The best PC games of 2024 (that don’t need a graphics card)
I’ve been writing these roundups for seven years running and in that time integrated graphics have gotten a lot more powerful. Just look at the Steam Deck and its many imitators: it’s […]
Tag: graphics
AI upscaling killed native graphics gaming. We’re better off for it
Even for me, someone who’s an avid graphics card hardware enthusiast, it took some time to warm up to the idea of AI rdesolution upscaling. But this newfangled technology has been embraced […]
The next generation of PC graphics will kick off at CES 2025
The graphics card hype train left the station weeks before CES 2025 kicks off in early January, with the launch of Intel’s $249 Arc B580 – the GPU we’ve begged for since […]
AMD’s Ryzen AI Max is a one-of-a-kind graphics and AI powerhouse
AMD has launched what one executive called “the most advanced mobile X86 processor ever created” at CES 2025: The Ryzen AI Max and AI Max+, with absolutely massive capabilities to run graphics […]
First look: Custom Nvidia 50-series and Radeon 9070 graphics cards
CES is kind of huge this year. We’ve got big new announcements from almost every major PC company, including new GPUs from both Nvidia and (to an admittedly lesser extent) AMD. And […]
How to Overclock Your Graphics Card
Many PC gamers eagerly await the release of next-generation graphics cards, hoping that the new hardware will boost frame rates and enhance eye candy in the latest games. However, while a graphics […]
Choose the Right Graphics Card: 2012 Edition
Modern graphics cards are intimidating, hulking beasts in a world of increasingly tiny PC components. Most of them are double-wide, occupying two expansion-slot spaces, even though they use only a single physical […]
How to trick out your gaming PC with multiple graphics cards
The simplest way to make your PC games look better is to buy a better graphics card. If you already have the best graphics card money can buy (one of these, perhaps), the […]
Hands-on with the new Asus RTX 50-series graphics cards
It feels like there are a million variations of every graphics card on the market. There aren’t, but looking at the search results for “4070” on Amazon, you could be forgiven for […]
How to use an external graphics card with a laptop
My desire to power up a laptop with an external graphics card began in 2015, when I set out on a quest to get back into PC gaming—a beloved pastime I’d neglected […]