Nick Evanson
Nick, gaming, and computers all first met in 1981, with the love affair starting on a Sinclair ZX81 in kit form and a book on ZX Basic. He ended up becoming a physics and IT teacher, but by the late 1990s decided it was time to cut his teeth writing for a long defunct UK tech site. He went on to do the same at Madonion, helping to write the help files for 3DMark and PCMark. After a short stint working at Beyond3D.com, Nick joined Futuremark (MadOnion rebranded) full-time, as editor-in-chief for its gaming and hardware section, YouGamers. After the site shutdown, he became an engineering and computing lecturer for many years, but missed the writing bug. Cue four years at TechSpot.com and over 100 long articles on anything and everything. He freely admits to being far too obsessed with GPUs and open world grindy RPGs, but who isn't these days?
Latest articles by Nick Evanson
Steam's favourite GPU, the RTX 3060, is nearing its end as Nvidia gets ready to issue the last batch of chips
By Nick Evanson published
news Ampere GPUs are still really great but Nvidia wants you to buy Ada instead.
Brilliant execution, awful inspiration material: This AMD-powered Cybertruck mini PC really is in production
By Nick Evanson published
news It's a standard AMD Hawk Point system, shoehorned into a sturdy-looking chassis, but oh boy…those looks.
GDDR6X VRAM is claimed to be in short supply and could lead to an RTX 4070 being launched with slower GDDR6 to meet the demand
By Nick Evanson published
news Which should be fine, as long as it's not too much slower. Or the same price.
Meta's Mark Zuckerberg chews AI cud with Nvidia's Jen-Hsun Huang, talking about delicious cows, slicing tomatoes, and old Chinese guys drinking whiskey
By Nick Evanson published
news "We're CEOs, we're delicate flowers." Aww, bless.
Nvidia's CEO chats about the future of AI: 'We're going to need three computers... one to create the AI… one to simulate the AI… and one to run the AI'
By Nick Evanson published
news Definitely not trying to make everyone buy even more Nvidia GPUs, no sir.
AMD introduces a beta preview of Fluid Motion Frames 2, with 'AI-optimized enhancements for improved quality, lower latency, and better performance'
By Nick Evanson published
news No, the frame generation algorithm doesn't use AI—it's just been optimised by it.
Nvidia's reportedly scaling back RTX 40 series production by as much as 50% in preparation for the Blackwell RTX 50 launch
By Nick Evanson published
news Either that or the dearth of new GPUs means it's just a nice time to hike prices. Again.
MIT researchers create a super-fast, super-tough, super-slidey transistor and claim that in '10 to 20 years from now could change the world'
By Nick Evanson published
news The ferroelectric material transistor could be used to make NVMe SSDs last a whole lot longer.
Report claims that OpenAI has burned through $8.5 billion on AI training and staffing, and could be on track to make a $5 billion loss
By Nick Evanson published
news Generative AI makes billions of dollars in revenue but more is needed to cover the operational costs.
Asus ROG Ally X handheld gaming PC review
By Nick Evanson published
Bigger but better Some big changes and a host of further tweaks have fixed the old flaws making this the handheld gaming PC to get.
I downloaded Intel's new AI Playground beta and may have finally found something Arc is honestly good at
By Nick Evanson published
news It turns out that Intel's graphics cards are better at doing AI than they are at churning out ultra-high frame rates in games.
Google has changed its mind about dropping support for third-party cookies in Chrome, after years of trying to make it happen
By Nick Evanson published
news Depending on who you listen to, this is either a brilliant decision or a truly horrible one.
AMD RDNA 4 info leak confirms RT performance is getting boosted but could fall short of a major hardware redesign
By Nick Evanson published
news AMD's GPUs are perfect at rasterization but still trail behind Nvidia when it comes to ray tracing.
It's not just Windows PCs that have gone belly up, as CrowdStrike's Falcon software has been b0rking Linux-powered computers, too
By Nick Evanson published
news It doesn't matter what operating system you use, a buggy application can seriously ruin your day.
Nvidia's third-party RTX 40-series GPUs are losing performance over time thanks to rubbish factory-installed thermal paste
By Nick Evanson published
news It's not just about bad hotspots, the whole chip ends up getting hotter, causing it to hit thermal limits quicker.
No E, just the P—Intel quietly launches Raptor Lake Rekked for the embedded market
By Nick Evanson published
news But with the Core i9's reputation looking very iffy, would anyone want to take the gamble and use it in an industrial situation?
AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D CPU review
By Nick Evanson published
Cache for cash It's just a 5800X3D, except a bit slower and a whole lot cheaper. Which actually makes it better.
The CrowdStrike IT outage is pretty grim but let's hope it's not as bad as the infamous Dyn DDoS attack, Facebook mega-crash, and Rogers network disaster
By Nick Evanson published
news This one looks as bad as they come and there have been some truly massive IT problems in recent years.
AMD's tweaked RDNA 3.5 GPU is solely focused on improving mobile gaming performance
By Nick Evanson published
news There are plenty of little changes under the hood to help the graphics processor do more for less power.
Researchers create Dune-like pee-pants for the next generation of astronauts and maybe even wealthy, overly 'dedicated' gamers
By Nick Evanson published
news The design looks far more appealing than the adult diapers spacewalkers currently have to use.
It's 2024 and yet Intel is still churning out DUAL CORE CPUs for desktop PCs, and I'm a little in awe of the plucky trooper
By Nick Evanson published
news Two P-cores are all you're getting, but they're speedy little things, so it's not as awful as you might think.
Arm has developed a new shader-based upscaler using AMD's open source FSR 2.2 as its starting base
By Nick Evanson published
news Not that anyone needed a reminder but once again, open-source licencing is to thank for all of this.
Samsung workers union is calling for an indefinite strike, to which the bosses claim there will infeasibly be 'no disruptions' to production
By Nick Evanson published
news All while TSMC enjoys a market cap just shy of one trillion dollars.
Multiple governments around the world have secretly agreed to restrict the export of quantum computers
By Nick Evanson published
news The move has stumped the scientific community as there's no obvious reason for it.
An infamous dataset of leaked login details, updated last week, now houses 9,948,575,739 passwords and poses the biggest threat to our online security ever
By Nick Evanson published
news Another 1.5 billion passwords have just been added to the RockYou dataset, all harvested in only three years.
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