How to check specs, graphics card and CPU, on your PC and laptop

How do you find your computer specs? The easiest way to check your specs on PC and laptop is to use our free benchmark test. With our safe and quick download, you can scan your PC for hardware specs and immediately identify what games you can play, and what components you might want to upgrade.

If, however, you’d rather check your specs manually, here’s how you can find every component in your PC without downloading any software.

How to check graphics card

The fastest way to identify the name of your graphics card (beyond using our free benchmark test) is to open the “Device Manager” program, which you can search for in the search bar on Windows 10 and Windows 11.

On opening the Device Manager, locate the “Display adaptors” options and expand the list. You should see only one option if your PC or laptop is using an integrated graphics card, but you may see two if you are using a dedicated GPU.

Alternatively, you can open the Windows Task Manager by right-clicking the “Taskbar” at the bottom of your monitor (the area where your program shortcuts, search bar etc live) and selecting the Task Manager option.

With Task Manager open, click on the Performance icon on the left-hand side (looks like a heartbeat monitor), and you will see the name of your GPU, and how much load it is under.

How to check CPU

On Windows 11 and 10 devices, you can find your processor’s name and speed by navigating to the Settings > System > About page and locating the “Device Specification” tab. There you will find your CPU’s name and speed listed at the top of the tab.

Another way to find your CPU is to search for and open the “Device Manager” program. Find the “Processors” option and expand the list to see the name of your processor. You will likely see several instances of your processor listed there. No need to panic. Every CPU has a number of processing cores which each run one or more threads. For every thread your processor can run, you will see one entry in the Device Manager view.

How to check RAM

To find out how much RAM is installed on your PC, open the Windows Task Manager by right-clicking the “Taskbar” at the bottom of your monitor and select the Task Manager option.

With Task Manager open, click on the Performance tab, and you will see how much RAM has been detected, and how much RAM is currently in use. If you click onto the Memory tab, you can find out how fast your RAM is, how many slots on your motherboard are in use, and what form factor your RAM corresponds to.

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