Latest articles by Nick Evanson
Microsoft's 100% AI-generated Quake 2 made us nauseous but John Carmack, the game's OG coder, is into it: 'What? This is impressive research work!'
News The research, folks, the research. Absolutely not the frame rate. I hope.
Patent document shows AMD started researching the use of neural networks in ray-traced rendering at least two years ago
News Just because it's patented doesn't mean it'll ever be used but you never know.
Nvidia hasn't announced them yet but laptop vendors confirm that RTX 5050 and 5060 GPUs are almost here, and they'll both have 8 GB of VRAM
News A power-efficient RTX 5050 laptop could be the perfect entry-level gaming laptop.
With a quick BIOS flash and a spot of overclocking, one modder has got his RX 9070 to outperform the normally faster RX 9070 XT
News It's the Vega 56 days all over again.
The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered isn't perfect on PC but it's a million times better than Part 1
Fungal FPS Wave goodbye to VRAM and shader compilation problems but say hello to a major CPU workout.
The first Radeon was superior to Nvidia's GeForce2 in almost every way but it set the tone for how AMD would fair against the jolly green giant for the next 25 years
Happy birthday Radeon Futureproof features mean squat here and now.
AMD goes all-in on being a data centre designer by purchasing ZT Systems for $4.9 billion
News That's a lot of money but it's peanuts compared to how much cash AMD could rake in via AI.
Implementing a spellchecker on 64 kB of RAM back in the 1970s led to a compression algorithm that's technically unbeaten and part of it is still in use today
news The trick, it turns out, is to use an awful lot of clever and complicated math.
Linus Torvalds admits 'pure incompetence' for missing the new Linux 6.14 kernel deadline but all is forgiven as the update is great news for non-Windows gaming
News And it's all down to an improved NTsync driver.
Windows 11 now has a publicly available roadmap so you can get to see what forthcoming horrors or awesome features await you
News It's all about transparency, according to Microsoft.
With Nvidia Ace taking up 1 GB of VRAM in Inzoi, Team Green will need to up its memory game if AI NPCs take off in PC gaming
More VRAM please Ace is a bit wasted in Inzoi but it has huge potential in other genres.
If you've ever wanted to upgrade a laptop with 'modular AI units' then Compal might just have the very thing you're looking for
News No specs yet, I'm afraid. Or price. Or many details at all.
MSI has gone so heavy with 12V-2x6 power sockets in its latest high-end PSUs that many AMD and Intel graphics cards have no way of being powered
News A sign of change in the PSU market or just a one-off for a specific market?
The RTX 5060 and RTX 5060 Ti are rumoured to be mere weeks away, with board partners reportedly required to ensure at least one MSRP model at launch
News Nobody ever leaks about stock levels, though.
It's not for PC gamers but Razer's new AI QA Copilot could ultimately benefit every PC gamer out there, and it's looking like it could be a killer app that AI needs right now
news And there's a good chance that it becomes an example of AI improving someone's job, not replacing it.
I honestly thought Razer's Sensa haptics stuff was just a gimmick until I tried it with a sim racing setup, and now I'm absolutely sold
news At the very least, it's great for the blood circulation in your glutes.
Nvidia's expanded Zorah demo tells us how AI is the future of graphics: 'There's no rasterization going on at all. This is all ray traced and the amazing part is that it's actually faster than rasterizing'
news And it's faster because of AI, natch.
AMD, Intel, Microsoft, and Nvidia are all excited about cooperative vectors and what they mean for the future of 3D graphics, but it's going to be a good while before we really see their impact
news And it's not just because the technology is brand new.
Assassin's Creed: Shadows PC performance analysis: Ray tracing, upscaling, and frame generation are all optional, but only two of them are worth using, though not the ones you might think
FPS in the shadows Assassin's Creed is back with epic vistas, pretty graphics, and so-so performance. Same old, same old.
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D review
Total Zen AMD has taken its Ryzen 9 9950X and given it some 3D V-Cache lovin'. Oh hell yeah.
Assassin's Creed: Shadows is just around the corner, so come and see the last 17 years of the series' PC graphics at max 4K settings
Rendering creed Bringing history to life and then killing it with a hidden blade. Or bugs.
ASRock Z890 Taichi Lite motherboard review
A bit too lite Lite in name but not lite in features. Sadly, not lite in price, either.
MSI pulls its MSRP RTX 50-series cards from its online store, not that we ever saw any of them in stock
news 'Look at me. I am the scalper now.'
