX 9070 XT now costs less than a GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB at Newegg, and TechSpot put the two head to head to prove how lopsided that is. AMD’s OEM-only RX 9050 4GB also finally got tested, and China’s Lisuan LX 7G100 got […] See full...

DLSS 5 has been hogging the spotlight since it arrived in NBA 2K27. NVIDIA’s latest developer drop has a quieter update that’s likely to matter more for the games you’ll actually play this fall. In its September 22 developer blog, NVIDIA announced RTX Mega Geometry SDK 2.0, which adds streaming...

Arc Raiders started life as a PvE co-op raid game, pivoted to hardcore PvPvE extraction, and then found out a huge chunk of its players would rather not shoot each other. Embark Studios is now going to test the obvious answer. In a September 24 post from executive producer Aleks, Embark...

It’s rare for a live service game to go out by giving players everything. Quake Champions is doing it anyway. With its 1.31 point release on September 23, id Software moved Quake Champions from free-to-play to a paid app on Steam. The update unlocks every champion and most cosmetics for...

Rayman Legends ran on a Wii U. Its remake needs an RTX 4080 to hit 60 fps at 4K, and it isn’t even rendering native 4K to get there. Ubisoft published the official PC system requirements for Rayman Legends Retold on September 22. Every tier targets 60 fps, and every tier assumes upscaling set to...

Logitech’s PRO line turns 10 this year, and the company marked it by replacing nearly the whole thing at once. At its G PLAY 2026 event, Logitech G unveiled fifteen new products. The four PRO Series pieces are the ones competitive players will care about. The PRO X3 SUPERSTRIKE keeps Logitech’s...

Your Battlefield 6 session probably isn’t dying because of your RAM overclock (Ed: You’re still playing this?). If the game drops to desktop about 20 seconds in with no error, and you recently installed Windows 11’s September preview update, the update is the first thing to check. Microsoft...

A $1,000-plus VR headset strapped to a sweaty forehead needs to survive more than one launch hype cycle. So the most useful thing to know about Valve’s Steam Frame might not be its resolution but what happens when something wears out. iFixit now has an answer, and it’s mostly good news. In its...

If you plugged your RTX 5090 in with the 12V-2×6 cable that came with your ATX 3.1 power supply, you did what almost every PSU maker tells you to do. According to one owner’s support emails, PNY now says that choice cost him his warranty. The owner, Reddit user Melodic_Initial_1767, posted the...

Three months ago, over 160,000 players logged in to say goodbye. Now Bungie says the goodbye was premature. In a post on Bungie.net titled “The Next Chapter for Bungie”, the studio committed to restoring content it spent years removing. Studio leadership pledged to pull Destiny 2’s removed...

Microsoft’s “reset” of Xbox has reached the part where the org chart gets redrawn. The Bungie-born franchise that defined Xbox now belongs to the studio that makes Call of Duty. In a memo republished on Xbox Wire, Xbox chief content officer Matt Booty confirmed another 268 layoffs spanning Halo...

Motherboard utility software has a long habit of shipping kernel drivers that are more trusting than they should be, and GIGABYTE has been here before. The company has posted a new security advisory, and if Control Center is installed on your PC, updating it should be on today’s to-do list...

A year ago, 540Hz OLED sounded like a spec-sheet dare. Now the esports monitor race has moved to 720Hz, and this time it runs at the panel’s full native resolution. LG Display says its new panel delivers the highest refresh rate among gaming OLED displays at 720Hz, along with a 0.02ms response...

With DDR5 still expensive, the budget PC world keeps pulling AM4 back off the shelf. This week delivered a new AM4 chip at retail and new firmware for boards old enough to be in fourth grade. AMD’s two budget six-cores have finally reached US retail, just not at AMD’s prices. Amazon US lists the...