Video benchmark software tests your computer's hardware during OpenGL and DirectX rendering. A dedicated graphics processing unit, or GPU, usually performs the intensive task of simulating the ...

During its life leading up to KeyShot 9, Luxion’s popular design and rendering tool revolved its computation around the CPU, relying on the GPU only to push the image to the screen. Things have ...

Ahead of NVIDIA’s annual GPU Technology Conference in San Jose last week, Chaos Group teased its next-gen V-Ray GPU rendering architecture, aptly named ‘V-Ray GPU’. Ultimately, V-Ray 3.6 will become 4 ...

Maxon’s popular Cinebench CPU benchmarking program just got a long-overdue update to bring it up to parity with modern PCs. We’ve already tried it, on two of the most powerful CPUs you can buy today, ...

Desktop PCs were the first computer category PCMag, in its infancy, started out covering, and they're still one of the most important. (They're in our very name, after all.) And we've been testing ...

As a writer and photographer, I use a 14-inch M3 MacBook Pro on a daily basis, and the time has come to consider an upgrade.

What will Intel's upcoming Alder Lake CPUs bring to the performance spectrum? Perhaps a retaking of the crown against AMD's finest. That is getting waaaay ahead of things, but if you are pulling for ...

With the new processor family consisting of variants for professional workstations and high-end desktops, AMD says the Threadripper 9000 series can beat Intel’s competing products by as much as 119 ...