There are multiple components that make a computer, the most prominent of which include the CPU, GPU, RAM, and storage. Not only do these parts play a pivotal role in your PC's overall performance, ...
AMD is one of the leading players in the world of graphics processing units (GPUs). But its $5.6 billion deal for ATI Technologies in 2006 also pushed it into the upper crust of the market for PC ...
Marshall Gunnell is a Tokyo-based tech journalist and editor with over a decade of experience covering IT, cybersecurity and data storage. Alongside CNET, his work has appeared in ZDNET, Business ...
Whether you're looking to download a GPU-specific driver, trying to determine whether you'll be able to play a new game at a reasonable frame rate, or checking the specs on an unfamiliar PC, knowing ...
A brief timeline of PC graphics bus interfaces. The history of the Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) bus. The status of the current industry-standard PCI Express (PCIe) bus. Prior to the PC era, ...
Thirty years ago, CPUs and other specialized processors handled virtually all computation tasks. The graphics cards of that era helped to speed up the drawing of 2D shapes in Windows and applications, ...