Whether you're upgrading your desktop PC or building a new one, choosing the right processor is the most crucial and complex ...

In a surprise first for the ages, PassMark has revealed that the average CPU performance on desktops and laptops in 2025 has declined year-on-year. Despite new Intel Arrow Lake and AMD Fire Range ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. PassMark has made an interesting observation about CPU performance in that in 2025, it's now heading downwards - for the first time ever possibly, or ...

Intel says its new Wildcat Lake Core 3 Series chip family is built for affordable laptops. My first wave of tests shows ...

A new AMD Ryzen CPU benchmark leak has just appeared, and it shows the potentially awesome power of the company's new Threadripper CPUs for multi-threading work. This new leak appears to show the raw ...

Early benchmark testing of NVIDIA’s upcoming “Vera” server processor suggests the company’s next-generation Arm-based CPU platform may become a serious competitor to both Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC in ...

Four of AMD's forthcoming Zen 5 CPUs have apparently just been benchmarked, and their results show a definite uptick in performance compared to the company's current chips. This latest AMD Ryzen ...

Here’s how all the mobile chipsets from the last two and a half years stack up. The gap between smartphone chips in 2026 is absurd. The fastest chip ...

Year after year, CPUs get faster. Even a midrange chip from today's PCs can run circles around the fastest processors from a decade ago. But last year? That's debatable. According to the makers of ...

Modern processors are designed to increase their clock speeds automatically when additional performance is needed. In Windows 11, a setting called Processor Performance Boost Mode lets you control how ...

The Ryzen 7 9800X3D is the world's fastest gaming processor, and AMD just priced it like they need to move it.