A Graphics Card is a hardware device that helps in the creation of images in a frame buffer that has its output to a display. For gamers and people who use GPUs to do rendering and other FPU intensive tasks know the details of the GPU. If you are someone who doesn’t know much about it, here is a guide for you to find out what GPU do you have installed on your Windows 11 PC. Presently there are two main dedicated GPU manufacturers Nvidia and AMD. With regards to integrated GPUs, you have Intel and AMD. Now of course both types of GPUs are different and will not have the same performance. Maybe you are at a store or probably looking around for a second-hand system, it would be helpful to know what GPU is in it if the dedicated GPU software has not been installed on it. So, if you have been in such a situation or you simply want to know what GPU is in the system, read on to know how you can find out the GPU on a Windows 11 PC.
How to Check Graphics Card in Windows 11
There are a couple of ways that you can use to find out which Graphics Card has been installed on your Windows 11 PC. Let’s get started right away.
1. Check Graphics Card via Device Manager
The best place to check what hardware is installed on your system is the Device Manager. The Device Manager will show you all your hardware, lets you check for driver updates as well as enable or disable certain hardware according to your wish.
2. Check Graphics Card via Task Manager
Now we all know that the task manager is used to check how fast your system has booted, running services, and see what apps are starting when the system starts up. You can even enable or disable startup apps and even terminate services that are not responding well. You can also check hardware details.
3. Check Graphics Card via DirectX Diagnostic Tool
4. Check Graphics Card via Display Adaptor Settings
There is another way that you can check what graphics card your Windows 11 system has. Well, there surely is a lot of ways for you to see what GPU you have for free using Windows 11 itself.
5. Check Graphics Card via Third-Party Software
If you wish to know everything in detail about your GPU, the best software to use is CPU-Z. It is a very small and lightweight program that gives you a ton of information about your Windows 11 PC. From CPU, Memory, RAM, GPU, Caches, and even details about the motherboard. This is a free-to-use program and weighs in at just 2 MB.
Conclusion
So, there you have it. Many simple and easy ways for you to find out what GPU do you have installed in your system running Windows 11. If you have any other methods that are not mentioned here, do let us know in the comments. Also, tell us which one do you think is the fastest and easiest method to find. Also Check:
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