If you want to squeeze the utmost performance out of your PC, you can use your graphics card’s memory as temporary storage. Several experimental tools, such as VRAMDISK and GpuRamDrive, allow you to ...

When you're setting out to get a new gaming PC or laptop, you've probably noticed there are quite a few models out there without an Nvidia or AMD graphics chip. These devices usually come with an ...

But there’s one spec that has caused some concern among Ars staffers and others with their eyes on the Steam Machine: The GPU comes with just 8GB of dedicated graphics RAM, an amount that is steadily ...

A graphics card plugged into a PCI Express slot on the computer's motherboard. Also called "discrete graphics," dedicated graphics contain a GPU and memory and always push the envelope in rendering ...

GPUs are crucial to modern computing. You're probably reading this on a screen that's making use of a GPU. But what is a GPU? What are they good for? Join us for a layman's overview. A graphics ...

Apple's UMA design -- a single, fixed pool of RAM integrated into the die with the CPU, GPU and NPU -- makes Mac and MacBook configuration choices a little different than it used to be.