Latest articles by Nick Evanson
PS5 Pro owners will soon get an improved PSSR AI upscaler, while PC gamers with RDNA 2 and 3 GPUs are still praying for AMD to add official support for FSR 4
News All these GPUs share very similar parts and features, so if one can do AI upscaling, why can't they all?
Microsoft's update for Direct3D, with opacity micromaps and shader execution reordering now official features, will probably mean little to gamers but graphics devs are going to be happy
News And happy devs mean better games, right? Right??
The massive difference between how well Resident Evil Requiem runs on the Steam Deck and an Asus ROG Ally just adds more fuel to the rumour that AMD has abandoned driver support for its Ryzen Z1 chips
News And if that really is the case, how long before it does the same with Z2 processors?
Resident Evil Requiem's path tracing is tough on GPUs but it probably won't take as long as ray tracing did to become a mainstream option in games
The price of perfection Ray tracing? Pffft, easy peasy now.
Resident Evil Requiem PC performance analysis: Great visuals and decent frame rates all round, though path tracing's an obvious frame rate killer
Ray-traced evil Upscaling is a bit of a must-use, but that's a given these days.
You might be as surprised as I was to learn that Assassin's Creed Mirage is one of the few games to use AI neural texture compression—the only one, I think
News Now this is an AI use case I can get fully behind.
Cheap graphics card deals this week
Deals We've done the hard yards sourcing the best graphics card deals for the GPUs worth putting in your gaming PC.
If I had just set a new world record for GPU overclocking, I'd surely be making a lot more fuss about it than AMD has
News Hitting 4,769 MHz on any GPU is no small feat.
Some users are claiming Discord's default process priorities are causing performance problems in esports games, so I've tested it myself to see what's going on
News And I have to say, I can't see any serious issues at all.
One leaker's cryptic post suggests that AMD's next Ryzen lineup will have some serious core configurations across the range
News From a six-core entry-level chip, all the way up to a dual-CCD, 24-core range topper.
Best gaming mouse in 2026: I've tested the very best mice and these are my top picks
Pinpoint The best gaming mouse for every game, budget, grip, and size.
Valve wins lawsuit against Rothschild and associated entities, with a jury agreeing they violated an anti-patent troll protection act
News The court also agreed that they had breached a global license agreement with Valve.
Yes, Chinese DRAM is fine for gaming but don't think for one moment that any of it is a bargain
News But if you can find something that's reasonably priced, by all means grab it while you can.
Relief that the worst is over or just the calm before the hurricane continues? Some reports suggest that DRAM prices have plateaued or even fallen
News It's not over until it's actually over.
A top overclocker has managed to destroy a $5,000 MSI RTX 5090 Lightning Z with the fury of a thousand suns. Well, the default voltage of a 2,500 W extreme overclocking BIOS
News Unless you're using liquid nitrogen, 1.2 volts is instant death for a big GPU.
'We don't have the capacity to support more than 2 colors right now' is the bizarre excuse X is using to explain why its dimmed theme was just thrown in the bin
News I don't have the mental capacity to understand any of this nonsense.
Don't ask 'why?' but this tech tinker turned the audio jack on their PC into a power button. A kinda borked power button
News Just ask yourself 'Well, why not?'
Ayaneo celebrates the Chinese New Year with the launch of a new customer service improvement plan, with US-based repair facilities currently being tested
News It also warns that some current products may be pulled from sale due to the escalating memory crisis.
Intel is still committed to evolving its Xe graphics architecture, though it's only talking about AI data centers right now
News What this means for gaming GPUs isn't clear, unfortunately.
Intel has now rolled out XeSS 3 multi-frame generation to every Arc-powered GPU, after its first foray only on Panther Lake
News Alchemist and Battlemage, integrated and discrete, they're all getting the AI performance booster.
Digging a little deeper into Intel's Xe3 architecture shows exactly why Panther Lake's iGPU is good: It's basically an Arc A770 graphics card jammed into a mobile chip
Third time's a charm And with better DRAM, it would absolutely fly.
Corsair has managed to 'successfully navigate a constrained global semiconductor market to secure supply' for memory, as its PC gaming hardware profits jump 60% in a year
News Its peripheral profits are only 6% better, though.
AMD's desktop CPU market share climbs almost 10% from last year, according to research, but it still trails behind Intel in every sector
News Team Red server CPUs have been selling extremely well, though.
