One of the best ways to evaluate the performance of your CPU is to run one of the many great benchmarks that are available. They’ll test its raw performance in both single-threaded and multi-threaded ...

AMD’s follow-up, the Ryzen 7 9850X3D, is technically faster, but you’d be hard-pressed to tell them apart when you’re ...

TL;DR: PassMark has crunched its benchmark data and observed a drop in CPU performance so far in 2025, theorizing about whether this might be down to hardware, or software issues (such as bloatware, ...

The Ryzen 7 9850X3D mostly does what it says it does: It’s a mild speed bump to AMD’s best gaming processor that, in most ...

We've tested Intel's Panther Lake flagship laptop chip, the Core Ultra X9 388H, and we're very impressed with the Core Ultra ...

If you want to stress test and benchmark your new CPU inside of 3DMark, you can now finally do just that with UL Benchmarks' latest update to 3DMark. The new 3DMark CPU Profile will test your CPU ...

Good news is continuing to gather around AMD’s second-generation “Rome” Epyc processors. The company’s newly minted Epyc 7H12 chip has established new highwater marks in four SPECrate benchmarks, as ...

In case you missed it, at CES 2026 AMD actually did have a few consumer announcements despite that the keynote was almost ...

What with the ongoing 13th and 14th Gen CPU debacle, wouldn't it be nice if Intel had a hot new generation of desktop processors to fix everything. In theory, that would be Arrow Lake, due out later ...

A week into testing Intel’s new Core Ultra X9, the numbers are in. The CPU performance is steady, and the Arc integrated ...

SAN MATEO, Calif. — The first benchmarks measuring the performance of network processors are emerging as the Network Processing Forum and The Linley Group complete the first steps of their parallel ...

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