Arka Mukherjee

The Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 has become the cornerstone of the company's interest, with sales values and community orders enough to postpone the launch of the RTX 50 Super series GPUs. This card, originally launched at $8,500 and currently selling at $10,999, is theoretically an even beefier version of the RTX 5090 32 GB, offering thrice the VRAM and a healthy 20% extra Tensor and RT cores. It's designed for professionals and enthusiasts, besides being especially good at AI workloads.

The Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell is available in three editions: Server, Workstation, and Max-Q. While the first is self-explanatory, the latter two can be difficult to choose between as they both target the same form factor of systems. Unlike the GeForce lineup, where Max-Q branding has historically referred to laptop GPUs, the desktop RTX Pro 6000 Max-Q is designed for dense workstations. It focuses on power efficiency by slashing the total TDP in half.

Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol have reignited the battle for the top AI model in 2026. Both offer sufficient native multimodal capabilities and advanced coding agents, all while reasoning capabilities remain unmatched. The models are designed for enterprise and hobbyists alike, although differences remain.

The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 is the fastest Team Red chip you can buy today. Refining its 16-core design, the revision squeezes the most out of the Zen

The Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus and AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D are some of the fastest-selling gaming processors in 2024. The two chips, however, are designed with vastly different architectures, with Intel focusing on multi-core capabilities and efficiency through hybrid approaches. At the same time, AMD delivers significant I/O improvements specifically for gaming with its 3D V-cache design.

The Intel Core Ultra 5 250K Plus and the AMD Ryzen 5 9600X are essentially going head-to-head for the best budget gaming CPU in 2026. While Team Blue's offering brings the Arrow Lake Refresh architecture with higher core counts and better pricing, AMD's Ryzen 5 sticks to the tried-and-tested chiplet-based design with no added frills to prioritize pure IPC-based improvements.

A recent presentation from Nvidia has seemingly got the community thinking that SSDs will now become a substitute for GPU memory.

Until a few years ago, choosing between Nvidia RTX, AMD Radeon, and Apple Silicon was fairly simple: pull a few gaming FPS charts and rendering benchmark results, and check which laptop scores the highest results. However, as AI becomes larger than ever, both gaming and everyday computing are changing. While most assistants and augmentations such as Siri and Cortana have been cloud-based services in the past, now you have the possibility of making the GPU in the device matter more than ever before by running AI workloads locally.

The Nvidia RTX 50 Super series is set to be a mid-cycle refresh to the existing Blackwell GPUs, with slight spec bumps and larger VRAM buffers squeezing out the most of the architecture introduced last year. However, as of August 2026, the cards have been delayed a few times and aren't launching anytime soon due to the ongoing memory and chip shortage. They aren't necessarily cancelled per recent reports, as many board partners have revealed that they have the hardware finished. Nvidia themselves have put the launch on hold due to apparent supply-chain issues.

On August 13, in an Ask Me Anything (AMA) session on Discord, Epic Games Store announced that they're working on a Linux version of their launcher. This information comes directly from a staff member at Epic who goes by the username @OnePercentChaos. Despite this explicit confirmation that a launcher is in the works, we have no information on the exact release date, nor will it be a part of the imminent Epic Games Launcher v2 preview.