Nvidia again showed off DLSS 5 at its Siggraph 2026 keynoteTeam Green made it clear that developers will have a level of control, with a choice of three different AI modelsThere will be two sliders to play with, and masks to keep DLSS 5 from interfering with game assets where it’s not wanted – but…
Apple is rumored to be planning to rent Macs, as well as iPhones and other devices, to consumers’Apple Upgrade’ will allow you to pay via a subscription (with financing handled by Klarna), and buy the device eventually if you wishThis is seemingly Apple’s way of sidestepping the RAM crisis and keeping Mac sales going, as…
The latest Steam survey shows GPUs with 16GB are the most popularThey’re on 25.9% and have overtaken 8GB GPUs which are just behind on 25.32%There’s been quite a shift towards 16GB boards over the past year, but with news of more price hikes incoming, upgrading to this loadout could be a painful process for gamersGraphics…
AMD’s RX 9070 XT GPU is finally in the Steam hardware surveyAs of May 2026, it’s suddenly the most popular AMD GPUIt has a 1.33% market share, but Nvidia is still way ahead of AMD overallWhile Nvidia’s current focus certainly isn’t on its gaming graphics cards, it still has the desktop GPU market firmly in…
AMD has a new marketing campaign criticizing the MacBook NeoThe main thrust of the argument is that the Neo fails as a gaming laptopThat’s a highly confusing angle to take, seeing as this isn’t what MacBooks are about – and especially not the budget-friendly NeoAMD appears to be getting defensive about its Windows 11 laptops…
Nelson Duann, an exec in the SSD supply chain, has said: “The retail SSD market has almost disappeared”DDR5 RAM prices refuse to drop, although older memory modules are easing in price, but only very slightlySystem memory remains massively overpriced, and the same is true with many SSDs – and even hard drives are becoming more…
Nelson Duann is a VP at Silicon Motion, a maker of SSD controllersIn an interview, Duann made it clear that the strategy of Chinese memory chip makers is different to foreign suppliersThey are obliged by the government to support the local market, and that could be bad news for theories about these chip makers helping…
A new report from TrendForce gives us some optimistic nuggets of info about the RAM crisisIt appears that retail prices are dropping in the US, Europe, and especially over in China right nowThe bigger picture hasn’t changed much, though, according to memory chip makers, but we can still hope this is the start of a…
Asus RX 9070 XT GPUs have been hit with a sudden price hike in the USFramework has warned that while memory costs have stabilized in some areas, this is likely just a temporary reprieveThe laptop maker predicts that “We’ll continue to see volatility and cost increases through the rest of 2026.”There’s been a fresh round…
The spot price of a 16GB DDR4 chip has dropped by 5%It’s the first time this price has fallen in over a yearWhile that’s obviously a good thing, there’s a lot of storm remaining to weather with the RAM crisis yetWe’ve witnessed another hint that the RAM crisis is deescalating — at least a touch…
