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 ...

Responsible for rendering images and videos, the GPU, or the Graphical Processing Unit, is an essential component of any computer. It is what lets you enjoy applications that utilize 3D graphics, such ...

If you bought an Nvidia RTX 5090, 5080, 5070 Ti, or (probably) the upcoming RTX 5070, you should check if it's missing ROPs and therefore you're missing out on performance. As many as 0.5% of all ...

These days, computers are designed to handle far more than simple emails and calculations. In the modern era, they can pull off anything from film and TV streaming to the creation of complex digital ...

Overclocking your graphics card can significantly boost your gaming performance, but it requires careful steps to ensure safety and stability. MSI Afterburner is a powerful and user-friendly tool that ...

If you've just spent your hard-earned cash on a brand new Nvidia GeForce RTX 5000 graphics card, the last thing you want is a hard-to-spot fault running your gaming performance. One such fault with ...

Each GPU has a maximum temperature set by the manufacturer that is considered safe. As long as the graphics chip operates within these specifications, everything is fine. As soon as temperatures rise, ...

Whether you’ve been playing PC games for years or you’re building your first gaming PC, picking the right graphics card is probably one of the most consequential choices. It doesn’t help that now ...

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 ...