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Windows has a benchmark tool so good it makes you wonder why Microsoft never mentioned it

Ask anyone about benchmarking on Windows, and you'll hear about Cinebench, CrystalDiskMark, 3DMark, or one of the many free benchmark programs for Windows that people swear by. All these third-party ...
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Windows has a secret PowerShell command that grades your PC—this is what it means

Let Windows rate your hardware.
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Nvidia’s Windows 11 drivers for RTX Spark confirm 6,144 or 5,120 CUDA cores ahead of launch in the fall

Nvidia has started publishing N1X Windows GPU drivers, but the first release is optimized specifically for the Surface RTX ...
Windows Latest

Windows 11 wins the Steam Machine benchmarks but loses the experience, and you shouldn’t install it

Windows 11 on the Steam Machine was tested against SteamOS across Geekbench, Cinebench, and real gaming benchmarks. See how ...

Steam Machine Benchmarks: Windows 11 Wins at 4K vs Steam OS

Windows 11 vs Steam OS benchmarks reveal minimal real-world gaming differences. We push the RX 7600 mobile GPU to its limits ...
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Should you enable hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling in Windows 11?

There are a whole bunch of ways you can make your games and apps run better in Windows 11. But one of the simplest ways, in theory, is to enable hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling (HAG). Switching on ...