A week into testing Intel’s new Core Ultra X9, the numbers are in. The CPU performance is steady, and the Arc integrated graphics makes PC gaming viable without a GeForce or Radeon chip.

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2024 is an exciting year for Windows. While the AI features touted by Microsoft’s Copilot+ PCs are a flat miss, the new Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite hardware inside Copilot+ PCs is a definite win.

The integrated RDNA graphics hardware inside AMD's latest Ryzen 7000 desktop CPU range features only 2 compute units with up to 0.563 TFLOPs of performance. It's the first time AMD put RDNA graphics ...

Laptops have fewer upgrade opportunities than desktops, so the question of whether your laptop's built-in GPU can handle gaming makes a big difference as to how ...

For years, integrated graphics have been synonymous with compromise, a “good enough” solution for basic tasks but never a contender for serious gaming or demanding applications. But what if that ...

Today AMD is extending its technical driver preview of Fluid Motion Frames 2 (AFMF 2) to include newer Ryzen AI 300 series processors. So, if you have a PC with Strix Point — such as the ASUS Zenbook ...

Intel’s Core Ultra Series 3 chips (code-named “Panther Lake”) were one of the stars of CES 2026, promising efficient processing and, most notably, markedly improved graphics performance. (Indeed, we ...