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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Intel's Core Ultra 5 225 is an economical CPU with performance and features commensurate with its price. Intel's own Core ...

The AMD Ryzen 5 8500G isn't a high-speed desktop CPU, but its built-in graphics processor is faster than most, making it a ...

Most of AMD's upcoming Ryzen 8000 series processors will be based on the company's next-generation Zen 5 processor architecture, and that's a big deal because by all accounts, Zen 5 is going to be a ...

AMD is expected to release its Ryzen 9000 desktop processors later in July, which feature its new Zen 5 architecture, and we're getting our first look at the performance of the new processors thanks ...

AMD's new single-socket Zen 5 EPYC server CPUs claim up to 91% more integer performance than Intel's comparable Xeon, at a ...

A week ago, we were discussing the misconception that CPU performance doesn't matter for 4K gaming. We showed that although sometimes it doesn't matter – as you will indeed end up GPU limited – that's ...

Gamers keep demanding 1440p CPU benchmarks, but higher resolutions often hide the very performance differences CPU testing is ...