RAM crunch threatens to snuff out budget GPUs
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Rising costs shove AMD and Nvidia towards culling their cheap cards

The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell-on-earth yarn claiming that AMD and Nvidia are considering winding down production of their budget-oriented GPUs because the bill of materials has ballooned as GDDR prices shoot into the stratosphere.

RTX Pro 6000 snaps itself in half during a move
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$10,000 down the loo

A $10,000 RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell workstation card reportedly snapped under its own weight during a house move, becoming a pricey brick.

Unreal Engine 5.7 lands with flashier lights and leafy Nanite tricks
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Epic dishes out a fresh toolkit stuffed with visual wizardry.

Epic has lobbed Unreal Engine 5.7 at developers, and the thing arrives with enough graphical muscle to make rival engines look like they are running on a wheezing toaster.

AMD plots Gorgon and Medusa to turn rivals to stone
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Zen 5 refresh in 2026, Zen 6 in 2027, and a mysterious new GPU to bury RDNA

AMD has lifted the kimono on its next-gen client CPUs and GPUs, with new codenames straight out of Greek mythology.

World’s smallest GPU goes big with 3D graphics
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TinyGPU v2.0 can render 1,000 triangles at 15 frames per second

Retro computing fans are buzzing over TinyGPU v2.0, a homebrew graphics processor from FPGA tinkerer and vintage PC enthusiast Pongsagon Vichit.