My desire to power up a laptop with an external graphics card began in 2015, when I set out on a quest to get back into PC gaming—a beloved pastime I’d neglected since childhood. But the only PC I had ...

NVIDIA graphics cards plug into your computer's internal peripheral component interconnect express, or PCI-e, slots. These internal slots give them a direct connection to your computer and allow them ...

While testing Halo Wars Definitive Edition on my Surface Book, I noticed that it wasn't using the powerful discrete NVIDIA GPU, defaulting instead to the integrated graphics. When you purchase through ...

Computers use video cards to render graphics. Gaming and multimedia applications contain code that tells the video card what images it needs the card to create on the screen. NVIDIA video cards ...

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 ...

Budget gaming PC enthusiasts are still waiting for desktop Nvidia RTX 4060 graphics card models, but there's a chance it'll be a laptop GPU in disguise. Fresh leaks suggest the entry-level option uses ...

Pssst—there’s a secret that few in the PC gaming community know: You actually can upgrade your big-fat gaming laptop’s graphics. But even the few who know it ...

Nvidia has just announced the upcoming release of three new graphics cards: The GeForce RTX 2050, GeForce MX570, and GeForce MX550. All three cards are aimed at entry-level laptop gaming. We now know ...

TL;DR: NVIDIA's RTX 5050 desktop GPU has again been rumored to use 8GB of GDDR6 memory, and we've got more specific details in a fresh leak, namely that those VRAM modules will be supplied by Samsung ...

Your laptop is equipped with a graphics card, also called a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), but you may not know the exact model name. You might want to find out for various reasons, such as checking ...

Cameron Faulkner is an editor covering deals and commerce. He joined in 2018, and served as commerce editor at Polygon until May 2025. Nvidia’s announcement of its new GTX 1660 Ti and 1650 mobile ...