Qwen 3.8 27B Needs Two RTX 5090s for Full Context
Weights that fit in 32GB still left the RTX 5090 waiting half an hour for a first token, and the fix was a different inference engine rather than a different card.
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AMD Clears 30 Percent of Client x86 While DDR4 Sells Intel’s Older Chips
Mercury Research put AMD past 30 percent of client x86 for the first time, and two Intel chips returned to Amazon's top ten. DDR5 pricing links the two.
GeForce On Streams Today With DLSS 4.5 Expected, and Zen 6 Reaches Linux Early
NVIDIA's Gamescom stream airs with DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction widely expected, and AMD's Zen 6 overclocking plumbing reaches the Linux kernel months ahead of the silicon.
A Thermal Cutoff in the 12V-2×6 Cable, a 1,000 Hz Panel, and B450’s Return
Corsair puts a thermal switch inside the 12V-2x6 cable, LG's 1,000 Hz UltraGear needs a DisplayPort 2.1 card before anything else, and Gigabyte quietly lists new B450 boards for DDR4 holdouts.
A Two-Instruction Gap in AMD’s Spectre v2 Defense, Now Closed
MIT researchers found a two-instruction timing gap that let interrupts defeat AMD's Safe RET mitigation on Zen 1 through Zen 4. The kernel fix was already merged before disclosure; separately, Linux 7.2-rc6 untangles a Zen 5/Zen 6 ID mixup.
The $279 RX 9050’s First Numbers, and Steam’s 16GB Milestone Has an Asterisk
The first RX 9050 review puts AMD's $279 card about 30 percent behind the RTX 5050, and Steam's July survey crowns 16GB of VRAM with a platform-mix asterisk.
AMD’s Turn to Raise Kit Prices, While the Memory Curve Bends on Paper
AMD reportedly raises board-partner kit prices about 10 percent for August, just as TrendForce's forecast shows the memory price curve finally decelerating, on paper.
AMD Helios Is Its First Real Rack-Scale Answer to NVIDIA
AMD's MI455X and 72-GPU Helios rack finally challenge NVIDIA at the system level, but peak specifications are only the start of the comparison.
RTX 50 Super and RDNA 5: What the GPU Rumor Mill Actually Knows in July 2026
The rumor mill says NVIDIA's RTX 50 Super refresh is back on track, off again, and due anywhere from late 2026 to CES 2027, while AMD's board partners quietly point to a 2027 RDNA 5 launch and nothing new before it. Here is every major claim, who made it, when, and how much weight it deserves.
AMD Brings Back the 5800X3D and Launches a 7700X3D as X3D Prices Spiral
Discontinued X3D gaming CPUs have been selling far above their launch prices, with AM4 parts hit hardest. AMD's answer is unusual: reissue a four-year-old CPU and downclock a current one, both under $350. Here is what shipped, what it costs, and who each chip is actually for.