Hardware & Chips
NVIDIA Local AI Hits 24GB+ RTX GPUs, Speeds Up 1.9x [2026]
NVIDIA used IFA 2026 in Berlin to draw a line under a two-year experiment. Local AI on consumer hardware is no longer a side project bundled into a…
AMD RDNA 5 Leak Targets 3.5 GHz GPU Clocks [2026]
A fresh leak is doing the rounds in GPU circles, and it centers on clock speed, not shader count or memory bandwidth. According to a post from the…
Nvidia DLSS 5 Tanks RTX 5090 FPS by 49% [2026]
Nvidia’s newest upscaling technology just failed its first real-world stress test. Independent benchmarks published by Club386 on September 3, 2026 show that enabling DLSS 5 on a GeForce…
Microsoft Maia 300: 300K TSMC Chips Aim at Nvidia [2026]
Microsoft is preparing to show the world its most important piece of silicon since it entered the AI chip race. According to Reuters, citing a report from The…
Intel Nova Lake Leak: Core Ultra 400 Hits Q1 2027 [2026]
Intel’s next desktop and laptop chip family finally has a real timeline attached to it, and the timeline lands later than the date Intel itself has been repeating…
Acer Swift Air 16 Repeats the Copilot+ Miss: 17 vs 40 TOPS [2026]
Acer used its IFA 2026 keynote in Berlin on September 2 to launch two new laptops built on Intel’s freshly unveiled Core Series 3 chips, known internally as…
Acer Swift Blade 14: 799g, But No Copilot+ Label [2026]
Acer used its IFA 2026 keynote in Berlin on September 2 to unveil the Swift Blade 14, a 14-inch Windows laptop that tips the scale at 799 grams.…
RTX 5090 Prices Double to $5,000 as AI Demand Bites [2026]
Nvidia’s flagship GeForce RTX 5090 launched at a suggested price of roughly $1,999. A year and a half later, buyers are paying north of $4,000 for the same…
DLSS 5 Leak Halves FPS: 158MB File, RTX 5070 Ti [2026]
A leaked Nvidia DLSS 5 file has spent the first days of September 2026 tearing through PC gaming forums, not because it looks good, but because of how…
Nvidia DLSS 5 Debuts Sept 3, RTX 5090 Hits 370 FPS [2026]
Nvidia is flipping the switch on DLSS 5 at 9 PM Pacific on September 3, and the company picked an unusual showcase for it: a basketball sim. NBA…
