The AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT looks set to deliver highly competitive mainstream performance at a great price — perhaps too great. We’ll need to see what retail availability looks like, but the performance in rasterization, ray tracing, and AI workloads has improved a lot, closing the gap between AMD and Nvidia GPUs.
We’ve been praising continued price drops on OLED displays for quite some time now, mostly in the TV arena but more recently in the realm of gaming monitors, too. Almost overnight (it felt that way, anyway), monitor makers began embracing OLED. Now we’re starting to see an influx of newer quantum dot OLED (QD-OLED), one of which is the highlight
GPU shipments grew by 6.2% late last year despite shortages, but researchers predict that the graphics card market will decrease by 1% annually from 2024 to 2028.
It’s pretty ironic, if you think about it. AMD makes desktop CPUs, then turns them into BGA chips for the high-end mobile market. Laptop vendors don’t buy as many of those CPUs as AMD would like, and they start to filter into the market via alternative channels—like these Minisforum “Mobile on Desktop” (MoDT) products. So it goes that we have