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
 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

Practically every graphics card introduced since 2022 has had at least 6GB or 8GB of VRAM, but AMD is bucking that trend in 2026 with the new RX 9050 4GB. We dusted off two older 4GB cards to see if that little VRAM means an instant performance cliff.

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GPU prices keep surging in 2026 — Lack of sale discounts and rising VRAM costs keep current-gen prices sky-high
 GPU prices keep surging in 2026 — Lack of sale discounts and rising VRAM costs keep current-gen prices sky-high

AI, tariffs, and greed have put pressure on PC builders wanting a new GPU. Can you still get a cheap GPU?

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World’s smallest GPU silicon passes real-world testing — 240,000-transistor TinyGPU v2.0 renders 3D graphics at up to 15 FPS while v3.0 prepares for 2026 release

The TinyGPU v2.0 ‘standalone GPU’ silicon works, and was demonstrated in a video after it came back from its Tiny Tapeout production run.

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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
 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

PC Games Hardware has retested the GTX 1080 Ti, along with its GP102 brethren, in a range of new games across multiple resolutions. The results reveal the obvious: the 1080 Ti is still a capable GPU at 1080p, mostly thanks to its 11GB VRAM buffer, but it’s highly inefficient by today’s standards.

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

What happens when a graphics card gets in a car crash? If you’re lucky, the damage is limited to just cosmetic scars that can go away over time with no serious damage under-the-hood.

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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

The RX 9050 is slower than the RTX 5050 in every conceivable way except when the latter is constrained in some way. It performs worse in synthetic benchmarks and games but has more efficient power consumption. At 4K, it’s about 42% slower, and at 1080p it’s about 31% slower on average across various titles.

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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
 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

Premium Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 and RTX 5090 graphics cards are once again selling far above MSRP, with some Asus and MSI models climbing close to $5,000.

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GPU repair service will upgrade the 11GB of VRAM on your RTX 2080 Ti to 22GB — mod involves physically adjusting the strap resistors on the PCB to support a new BIOS
 GPU repair service will upgrade the 11GB of VRAM on your RTX 2080 Ti to 22GB — mod involves physically adjusting the strap resistors on the PCB to support a new BIOS

A GPU repair shop in the UAE is promising to upgrade the VRAM capacity of an RTX 2080 Ti from 11GB to 22GB by swapping the 1GB GDDR6 modules with 2GB chips and modifying the strap resistors to recognize the new VRAM.

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ASRock officially announces Radeon RX 9050 with 8GB VRAM — RDNA 4 card offers boost clock of up to 2600MHz (updated)
 ASRock officially announces Radeon RX 9050 with 8GB VRAM — RDNA 4 card offers boost clock of up to 2600MHz (updated)

ASRock has listed the long-rumored RX 9050 GPU on its website in both a 4GB and 8GB configuration, but has deleted those pages since.

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MSI and Colorful raise Nvidia RTX 50-series prices in China by up to 59% across the entire lineup — change in distributer pricing suggests GPU price hikes are on the way

GPU prices seem to be on the rise once again with official distributor announcements in China hiking up the entire Blackwell lineup overnight. Compared to MSRP, we’re witnessing a staggering bump of up to 75% at the top-end.

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