But there’s one spec that has caused some concern among Ars staffers and others with their eyes on the Steam Machine: The GPU comes with just 8GB of dedicated graphics RAM, an amount that is steadily ...

Whenever we encounter stutters while playing our favorite games, a lot of us are quick to point fingers at the GPU. We do it subconsciously because, on the surface, that's the component responsible ...

The growing imbalance between the amount of data that needs to be processed to train large language models (LLMs) and the inability to move that data back and forth fast enough between memories and ...

When an enterprise LLM retrieves a product name, technical specification, or standard contract clause, it's using expensive GPU computation designed for complex reasoning — just to access static ...

When a videogame wants to show a scene, it sends the GPU a list of objects described using triangles (most 3D models are broken down into triangles). The GPU then runs a sequence called a rendering ...