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 ...

3DMark Port Royal is the world’s first real-time ray tracing benchmark for gamers. It shows you how well your PC handles ray-tracing effects in real time. Use Port Royal to benchmark graphics cards ...

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Time Spy Extreme is a new 4K DirectX 12 benchmark test, available in 3DMark Advanced and Professional Editions. You don’t need a 4K monitor to run it, but you will need a GPU with at least 4 GB of ...

The best graphics cards are much more complex processors than their predecessors as they perform a wide variety of tasks that were previously limited in scope or done by the CPU. They do this because ...

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A new AMD Ryzen CPU with a mightily powerful integrated Radeon GPU appears to have just beaten the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 in a benchmark leak. The new CPU is reportedly a part of the new AMD Strix ...

When Nvidia first announced the RTX 5000 series of graphics cards at CES 2025, it was clear that the company would be leaning even further into AI with these products. As anyone who follows enterprise ...

A next-gen AMD Ryzen gaming CPU has had its Geekbench benchmarks posted publicly, weeks before it was expected to debut at CES 2025. Rumored to be AMD's flagship processor of the new Strix Halo line, ...

Graphics card prices are skyrocketing and there doesn't appear to be relief in sight, but these older graphics cards may ...