Quick answers before you test
Check it yourself on Windows 11 or 10
Press Ctrl + Shift + Esc to open Task Manager, choose Performance, then GPU 0 — and GPU 1 if there is one. The model is at the top right and the dedicated memory under the graphs. Pressing Win + R and running dxdiag shows the same on its Display tab.
Check it yourself on a Mac
Apple menu, then About This Mac. On Apple silicon the graphics are part of the chip, so the chip name (M2, M3 Pro…) is the answer; an Intel Mac lists its graphics card on the same screen.
Check it yourself on Linux
In a terminal, lspci | grep -iE "vga|3d" lists every graphics device, and glxinfo -B (from mesa-utils) names the one that is drawing. Both work on SteamOS in desktop mode too.
On a gaming laptop, look for two
Most gaming laptops have an integrated GPU for the desktop and a dedicated one for games. Task Manager shows them as GPU 0 and GPU 1; the NVIDIA GeForce or AMD Radeon RX one runs your games, and is the one to pick here.
What the result actually measures
Browsers can read the name of the graphics chip they draw with. WebGL hands over the driver’s renderer string — “NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU, Direct3D 11”, for example — and WebGPU adds the vendor and architecture of each chip the browser can use. The page decodes that into a card, places it on a scale of graphics speed where a desktop RTX 3060 is 100, and checks it against the minimum and recommended cards the publishers of more than 50 games print: whether the game starts at all (ray tracing, Vulkan 1.3), which tier the card reaches, and whether its video memory, your RAM and your version of Windows clear the rest of each tier.
Measurement boundary: A browser sees the chip it draws with, not always the one your games use: on a laptop with two GPUs it usually reports the integrated one. It cannot read video memory, the processor model or more than 8 GB of RAM, so those come from the card’s usual specification or from you. Verdicts compare your card with the publisher’s own tier cards; they are not frame-rate measurements, and one publisher’s “recommended” can mean 1080p at 30 fps while another’s means 1440p at 60.
How to interpret the output
At or above recommended
Your card reaches the publisher’s recommended card, within 5%. Expect what the publisher describes for that tier; the game’s row quotes it when they state one.
Minimum
It reaches the minimum card but not the recommended one: the game runs, at lower settings or resolution. Upscaling (DLSS, FSR or XeSS) usually wins back part of the gap.
Below minimum
Your card is slower than the slowest card the publisher lists. Many games still start; the publisher simply does not promise a playable frame rate. Within 15% of the minimum, the page says “just under”.
Will not start
A hard requirement the card lacks: hardware ray tracing, which no GTX card and no Radeon older than the RX 6000 series has, or Vulkan 1.3 for Minecraft: Java Edition. No setting works around it.
VRAM, RAM and Windows 11
Lines a tier sets apart from the card. A card can reach a tier and still have less video memory than it asks for; a PC with less RAM than the tier stutters; a game whose minimum is Windows 11 may refuse Windows 10.
Troubleshooting unexpected results
It says software renderer or Basic Render Driver
The browser is not using your GPU. Turn on “Use graphics acceleration when available” in the System section of Chrome or Edge settings, restart the browser, and install the graphics driver from NVIDIA, AMD or Intel; a fresh Windows install with no driver reads this way too.
It found my integrated graphics, not my GeForce or Radeon
Laptops run the browser on the power-saving chip. In Windows Settings, System, Display, Graphics, set your browser to High performance and reload — or simply pick your card from the list.
Firefox shows a “similar” card, or Safari shows Apple GPU
Both hide the exact name on purpose, so a site cannot use it to recognise you. Pick your card from the list, or open the page in Chrome or Edge.
My card is not in the list
The list covers every card a current game names and the common ones around them. Pick the closest card of the same generation with the same memory, and the verdicts will be close.
Frequently asked questions
What GPU do I have?
Open this page on your PC: the name at the top is the graphics chip your browser is using, read from the driver. On Windows you can confirm it in Task Manager under Performance and GPU; on a Mac under About This Mac.
How do I check what graphics card I have on Windows 11?
Press Ctrl + Shift + Esc, open Performance and click GPU 0 or GPU 1: the model is at the top right. Device Manager, under Display adapters, and the Display tab of dxdiag show it too.
Can a website tell what graphics card I have?
Its name, yes, in Chrome and Edge: WebGL reports the renderer string the driver gives. Firefox rounds it to a similar card and Safari hides it. No website can read your video memory, temperatures or clock speeds.
Can my PC run this game?
Find the game in the list. Its verdict compares your card with the publisher’s own minimum and recommended cards, and checks ray tracing, video memory, RAM and Windows 11 where the game asks for them. Games with their own PC check page link to it for the full table.
Why does my laptop show a different GPU than the one I bought?
Gaming laptops have two GPUs, and the browser normally runs on the integrated one to save power while your games use the dedicated card. Pick the dedicated card here, or set the browser to High performance in the Windows graphics settings.
How much VRAM does my graphics card have?
A browser cannot read it. The page shows the usual amount for your model and flags cards sold in two sizes, such as the RTX 3060 with 8 or 12 GB. Task Manager, under Performance and GPU, shows your exact dedicated GPU memory.
Does this page upload anything?
No. The card is read and judged inside the page. If you pick a card it is remembered only in this browser, so the game pages with a PC check show it too.
