Computer video cards process all the graphical data on the machine, including 3D rendering and video files. Though manufacturers primarily market them to computer gamers, video cards can also enhance ...

For gamers, a new video card has long been the king of upgrades. It began with the release of id Software's Quake, way back in 1996 -- while you could play it without a dedicated GPU, the shooter ...

If you're a PC gamer, you know that upgrading your computer's video card will give you the best gaming performance boost. PCWorld argues, however, that a discrete graphics card belongs in most ...

A single video card that supports a dual-monitor setup can handle running two screens at the same time: it is not necessary to have two video cards to run two monitors on one computer. Video cards ...

There was a time when no PC could play a decent game unless it was outfitted with a discrete graphics processor. Today, most off-the-shelf desktop rigs—and nearly all notebook PCs—rely entirely on the ...

My daughter is starting to dabble in PC gaming and her interests have finally exceeded the old PC I had kicking around for media conversion duties. It is an Athlon x2 240 with 10GB of ram and a Radeon ...

Our current crop of popular PC games has shown us that the video card has now become the most important component in a gaming system. The CPU and the video card used to be of equal importance in the ...

These days, video cards are virtually supercomputers. When they aren’t driving your screen, they are decoding video, crunching physics models, or processing large-language model algorithms. But it ...

“Are you sure you want this?” the salesman asked me. It was the day before Christmas, and I was in a large electronics store looking to buy a video card for a computer I was assembling. The card was ...

At the end of January, Carnegie Mellon computer scientists achieved a major milestone: their algorithm, Libratus, beat a set of professional poker players in a 120,000-hand tournament. While humans ...