Video benchmark software tests your computer's hardware during OpenGL and DirectX rendering. A dedicated graphics processing unit, or GPU, usually performs the intensive task of simulating the ...

During its life leading up to KeyShot 9, Luxion’s popular design and rendering tool revolved its computation around the CPU, relying on the GPU only to push the image to the screen. Things have ...

Realtime rendering is the hot topic in CG animation and vfx right now, thanks to a new breed of rendering solutions that harness the power of the latest generation of graphics processors. Launched ...

A more powerful GPU usually means your games run better, but that's not always the case. The CPU's role in tasks and scheduling can bottleneck performance in some instances. Microsoft has been testing ...

A CPU is an integral part of a gaming PC and does a lot of work like feeding information to the graphics card and perform user input. While these are not the only things that the CPU does, you do get ...

Matt Bach is the head of Puget Labs and has been part of Puget Systems, a boutique builder of gaming and workstation PCs, since the early days. This article was originally published on the Puget blog.