
AORUS RTX 5090 AI BOX vs NVIDIA DGX Spark for Local AI
Two very different approaches to desktop AI hardware - a 32 GB eGPU with 1,792 GB/s bandwidth versus a 128 GB unified memory mini PC with full CUDA. Which one should you buy?
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Two very different approaches to desktop AI hardware - a 32 GB eGPU with 1,792 GB/s bandwidth versus a 128 GB unified memory mini PC with full CUDA. Which one should you buy?

A review of the Gigabyte AORUS RTX 5090 AI BOX - a liquid-cooled eGPU packing a full desktop RTX 5090 with 32 GB GDDR7, connecting to any laptop over Thunderbolt 5 for $2,999.

A hands-on review of the NVIDIA DGX Spark - a 128 GB Grace Blackwell mini PC that promises 1 petaflop of AI performance on your desk for $4,699.

CoreWeave stock plunged nearly 19% after Q4 earnings revealed widening losses, an 894% debt-to-equity ratio, and plans to spend up to $35 billion on data center expansion in 2026.

AMD invests $250 million in Nutanix to co-develop an open enterprise AI platform using Instinct GPUs, EPYC CPUs, and ROCm - directly challenging Nvidia's CUDA lock-in.

Nvidia reported Q4 FY2026 revenue of $68.1 billion - beating Wall Street estimates by nearly $2 billion - and guided Q1 to $78 billion, sending shares above $200 for the first time.

Meta will deploy up to 6 gigawatts of AMD Instinct GPUs across multiple generations in a deal worth up to $100 billion. AMD has issued Meta a warrant for 160 million shares - roughly 10% of the company - at a penny per share, tied to delivery milestones and AMD hitting $600.

A comprehensive guide to the best image generation models that run locally on consumer GPUs with 16GB of VRAM, from FLUX and Stable Diffusion to video generation and upscaling.

LLMfit is a Rust-based terminal tool that scans your hardware and scores 157 LLMs across 30 providers for compatibility, speed, and quality. Here is why it matters.

A practical, hands-on guide for software developers who want to finetune open-source LLMs and distill larger models into smaller, faster ones - covering techniques, tools, datasets, and cloud GPU options.

Meta and Nvidia announce a multiyear deal spanning millions of GPUs and CPUs, with Meta becoming the first to deploy Nvidia's Grace CPUs standalone at scale.

Rankings of the best open source LLMs you can run on home hardware - RTX 4090, RTX 3090, Apple M3/M4 Max - organized by VRAM tier with real-world token/s benchmarks and quality scores.