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, ...
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, Intel, and Qualcomm all have rather anemic desktop processor roadmaps in place for 2026. Combine that with the horrific ...
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 ...
A week into testing Intel’s new Core Ultra X9, the numbers are in. The CPU performance is steady, and the Arc integrated graphics makes PC gaming viable without a GeForce or Radeon chip.
Intel's latest generation of desktop CPUs is the 9000-series Coffee Lake S range based on its 14nm architecture. Luke Larsen / Digital Trends “Why you can trust Digital Trends – We have a 20-year ...
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 ...
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 ...
Graphics Cards Digging a little deeper into Intel's Xe3 architecture shows exactly why Panther Lake's iGPU is good: It's basically an Arc A770 graphics card jammed into a mobile chip Processors Best ...
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 ...
We took the major laptop processors (so far) in 2025 and asked them to stream "One Piece" from Netflix until they ran out of ...