Acer introduced a pair of petite PCs today. First up is the Acer SFF RTX Spark, a compact desktop designed for running AI agents. The company hasn't revealed many details, including price or availability, but it is the first look at how Acer will integrate some of the latest developments from NVIDIA. It's equipped with the NVIDIA RTX Spark, the "superchip" unveiled earlier this summer that boasts up to a petaflop of computing power. The Acer desktop can be equipped with up to a 6,144-core Blackwell RTX GPU, up to a 20-core NVIDIA Grace CPU and up to 128 GB of memory.

When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. Nvidia's DLSS 5 makes NBA 2K27 look incredibly real, which is kind of the problem NBA 2K27 shows off DLSS 5's impressive new realism -- and hints at a future where animation, not graphics, becomes gaming's weakest link. That sounds weird, but hear me out. Nvidia showed me and other journalists an early preview of 2K's NBA 2K27 ahead of the game's September 4 launch, because NBA 2K27 will also mark the debut of Nvidia's DLSS 5 technology, which applies AI models to rendered game scenes to drastically improve realism. It's the little things that sell it. Shadows fell naturally across Haliburton's hand as it gripped the ball.

Let's start with the Apple's most powerful processor ever, the M5 Ultra, coming to new high-end Mac Studio machines. Though based on the M5's older third-generation 3nm process, it fuses two dual-die M5 Max chips to form the quad-die architecture, "a first for Apple silicon," according to the company. Joining four chips might sound clunky, but the M5 Ultra's interconnects run at a record 4.4TB/s, allowing the quad dies to operate very much as a single processor. It's available with up to 36 cores (12 super cores and 24 performance cores) that deliver up to 25 percent higher single-threaded performance and 30 percent better multithreaded performance than the M3 Ultra. The M5 Ultra supports up to 512GB of high-bandwidth unified memory with 1.2TB/s of bandwidth, up 50 percent over the M3 Ultra.

A GPU vendor warns price hikes are coming later this year, and I can't help wondering if that means now is the right time to pull the trigger. Well okay, now might only be the second-best time to buy a GPU--the best time was probably just before AI-crazed companies started hoovering up all the memory and storage. But unless you can go back in time, right now might be the best time for anyone considering a graphics card purchase to pull the trigger. I say that because on this week's episode of The Full Nerd I heard the hosts discussing a recent Tom's Hardware story about a GPU vendor warning that card prices are going to rise significantly in the back half of this year. The vendor, PC Partner, also predicts that "entry-level" cards will be the hardest to get.

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