What graphics card do I have?

How can a website tell what graphics card I have?

Through WebGL, the standard your browser uses to draw 3D graphics. To render anything it has to talk to your actual card, and it can report that card's name back to the page. Nothing is installed and nothing is scanned — the browser simply answers a question it is designed to answer. Any site can ask it; most do so to decide which visual effects to enable.

Why does it say I have an integrated graphics chip?

Laptops carry two graphics processors: a low-power one built into the processor and a faster discrete one. Browsers often run on the integrated chip to save battery, so that is the one reported, even though games will use the discrete card. If the result looks too weak for your machine, plug in the charger, or set your browser to high performance in the Windows graphics settings, and try again.

Why did it not detect anything?

Safari deliberately reports a generic renderer rather than your real card, and Firefox does the same when fingerprint resistance is enabled. Both are privacy measures working as intended. Chrome and Edge on Windows generally report the real card. If yours does not, choosing from the full list takes a few seconds and gets you to exactly the same place.

Can you detect my processor too?

No, and neither can anyone else. There is no browser interface that exposes the processor model to a web page. The only related thing available is the number of logical processors, which narrows the possibilities but cannot identify the chip. Any site claiming to detect your CPU in a browser is inferring it from that count. On Windows, Task Manager's Performance tab names it exactly.

Is my hardware information being stored?

No. This page is a static file with no server behind it. Everything it reads is read in your browser, used to render what you see, and discarded when you close the tab. There is nowhere for it to be sent and no record kept.

Finding it yourself, without a browser

It is worth knowing the manual route, because it is the only one that is certain and it also tells you the driver version. On Windows, press Ctrl+Shift+Esc to open Task Manager, go to Performance, and select GPU — the model is named in the top right. Or press Windows+R, type dxdiag, and read the Display tab. On macOS, open the Apple menu and choose About This Mac. On Linux, run lspci | grep -i vga.

Once you have the name, every card we model has a page with estimated frame rates from 1080p to 4K, the processors that pair well with it, and whether its memory is enough for current games. There are 126 of them in the full list.