A new mini gaming PC benchmarking tool has just been released, and it's designed to push your hardware to its limits. Featuring five times the ray tracing demands of its predecessor, the new 3DMark ...

A recent benchmark from PC Games Hardware suggests that, at least for some games, Proton has nearly eliminated the performance cost of running Windows code on ...

Intel launched its long-awaited Core Ultra Series 3 “Panther Lake” mobile chips at CES 2026 this week, promising an alluring blend of long battery life and shockingly great integrated graphics ...

Frame rate gains and caveats aside, Panther Lake and Xe3 graphics are hype-worthy because they can turn a whole range of ...

There are two ways to measure the performance of PC components: synthetic benchmarks like 3DMark or PCMark, and real-world benchmarks that test performance in games and various software using ...

When a highly anticipated PC game debuts, how will it run on some of the most popular GPUs on the market? What visual tricks and features does it include, and what does that mean for immersion and the ...

The best gaming laptop can mean different things to different people, but it's something we spend a lot of time thinking about and testing ourselves on PC Gamer. In fact, of all the hundreds of ...

Building a gaming PC build 2026 revolves around next-generation hardware capable of pushing 8K, 240Hz gaming with full path tracing. The combination of an RTX 6090 and the Zen 6 Ryzen 9 11950X3D ...

But the laptop remains big, hot, and just a little too expensive.

What if you could fit the power of a high-end gaming rig into a system no bigger than a shoebox? The dream of building a compact PC that doesn’t compromise on performance has long felt out of reach ...

Learning about PC gaming's power and customization versus cloud gaming's accessibility and convenience—defining the future of game streaming by 2030. Pixabay, Setupx99 The gaming industry continues to ...