I've been working on upgrading my test rig for a while, but it got to the point that I was waiting on hardware for far too long... so I shifted over to new partners and it sped up considerably. I'm ...

Just like your PC’s system memory, graphics cards and laptop GPUs have their own memory, called VRAM (video RAM). Graphics memory is mostly important for gaming, but there are productivity and ...

I had a feeling we might be in for a bumpy ride with the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 when I was told there wouldn't be a press driver available in advance of the release. Why would Nvidia not want reviews ...

Simply using the best graphics card isn't enough if you want top gaming performance. Knowing how much VRAM your graphics card has is also incredibly important. Most games need a certain amount of VRAM ...

Gone are the days of spending countless hours perfecting a specific configuration for my CPU, GPU, RAM, and motherboard to achieve maximum performance from my system. It's hard to believe a decade has ...

Choosing the right upgrade—RAM or GPU first—depends on identifying your PC's bottleneck to maximize gaming performance and system balance. Pixabay, jarmoluk Upgrading a gaming PC enhances overall ...

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 ...

Microsoft has devised a system to massively reduce the amount of VRAM required by ray tracing in games, potentially meaning that we don't need to keep piling more and more memory onto future graphics ...