Hardware Editor · since 2019
Ravi has been building and taking apart PCs since the single-core days — his idea of a good weekend is a repaste and a spreadsheet full of thermals. He covers GPUs, CPUs and the build decisions that actually move frame rates, and he'd rather hand you a benchmark than a press release.
3GB GDDR7 chips cost triple what 2GB chips do — and that gap is holding back the VRAM upgrade local-AI and gaming buyers actually want.
Ravi Malhotra · 8h ago · 4 min
A leaked Medusa Point engineering sample scored big in Geekbench — but it's also running 300MHz faster than the chip it's being compared to. Here's how to actually read a leaked benchmark.
Ravi Malhotra · 1d ago · 5 min
TrashBench bolted a workstation-grade cooler onto a five-year-old RTX 3080 and cut VRAM temperatures from 100°C to 50°C. The performance gain was real — just smaller than the mod.
Ravi Malhotra · 4d ago · 5 min