There’s one thing that will strike fear into the heart of any PC gamer: a CPU bottleneck. It’s unimaginable that you wouldn’t get the full power of your GPU when playing games, which is often the most ...

For many PC users, a CPU bottleneck is the scariest thing that can happen to them. The moment they hear this term, their mind conjures up images of crippled performance, lackluster framerates, and ...

Mehrdad (He/Him) is a Senior Staff Writer from Iran. He started writing about video games when he was a high-school student. He loves playing competitive FPS games such as Rainbow Six Siege and ...

A week ago, Microsoft teased a new update to DirectX 12 for developers that will usher in "a new era of performance and efficiency." Today, we've got more details on what the new 'Work Graphs' entail ...

With the launch of new CPUs or GPUs, if there's one thing consumers wait for the most, it's gaming benchmarks. Seeing how the latest and greatest pieces of silicon perform in the latest titles seems ...

Why do we complain about hardware bottlenecks when the software isn't written to take full advantage of all the cores and oomph hardware has? Why is it always the fault of the hardware and not the ...

For AI and similar enterprise workloads that are heavily reliant on GPU and storage resources, CPU bottlenecks can cause significant idle time, but enterprise storage leaders at HighPoint Technologies ...

If you're planning to build a new PC or have been wanting to build one, you've probably come across the term "PC bottlenecking." And you might already know that it's not a good thing. At the core, ...

A more powerful GPU usually means your games run better, but that's not always the case. The CPU's role in tasks and scheduling can bottleneck performance in some instances. Microsoft has been testing ...

With silicon clock scaling largely dead thanks to the laws of physics, computer scientists and chip designers have had to search for performance improvements in other areas -- typically by improving ...

It's taken six months, but Dragon's Dogma 2 PC is finally fixed thanks to the latest update which addresses the frequent random crashes, and more importantly, the CPU bottlenecking that would tank ...

I guess I'm wondering what the "labor" division is between the CPU and video card. If I have a Core i3 with an AMD 6970, what effect would that have on games, compared to a setup with same card but a ...