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Nvidia doubles RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell's MSRP to a staggering $16,000 — 96GB card started pre-orders below $8,000 last year (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-12 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: nvidia, rtx 6000 blackwell, workstation gpu

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Save over $600 on a massive 18-inch gaming laptop as it falls to a new all-time low price at Amazon — Acer's Predator Helios Neo 18 AI packs an RTX 5070 Ti and 32GB of memory (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-12 | by Stewart Bendle | tags: acer predator helios neo 18, nvidia rtx 5070 ti, intel core ultra 9 275hx

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LTX-2.5 can generate a 10-second AI video from an image in just 6.8 seconds on Nvidia superchips — and it's open weights (venturebeat.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: ltx, nvidia, comfyui

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This New Open-Weight AI Model Is Built for Video and Robots (cnet.com)

2026-08-11 | by Katelyn Chedraoui | tags: ltx-2.5, nvidia rtx, open-weight ai

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Walmart has slashed $600 off this RTX 5060-powered gaming laptop, now just $1,099 — get Gigabyte's 16-inch Aero X16 with 16GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-11 | by Stewart Bendle | tags: gigabyte, rtx 5060, amd ryzen ai 7

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GeForce RTX 50-series GPU prices spike as much as 39% as Blackwell price hikes hit the US — RTX 5070 gets a 36% hike, RTX 5060 up 27% at the median of Newegg listings (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-10 | by Jeffrey Kampman | tags: nvidia, blackwell, rtx 50-series

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The Ambition Project (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | by Bryan Caplan | tags: ambition, jason brennan, uatx

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Two variants of Nvidia's RTX Spark show up on Geekbench, revealing a cut-down 18-core model — Full 20-core beats most x86 mobile chips across multi-core and single-core tests (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-09 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: core, core rtx, multi

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Triton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMU (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | by Utm Team | tags: build, calls, directx

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Nvidia sells RTX 50-series GPUs at MSRP during QuakeCon 2026 — graphics cards sold at launch prices more than a year after release are now considered an attraction (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-07 | by Jowi Morales | tags: msrp, nvidia, price

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Save $370 on this 1440p gaming PC with an RTX 5060 Ti 16GB — formidable ABS Cyclone Aqua rig ships with 20-core Intel Core i7-14700F, 16GB DDR5 and a 1TB SSD, now only $1,329.99 (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-07 | by Ben Stockton | tags: gaming, performance, price

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Pre-modded 22GB RTX 2080 Ti cards surface on eBay for $500 as VRAM-hungry local AI fans chase down every spare FLOP — Hong Kong-based seller offers AI-friendly memory mod for a reasonable price (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-06 | by Jeffrey Kampman | tags: means, memory, products

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Want to Buy Nvidia’s Graphics Cards at MSRP? Head On Down to Grapevine, Texas (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-06 | tags: close, close rtx, need spend

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Huge $750 saving makes this Gigabyte OLED gaming laptop with an RTX 5070 Ti an absolute steal right now — just $1,999 for 1600p rig with 32GB DDR5, 1TB SSD, and a 24-core Intel CPU (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-05 | by Ben Stockton | tags: gigabyte, rtx 5070 ti, oled display

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Crazed modder turns NAS into a gaming PC with RTX 5060 hanging from the side, boosts frame rate by 828% — Frankenstein rig hides dedicated PSU in drive bay, breaks Time Spy world record for the onboard CPU (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-05 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: nas, rtx 5060, intel core i5-1235u

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Lenovo LOQ Essentials 15 Gen 11 Review: A good display meets a low-power RTX 5060 (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-04 | by Charles Jefferies | tags: lenovo, loq essentials, rtx 5060

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Show HN: Fine-tune an 8B model on a 4 GB laptop GPU (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: soup-cli, llm fine-tuning, rtx 3050

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In a troubling sign, Nvidia RTX 50 series prices jump up to 30% in South Korea — TSMC wafer hikes and $20 GDDR7 modules push RTX 5090 past $5,100 (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-03 | by Kunal Khullar | tags: nvidia, rtx 50 series, tsmc

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Explanation of INT8 ConvRot (FP8 is no longer needed) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-03 | tags: int8 convrot, geforce rtx, comfyui

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Gaming on the 4GB Radeon RX 6500 XT and GTX 1650 Super in 2026 — upscaling makes low-end GPUs viable for esports and internet cafes (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-03 | by Jeffrey Kampman | tags: amd rx 6500 xt, nvidia gtx 1650 super, rdna 4

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Ten years later, the iconic GTX 1080 Ti still holds up in 1080p gaming, but not without showing its age — Redux testing highlights the wonders of 11GB VRAM & the woes of time (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-03 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: gtx 1080 ti, nvidia, pascal architecture

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RTX 5060 Ti survives car crash after being bent in half — short PCB saves the day, single memory chip resolder restore full performance (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-02 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: rtx 5060 ti, brother zhang, short pcb

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HP’s HyperX Omen 15 isn’t quite the budget-friendly gaming laptop its predecessor was (theverge.com)

2026-08-02 | by Antonio G. Di Benedetto | tags: hyperx omen 15, nvidia rtx 5050, ces

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How 'Situational Awareness' Hedge Fund Dropped 67% in AI Stock Rout (slashdot.org)

2026-08-02 | by Posted | tags: openai, citadel, ai stocks

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Alienware 15 Gaming Laptop Review: Hedging Its Bets (wired.com)

2026-08-01 | by Luke Larsen | tags: alienware, dell, rtx 5050

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AMD's new Radeon RX 9050 is roughly 30% slower than the RTX 5050 in games, early testing shows — the cheapest 8GB RDNA 4 GPU comfortably handles 1080p gaming but doesn't impress (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-31 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: amd, radeon rx 9050, nvidia geforce rtx 5050

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Save $900 on this RTX 5070 gaming PC from MSI in this limited-time Woot deal, now $1,399 — grab a huge saving on this Codex R2 rig with a 10-core Intel CPU, 32GB DDR5, and a 1TB SSD (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-31 | by Ben Stockton | tags: msi, rtx 5070, nvidia geforce

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Absurd GPU Pricing Update: Mid-2026 Edition (techspot.com)

2026-07-31 | by Tim Schiesser | tags: nvidia, geforce rtx 5050, geforce rtx 5060

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Absurd GPU Pricing Update Mid-2026: What Graphics Cards Cost Around the World (techspot.com)

2026-07-31 | by Tim Schiesser | tags: nvidia, geforce rtx 5050, geforce rtx 5060

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Nvidia's fastest graphics cards get US price increase at Best Buy, Amazon — Astral RTX 5080 now costs more than 5090's MSRP, flagship card now commands more than $4,300 (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-30 | by Kunal Khullar | tags: nvidia, rtx 5080, rtx 5090