PC part identifier
What is this part actually good for?
Type a model number or photograph the chip, card, or stick. PartLens tells you what the part does — and whether it is still a gaming chip, an office leftover, or a creator tool.
What do you need it to do?
Same silicon, different jobs. Pick a workload to see which parts actually hold up.
Gaming
Games lean on the GPU for every frame and the CPU for world simulation. High-cache CPUs and modern cards with enough VRAM win.
Video & photo
Timelines, effects, and exports love cores, fast storage, plenty of RAM, and a GPU with a hardware encoder.
Office & web
Anything recent is overkill. Quiet, efficient parts with integrated graphics are the smart buy.
Streaming
You need headroom: a GPU encoder so the game keeps its frames, plus a CPU that can run Discord, overlays, and the title.
3D & CAD
Cores, RAM capacity, and a GPU with serious VRAM. Stability and throughput beat refresh-rate chasing.
Local AI
Local AI is almost all GPU VRAM. 12 GB is the floor for useful image models; 24 GB+ for larger language models.
From flagship to leftover
A 2016 card is not a 2026 gaming card. Look up what you actually have.
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
The current gaming CPU to beat — extra cache, not extra cores.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super
The 1440p Ada sweet spot. The card a lot of people actually wanted.
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
The 1080p card of the late 2010s. Today: esports, indie, and low settings.
AMD Ryzen 5 3600
A 2019 hero chip. Fine for office and 1080p; the GPU is the bottleneck now.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090
The no-compromise 4K / AI card. Power, heat, and price are the cost.
Corsair Vengeance DDR5-6000 32 GB
The default AM5 kit. 32 GB at 6000 CL30 is the Ryzen sweet spot.