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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hands-on testing, real-world insights, and side-by-side comparisons of the latest Processors from editors who know what matters most.

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 ...

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