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Matti Robinson is a veteran of the industry originally from Finland, with nearly 20 years of writing and editing experience. His love for gaming started with the Commodore 64 and grew with each ...

Many of us wonder what the point of a graphics card or Graphics Processing System (GPU) in our computers is. Few people think it’s only for those who play games. But having a graphics card is not just ...

The new Khadas Mind Graphics 2 is a 2nd-gen external graphics dock with a new GPU that Khadas says is “positioned in the ‘sweet spot.’ While the company’s original graphics dock had an NVIDIA GeForce ...

AMD has seemingly just inadvertently confirmed the existence of a CPU that's rumored to give you more gaming power than a PlayStation 5 without needing a graphics card. In fact, in terms of core specs ...

For years, "integrated graphics" technically lived near the CPU – but not on it. Early PC platforms paired a CPU with a northbridge chipset containing a GPU, and later, some products placed a GPU on ...

Four Ryzen CPU cores deliver plenty of processing oomph, and those are paired with eight Radeon Vega compute units that let the Ryzen 3 2200G play PC games even if you don’t have a graphics card. Its ...

I'm a senior analyst charged with testing and reviewing VPNs and other security apps for PCMag. I grew up in the heart of Silicon Valley and have been involved with technology since the 1990s.

Well, the title about says it all. Potentially, a dual system is cheaper then a single CPU with a top of the line video card. There was some talk of the CPU retaking some or all of the tasks now ...

The Mini Maker Turbo Mini X is a compact desktop computer that measures just 215 x 180 x 36mm (8.5″ x 7″ x 1.4″) and has an internal volume of 1.4 liters. While it’s hardly the smallest desktop ...

CPU (Central Processing Unit) is the most important part of a computer. All the calculations needed to run a particular task or application on a computer are processed by the CPU. That’s why it is ...