Better than taking a wild guess

Your new Windows 11 app or game has a list of minimum and recommended hardware requirements. You’ll find a graphics card on that list, but how do you know which card you have in your PC?

There are several ways to identify your current graphics card. But before we do that, we should take a moment to explain how graphics card names work.

Desktop cards are usually designed and manufactured by third-party “board partners.” The first part of the name is the brand of that particular board partner. This includes companies like Gigabyte, MSI, Asus, and so on.