How to know the graphics card or cards used by our PC
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When we talk about hardware in an operating system, we talk about a large number of components and if you're up-to-date with current affairs, surely you know the problem that affects one of them: the graphics card. An essential part of our team and now we are going to see how we can know what model our PC is using
The graphics card or GPU is an essential part. Basic on all computers, it is even more so on those in which we are going to have a higher level of demand, either for video games or when using certain applications to work with photos, video or plans.
It is important to know which graphics card our PC is using so that we not only know its specifications, but it will also be easier to search and download drivers or find out about possible problems you are having. And for this we are going to use two methods, the first being through Windows and the second with a third-party application.
With the System Information tool
We can use the integrated tools of the operating system and for this we are going to look for the System Information tool. To do this, just go to the start menu and type msinfo32 in the search space to enable the application search engine. Among all the possible results we must look at the section System Information"
By clicking on System Tools we will see how a series of sections appear in the left column. We look at the Components option and enter it in Screen, on which we go to press."
It will then open on the left side a box with all the information on the graphics card that we have installed, both the one integrated in the processor like the one we can have dedicated.
With application CPU-Z
Another method is to use a third-party application such as CPU-Z, a free tool that allows you to know different data and relative specifications to our PC. An application that you can obtain from this link and that we will run.
Once installed, we open it and it is responsible for collecting information from our PC. Once the process is finished, we will see a window with different tabs with the types of information it offers. Of all of them we look at the section Graphics to know the details about the graphics of our computer."
Within Graphics we will have different tabs, one of them being Display Device SelectionClick on it to see the graphics card and its name and when selecting it or selecting them (if we have several) we will see all the details about it (them)."
