At IFA 2026 in Berlin, Windows PC makers including Dell, Acer, Lenovo and Packard Bell showed off affordable, colorful mid-range laptops aimed squarely at competing with Apple's MacBook Neo. Lenovo's IdeaPad Vibe stood out with seven color options and swappable keycaps, while Nvidia and AMD pushed AI-focused hardware, including Nvidia's RTX Spark platform and AMD's Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 495 chip with up to 192GB of unified memory.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-09-05
Developer danielblnc created a tool called DLSS-NR-on-AMD that forces DLSS 5 to run on AMD's RX 9000-series GPUs by intercepting Nvidia's NGX API calls and converting the AI model's calculations for AMD's matrix accelerators through HIP RT. The workaround only functions in DirectX 12 titles with FSR support and without anti-cheat, and currently yields modest results — the RX 9070 XT manages just 30 FPS at 1080p in Cyberpunk 2077 with DLSS 5 enabled.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-09-05
Nvidia's DLSS 5 has launched as an official feature in NBA 2K27, marking the first first-party implementation of the technology after weeks of community mods. Tom's Hardware tested it across the full RTX 50-series lineup, finding it demands a notable performance cost but still runs at 1080p on nearly every Blackwell GPU.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-09-05
Nvidia has launched DLSS 5 for the first time inside NBA 2K27, built with developer Visual Concepts to enhance lighting and shadows on top of scanned player models rather than replace the game's rendering pipeline. The feature is currently restricted to RTX 50-series cards, though Nvidia says support for RTX 40-series GPUs will follow at an unspecified date.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-09-04
British AI infrastructure startup Nscale, founded two years ago, is reportedly pursuing $3.5 billion in financing ahead of a possible IPO as soon as this month. That total reportedly includes $1.5 billion in convertible notes sold to investors and an additional $2 billion from Nvidia, which also backed Nscale's $1.1 billion Series B round in March.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-09-04
Georgi Gerganov, creator of llama.cpp, addressed Nvidia's acquisition of Hugging Face, noting Nvidia engineers have contributed code and hardware to the project for over a year. He said llama.cpp and its ggml backend will remain hardware-agnostic and community-driven despite the new corporate ties.
twitter.com
· 2026-09-04
Nvidia pushed an update through its App that appeared aimed at disabling unofficial mods enabling DLSS Multi-Frame Generation on RTX 40-series GPUs, a feature officially reserved for the newer RTX 50 Blackwell cards. Modders quickly found workarounds, restoring the feature across several games including Resident Evil 9 and Forza Horizon 6 within hours of the update landing.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-09-04
Nvidia has launched Personal AI Router (PAIR), open-source software that links RTX gaming GPUs, DGX Spark machines and Macs into a single local AI cluster without special cables or rack hardware. The tool works with existing local inference backends like Ollama and LM Studio, distributing chatbot and agent workloads across idle machines on a home or small-office network.
techspot.com
· 2026-09-04
OpenAI unveiled its newest model, GPT-6 Astra, and simultaneously declared that the industry has entered what it calls 'the AGI era.' The claim was discussed on this week's Vergecast alongside other tech news, including Nvidia's acquisition of Hugging Face and Apple's leadership changes ahead of its upcoming keynote.
theverge.com
· 2026-09-04
Jon Peddie Research says standalone graphics processor shipments for consumer PCs rose 12.2% quarter-over-quarter and 14.1% year-over-year in Q2 2026, even as component shortages pushed prices higher and overall CPU shipments fell. Notebook GPU shipments jumped 16.8% sequentially while desktop GPU shipments slipped 4%, with AMD picking up market share in the process.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-09-04
Nvidia has confirmed it will acquire Hugging Face, the New York startup behind the leading platform for open-source AI models, in a deal valued at $12.9 billion. CEO Jensen Huang said the price reflected competition from other bidders, making it Nvidia's second-largest acquisition after its $20 billion purchase of Groq's assets. Hugging Face hosts millions of models and datasets used by over 200,000 companies and 18 million developers.
cnbc.com
· 2026-09-04
Woot is selling a refurbished Alienware 16 Aurora gaming laptop with an Nvidia RTX 5050 GPU for $927 for new customers using a checkout code, or $1,029 for returning shoppers, undercutting the $1,099.99 new price at Alienware's own site. The refurbished unit still carries a one-year Alienware warranty and includes a 1600p 120Hz 16-inch display, Intel's Core 7 240H processor, 16GB of DDR5 RAM, and a 512GB SSD.
theverge.com
· 2026-09-04
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