It’s been nearly a year since we last took an in-depth look at viewport performance with the help of SPEC’s SPECviewperf, and with the recent release of its 2020 v3.1 update, we felt now was a good ...

Earlier this week, Intel released a graphics driver update that according to the chipmaker, boosts graphics performance by up to 30% for devices with 4th generation Haswell processors, in addition to ...

There are a whole bunch of ways you can make your games and apps run better in Windows 11. But one of the simplest ways, in theory, is to enable hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling (HAG). Switching on ...

The recent January 2026 Windows 11 patch was rumored to have led to Nvidia GPUs underperforming, which has since been ...

Windows 11 can feel sluggish long before your hardware is truly outdated, especially if its power profile, drivers and graphics settings are working against you. With a handful of targeted tweaks, I ...

Matt Elliott is a senior editor at CNET with a focus on laptops and streaming services. Matt has more than 20 years of experience testing and reviewing laptops. He has worked for CNET in New York and ...

Analysts say an Arm chip leveraging Blackwell GPU architecture could eliminate long‑standing Windows‑on‑Arm trade‑offs and ...

Hogwarts Legacy is open-world action RPG set in the Harry Potter universe. Having launched to very enthusiastic user reviews, it's time we benchmark it and we have a ton of data for you. We have 53 ...