Sunday 6 January 2013

This Utility Will Tell You All About the Graphics Card on Your PC

The way we use computers these days requires a lot more graphics capability than it used to. But there’s a quick and easy way to check what kind of graphics memory is on a PC. Use the free lightweight utility from Techpowerup called GPU-Z to reveal all the vital statistics for your GPU. The figure below shows the kind of detail that is given. (Note that because of the kind of system information it accesses you will be asked to grant permission for it to run.)


There is also a tab with statistics from sensors such as the GPU temperature. An example is shown in the next figure.

The utility is a single stand-alone file that needs no installing. It runs on all current Windows systems including Windows 8.