Intel’s Panther Lake generation is almost ready to hit store shelves, with the first Core Ultra Series 3 laptops expected to ...

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, ...

This CPU ranking list helps you to choose the right AMD Ryzen or Intel Core processor. The basis for this are current tests, comparisons and benchmarks from us. We recommend the best CPUs for gaming, ...

A new PassMark database entry is giving us another early look at Intel’s rumored Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus, a flagship-class Arrow Lake Refresh mobile CPU that still hasn’t been formally introduced.

Although a PC’s gaming performance is primarily driven by its graphics card, the beating heart in any computer is still the CPU. As soon as you press the power button, whenever you open the Windows ...

TL;DR: AMD's Ryzen 5 5500X3D, a new Zen 3 processor, shows strong synthetic performance with Geekbench scores of 1936 (single-core) and 9292 (multi-core), outperforming the Ryzen 5 5500 by up to 13%.

AMD is preparing to launch the final CPU in its X3D family, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D. It launched the Ryzen 9 CPUs, the 7950X3D and 7900X3D, but the reason it didn't launch all three seems obvious: The ...

Whenever you’re building a new gaming PC, you’re going to have to decide between Intel and AMD for your processor. However, as the years go on, the right answer is constantly changing. For instance, ...

With two maxed out teams of AI bots, Overwatch is quite CPU intensive. That said, while the Core i7 processors were considerably faster than the Core i3 and FX-series processors, it's important to ...