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A graphics card on a retail store shelf with a price tag, as AMD confirms a 10-15% GPU price increase for August 2026.

AMD had a GPU price hike ready for months. it just waited for Nvidia to go first

AMD finalized this price increase weeks ago and sat on it, waiting to see if Nvidia would take the backlash first. Now that Nvidia's moved, so has AMD.

Nadia Rahman · 3d ago · 6 min

AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT graphics card box next to a 360mm liquid cooling radiator

Deals

AMD is basically giving away an $89 cooler with this 16GB GPU — the local-AI math actually works

a limited-time Newegg bundle drops the effective price of a 16GB RX 9070 XT to $659 — here's whether that's actually a good local-AI buy

Nadia Rahman · 5d ago · 5 min

An Nvidia RTX graphics card installed in a desktop PC, representing the 16GB tier compared in this guide

Hardware

amd's 16GB GPU is $400 cheaper than nvidia's — for local AI it's not the easy win it sounds like

Same 16GB of VRAM, wildly different price and software maturity in August 2026 — I ran the actual numbers.

Ravi Malhotra · 6d ago · 6 min

An AMD Radeon graphics card with red accent lighting on a dark background

AMD's big AI event was all about chips you'll never buy. the one you actually can already shipped

Instinct MI400 and Helios racks got the headlines at Advancing AI 2026 — but the actual local-AI hardware for individuals already exists, and it's cheaper than an RTX 5090.

Lena Fischer · Aug 1 · 7 min

Macro shot of a system-on-chip on a circuit board, representing the Strix Halo APU

how to turn 128GB of RAM into 96GB of AI memory: the Strix Halo VRAM trick nobody explains

AMD's Ryzen AI Max+ 395 lets you hand up to 96GB of its unified memory to the GPU — enough to run a 70-billion-parameter model on a mini-PC. Here's exactly how much you can allocate, how to do it, and the catch.

Ravi Malhotra · Jul 27 · 9 min

everyone says AMD means fighting ROCm for local AI. on llama.cpp, the thing you're told to install is the slower one

The RX 7900 XTX gives you 24GB cheaper than a 3090. The catch isn't what you've heard — a llama.cpp scoreboard and an open bug report suggest its Vulkan backend beats ROCm for inference, no painful install required.

Lena Fischer · Jul 22 · 9 min