For decades, PC enthusiasts have run around their systems looking for and fixing GPU and CPU bottlenecks. The reason why is simple: A bottleneck might cut you off from extra performance in your PC.

In this piece, I explain with data why when testing a CPU's gaming prowess, we pair powerful flagship tier graphics cards, like an RTX 4090, and run them at lower resolutions like 1080p or 720p. For ...

I've been watching and reading CPU reviews for quite a while. For the past few CPU generations, it seems like reviewers have added several useful workloads (e.g. tile-based rendering and video ...

PC bottleneck detection helps pinpoint which component limits performance when games stutter, apps lag, or multitasking feels sluggish. Many slow PC diagnosis issues surface through simple observation ...

If your PC doesn’t deliver the desired performance in a particular game, it’s usually—but not always—due to two limiting factors. Either your processor (CPU) or your graphics card (GPU) is ...

Gamers keep demanding 1440p CPU benchmarks, but higher resolutions often hide the very performance differences CPU testing is ...

Bottleneck calculators are looked upon as useful matchmakers of PC hardware. Ostensibly, they help gamers decide whether certain CPU and GPU components should be shackled together inside their PC ...

The Bottleneck is the term used to define the stage where the output has reached its maximum value. In computing, Bottleneck is a situation where a computer component has reached its maximum output ...

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Multi-core processors theoretically can run many threads of code in parallel, but some categories of operation currently bog down attempts to raise overall performance by parallelizing computing. Is ...