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UBS thinks Nvidia will beat its own guidance by billions when it reports August 26, driven by Rubin GPUs ramping faster than anyone expected.
Lena Fischer · 5h ago · 6 min
Nvidia's mid-range GPU is up 36% in two months — here's whether it still makes sense for running models at home, or if $900 changes the answer entirely.
Ravi Malhotra · 19h ago · 6 min
The RTX PRO 6000 nearly doubled in eight months. Here's what your money actually buys against every real alternative for running big models at home.
Ravi Malhotra · 1d ago · 8 min
Nvidia's trading at its cheapest valuation in a decade. Meanwhile the price of renting a GPU by the hour nearly doubled. Both are true at once.
Ravi Malhotra · 1d ago · 7 min
six of the biggest names in finance just agreed to lend against Nvidia's GPUs. Nvidia is personally covering the loss if those chips turn out to be worth less than expected.
Lena Fischer · 2d ago · 7 min
MSI just told investors gaming hardware prices are rising 15 to 30% this year, and the actual culprit is a DRAM shortage AI datacenters are causing, not GPU chips themselves.
Ravi Malhotra · 2d ago · 6 min
Everyone benchmarks FPS. Nobody warns you that Nvidia's own control panel is the thing you'll actually resent.
Ravi Malhotra · 2d ago · 6 min
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is a 30-billion-parameter model with only about 3 billion active per token — Nvidia says that's why it runs up to 4x faster than comparable open models on a single consumer GPU.
Ravi Malhotra · 2d ago · 7 min
Jensen Huang called it 'the GPT moment for graphics.' Everyone with an RTX 40 card or older just got told to wait.
Diego Santos · 4d ago · 7 min
For four days in Texas you could buy an RTX 5090 at launch price. This week, Newegg's median RTX 5070 costs $240 more than it did in June.
Nadia Rahman · 4d ago · 6 min
The card was reportedly finished and sitting with board partners — and Nvidia shelved the whole Super lineup anyway.
Ravi Malhotra · 6d ago · 7 min
cuFile lets a GPU pull data straight off an SSD in microseconds, skipping the CPU hop that's been quietly starving AI training jobs of work to do.
Lena Fischer · Aug 7 · 7 min
Owners with decade-old GTX cards still running fine say the real lifespan number isn't what upgrade-cycle marketing wants you to believe.
Ravi Malhotra · Aug 7 · 6 min
QuakeCon 2026 is, right now, the one place on the planet where Nvidia's flagship still costs what it said on the box.
Nadia Rahman · Aug 7 · 6 min
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 · Aug 6 · 6 min
GDDR7 modules and TSMC wafer costs just pushed every RTX 50 card higher this week — but the ugliest number isn't the one everyone's quoting.
Ravi Malhotra · Aug 4 · 6 min
A new open-source physics engine lets Nvidia GPUs simulate thousands of surgical robot training runs in parallel — and hospitals, not gamers, are the ones lining up to use it.
Lena Fischer · Aug 4 · 7 min
South Korea is the canary. TSMC wafer costs and $20 memory chips just pushed the RTX 5090 to 2.5x its sticker price — here's the actual buy-or-skip math for running AI models at home.
Ravi Malhotra · Aug 4 · 8 min
Same 16GB of VRAM, wildly different price and software maturity in August 2026 — I ran the actual numbers.
Ravi Malhotra · Aug 4 · 6 min
A third price hike in one year is reportedly coming for the RTX 50 series — and if you're buying VRAM for local AI, not frame rates, the calculation isn't the same as 'wait for a sale.'
Ravi Malhotra · Aug 4 · 7 min
It launched at $249 promising a fresh budget option. A few months later, a used RTX 3070 for about the same money makes it a hard sell.
Ravi Malhotra · Aug 3 · 6 min
MSI and Colorful just repriced their RTX 5070 Ti cards in China, and the increase traces straight back to memory costs squeezed by AI server demand.
Ravi Malhotra · Aug 3 · 6 min
the 5080 Super, 5070 Ti Super and 5070 Super are reportedly built, boxed, and sitting at board partners — Nvidia just won't let anyone sell them yet.
Ravi Malhotra · Aug 2 · 6 min
Kimi K3 is free to download, runs about 70% cheaper than Claude per token, and it just proved open-weight AI doesn't mean second-rate anymore.
Lena Fischer · Aug 1 · 7 min
A $299 budget GPU got $75 pricier in 72 hours flat. Here's the actual chain of events, and the honest call on buying now versus waiting.
Ravi Malhotra · Aug 1 · 7 min
Nvidia just hiked GPU prices for the third time this year, and for the first time it hit everything — not just the flagship.
Ravi Malhotra · Jul 31 · 7 min
18GB of VRAM, the same core, hardware reportedly already sitting with board partners — and still no release date. Here's the real reason, and what I'd buy instead this week.
Ravi Malhotra · Jul 31 · 6 min
A used Tesla V100 and a $50 adapter got one builder to 32GB of VRAM for $266 total — here's the honest math on whether you should copy them.
Ravi Malhotra · Jul 31 · 7 min
Moonshot AI's frontier model, the biggest open-weight model ever, was allegedly trained on NVIDIA Blackwell hardware acquired around both US export controls and China's own import restrictions. The compute-smuggling story behind the model.
Lena Fischer · Jul 30 · 9 min
Image generation is compute-bound and VRAM-hungry in a different way than LLMs. Here's the GPU that actually keeps up with SDXL and Flux, and the cheapest one that still does the job.
Ravi Malhotra · Jul 28 · 9 min
The new 4-bit format baked into RTX 50-series and Blackwell chips runs AI models at up to 3x the inference throughput of FP8, at nearly the same accuracy. Here's how it works and why it's exclusive to your newest GPU.
Lena Fischer · Jul 28 · 8 min
MSI, PNY and Colorful raised RTX 50-series distributor prices by up to 59% over MSRP. The cause isn't greed — it's the same memory shortage that's been quietly inflating everything with a chip in it. Here's whether to buy now.
Ravi Malhotra · Jul 28 · 8 min