Latest articles by Nick Evanson
Claims about AMD moving to a 12-core chiplet design for Zen 6 have got me all kinds of excited for the next generation of X3D processors
news I know, I know. Rumours. They're just rumours. BUT I WANT IT!
Unreal Engine often gets flak for games running poorly or stuttering, but as Avowed demonstrates, it's really about how devs use it and the pressures of time
Unreal expectations Don't blame the tools. Or the tool makers. Or the tool users.
Avowed's low frame rates but smooth-feeling gameplay makes me wonder if we PC gamers worry too much about the numbers
Ignorance is bliss Yes, I know that makes me sound like a steaming hypocrite.
Monster Hunter Wilds PC performance: From Nvidia's latest, past AMD's greatest, to Intel's failing silicon, this is what the game does to PCG's own rigs
We put our own machines through the ringer with the Monster Hunter Wilds benchmark, to lesser or greater success.
Avowed PC performance analysis: Sometimes good, sometimes bad, frequently odd
Avowedly odd Temper your expectations, avoid upscaling, and just go by feel rather than frame rates.
We asked a PSU expert which adapters or extensions are okay for the RTX 50-series. His answer: 'DO NOT BUY adapters or extenders, they can all be dangerous'
news Spending $2,000 or more on a new GPU? Then get the right PSU and cables to go with it.
Just in case you've forgotten all about them, AMD posts a less-than-convincing argument as to why AI PCs are better than any other type of PC
news NPUs are the key, apparently, but don't ask about what doors they unlock.
I've been testing Nvidia's new Neural Texture Compression toolkit and the impressive results could be good news for game install sizes
news Big textures go tiny but there is a price to pay.
Where the AF are all the graphics cards?! It's not just the new RTX 50-series that's impossible to buy, finding any decent GPU in stock at the major US retailers right now is like staring into an abyss of nothing
Barren shelves It's like the pandemic's back for another round of GPU misery.
Epic talks shop about stuttering in games that use its Unreal Engine and offers solutions to the problem
news To precache or to bundle your PSOs, that is the question. Fortunately, Epic has the answer, too.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is proof, if any was ever needed, that you don't need the latest graphics technology to have a great-looking game that also runs well
This year's bar Warhorse Studio has set the bar for others to aim for in 2025.
Not even the most powerful gaming PC is going to get around Civilization 7's ridiculously variable performance
Ping pong perf Strategy games are supposed to be all about the CPU when it comes to performance, but Civilization 7 will just stress everything in your gaming PC
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 performance analysis—scalable frame rates, decent graphics, and barely a stutter in sight
Medieval marvel And for once, upscaling is completely optional. Wait, this is 2025, yes?
Civilization 7 PC performance analysis: Playable on lots of systems but the late game will grind down whatever CPU you have
Taxing turns Don't be fooled by how well it runs when you first start playing.
Spider-Man 2's PC launch woes are woe-ier than you think, as it looks like GPU-powered DirectStorage is hobbling performance
news Not Nixxes' finest hour, that's for sure.
Intel will be keen to forget 2024 despite its products selling well because its foundries still keep on swallowing money
news Client, data, AI, networking, and edge were all up compared to 2023.
This ultra-cool Apollo computer-inspired smartwatch looks rather beautiful but at the same time weirdly incongruous with the fashion-man model shots
news Slap a slice of American engineering history onto your wrist.
MSI says that the supply of its RTX 5090 cards will be very tight, due to a limited supply of GPUs from Nvidia
news Artificial supply constraint or a sign of genuine manufacturing limitations?
You don't need an RTX 5090 or a 4K monitor for gaming when you can play Snake on your monitor's subpixels. But you will need a microscope or a good macro lens
news Or just squint really, really hard.
This spectacular GB202 die shot shows just how massive Nvidia's RTX 5090 GPU is but it's not the largest chip it's ever shoehorned into a gaming graphics card
news Count the transistors with me. One, two, skip a few, ninety-two point two billion.
Arrow Lake's had three months of Windows and BIOS updates to fix its performance, and my testing shows in some games, it's worse
Wayward arrow I thought fixes were supposed to improve things.
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth PC performance analysis: Runs well and looks good, but the tight system requirements and dearth of PC-centric options spoil the show
Cloud Nein Limited graphics options, capped frame rates, and a mediocre upscaling system. Gee, thanks Square Enix.
Is time too precious to waste making gurning thumbnails for your YouTube videos? Huzzah for this AI tool that does it all for you, then
news Good to know all those super-expensive GPUs are being used for something so vital.
