Hunting for a new GPU for gaming, multi-display, or something else? Here's everything you need to know to shop the latest Nvidia GeForce, AMD Radeon, and Intel Arc video cards with confidence. (We've ...

Path tracing can make a game look absolutely astonishing, and although it will still hammer GPUs like nothing else for a good ...

I'm dating myself with this reference, but for anyone who gives a hoot, one thing I learned a long time ago from a cartoon owl is that it takes three licks to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a ...

Building a capable gaming PC relies on two primary components: the CPU and GPU (or graphics card, in common parlance). While having a powerful desktop CPU in your gaming rig is important, the latter ...

Hardware A fraction of the most popular PC games over the past year use hardware-level ray tracing, which is far fewer than I'd predict just 24 months ago Graphics Cards Best graphics cards in 2026: I ...

Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 5050 desktop graphics card announcement was a bit of a surprise—an RTX 4050 desktop card never emerged, so we figured this generation would be no different. But here it is: At ...

Modern laptop graphics cards offer incredible power and, in many cases, impressive efficiency, too. They aren’t quite as easy to break down as the best graphics cards for desktop PCs, because their ...

Buying a new graphics card can be a tricky prospect, full of difficult decisions for even the most experienced of PC builders and gamers. But if you're buying your very first GPU, then it can feel ...

Is there a program to test out this card? I haven't noticed any issues, but.....after reassembling my system, and having issues with getting it up and running, I noticed only 3 of the 4 led's on its ...

I've heard that this is generally a GPU memory issue. The only graphics memory tester I've found (and can figure out how to use) is OCCT v3.1.0's GPU:MEMTEST. The problem is that, when I start the ...

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