It is possible that you do not know which graphics card you have or do not remember the exact model. It is not necessary either, since you can find out this information in a few clicks. windows will remind us what graphics card do we have in our team and it can even give us other relevant information, such as its operating temperature.
One of the newest and little known features of Windows is that it gives us information about the graphics card. A few years ago, the monitoring function for this component was introduced into the task manager. Until then, it only monitored the processor, RAM, hard drive and internet connection.
Where to see what graphics card my computer has
We are going to explain the different methods to see the graphic card or cards that we have installed. It can be seen in several places, but the first of the possibilities is, without a doubt, the best of all.
Task Manager
Without a doubt, it is the easiest to access, with just three mouse clicks and less than 10 seconds we arrive. The steps to follow are very simple:
- Right click on the Windows bar
- Now we click, obviously, on the Task Manager
- Once inside, we go to the tab Performance
- Click on the option GPUs
- Note: If your computer’s processor has integrated graphics and you have a dedicated graphics installed, you will see two GPUs. GPU 0 is the integrated one and will be from Intel or AMD. GPU 1 is the dedicated one and this can be from NVIDIA, AMD or Intel
One of the cool things to see the model from here is that it tells us the temperature. We will be able to see the temperature at which the GPU is at that moment.
Device administrator
Another fairly easy way to check this information is from the device manager. Here we will obtain other useful information such as, for example, if we have the installer drivers. Note that Windows installs some “basic” drivers to work and then you have to install those from the manufacturer of the graphics card. To access we must:
- Right click on the Windows icon in the lower left corner
- Within the drop-down menu we search and click on Device administrator
- A window opens and the first option is Display adapters
- Press and there we will see the graphics card (or graphics) that we have in our computer
DXDiag
The DirectX API, required to play any computer game, includes a diagnostic tool. This tool is quite complete and collects all the information from our team. It gives us a little more technical information, although it does not give parameters such as the number of cores of the graphics card. If you want to see the data in this tool, follow these steps:
- In the search engine of the Windows bar we introduce DXDiag and press enter
- The window opens DirectX Diagnostic Tool
- We have to go to the tab Screen
- If we have more than one graphics card in the system, several will appear with the data of each of them
- Here we will see model, manufacturer, amount of VRAM memory and other data
manufacturer’s software
Currently, both AMD and NVIDIA have their own software tools for optimizing, monitoring, and updating drivers. NVIDIA has the GeForce Experience software and AMD has the Adrenalin Edition Software. The two tools are basically similar, although they have their design and configuration peculiarities.
In both cases, within the software configuration it will tell us the graphics card we have, in addition to other data.
