Hands-on coverage of the graphics cards, consoles, and gaming gear that power the way we play — and whether they are worth your money.
The PS5 Pro has a 37% compute advantage. Digital Foundry found it finishing behind the Xbox Series X in The Outer Worlds 2, with PSSR disabled entirely. And after August's price rise, only $100 separates them.
Driver 610.47 quietly killed the twenty-year-old Control Panel and moved everything into the NVIDIA App. Four months and three driver releases later, here is exactly where each setting you rely on now lives — and the one product line that kept the old panel.
AMD shipped a Zen 4 processor in the middle of 2026, and it makes complete sense. The 3D V-Cache that drives X3D gaming performance is identical to the 7800X3D's — you give up 500MHz of boost clock and save real money in a year when everything else got expensive.
An HBM module sells for $60–100. The same amount of conventional DDR5 sells for $5–10. That spread, not a shortage, is why your next build costs more — and why IDC calls this a permanent reallocation rather than a cycle you can wait out.
The 12GB mobile RTX 5070 shipped exactly as leaked. The 18GB and 24GB desktop Super cards did not — and outlets still can't agree whether they were delayed to CES 2027 or killed outright. The split between laptop and desktop explains why.
Same Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme, same 24GB of RAM, same 1TB drive as the Ally X. What changed is a 7.4-inch HDR OLED at 1400 nits — and a $2,499 AR bundle that ASUS walked back to a $1,299 standalone after the reaction.
MSI's NPU-equipped displays highlight in-game characters, simulate aiming zoom and counteract flashbangs — all inside the monitor, past the boundary every anti-cheat system inspects. The burn-in sensor is the feature that earns its place; the rest is a problem nobody has answered.
Six CVEs, one scoring 8.8, across GeForce, Quadro, Tesla and vGPU. But the highest-severity flaw is Linux-only, none of them is remotely exploitable, and if your driver updates automatically you were patched before the bulletin went public.