If you’re on the hunt for a new graphics card, you’re likely looking at clock rates, how many shader cores, and how much VRAM it’s packing. But don’t underestimate memory bandwidth when shopping around as…
For seven years I’ve been collecting the best PC games every year that don’t need a graphics card, tracking down games for those of us with older computers or laptops. And I love doing it…
Graphics cards are getting so big that they’re bigger than some computers now. A tired joke, perhaps, but it’s absolutely true. There’s plenty of room inside a modern desktop GPU (at least in terms of…
External GPUs are super freakin’ cool, at least to me. Plugging an ultraportable laptop into USB-C and then getting the phenomenal cosmic power of a gaming desktop is my pure, platonic ideal of personal computing.…
Originally a super-fancy form of upscaling, “DLSS” has become gamer shorthand for a host of allegedly AI-powered graphics tricks exclusive to Nvidia’s graphics cards. In the PCWorld lab, Will Smith has been breaking down some…
If you’ve just gone out and bought yourself the biggest, meanest, and most powerful graphics card in the ‘hood — congratulations! you’re in for a wild time gaming! You may be itching to just install…
Valve’s Half-Life 2 is still a wonderful milestone of PC gaming more than 20 years after its original release, but it recently got its dated visuals pumped up with a mod that lets you flex…
Okay, it’s time to stop pretending that the “retail price” of a graphics card means anything at all. AMD made a big press splash about launching its new Radeon RX 9070 cards at $550 and…
If you’re fully immersed in the Apple ecosphere of products, you may not have noticed a big trend that’s happening with computing. No, we’re not talking about AI, though that is the hot trend, it’s…
I apologize to anyone who happens to be walking by my house at the moment, especially if you have children present. The blue streak of cursing emanating from my office window is not meant for…