The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) is updating its most important benchmark after nine years: Following ...

In this piece, I explain with data why when testing a CPU's gaming prowess, we pair powerful flagship tier graphics cards, like an RTX 4090, and run them at lower resolutions like 1080p or 720p. For ...

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 ...

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 ...

PC bottleneck detection helps pinpoint which component limits performance when games stutter, apps lag, or multitasking feels sluggish. Many slow PC diagnosis issues surface through simple observation ...

Apple’s M5 Pro and M5 Max make deceptively large changes to how Apple’s high-end laptop and desktop chips are built. We’ve already covered those changes in some depth, but in essence: The M5 Pro and ...

It’s not uncommon for a laptop to lose some of its pep over time. The good news is that there is often something you can do about it — whether that means updating drivers, goosing the processor ...

Unified gaming hub: Winhanced merges Xbox, Steam, Epic, and GOG libraries into one console-style interface for handheld PCs, with features like cloud gaming and remote play. Performance boost coming: ...

New performance boost: Windows 11's Low Latency Profile briefly spikes CPU speed to cut app and menu load times by up to 70%. Part of K2 plan: The feature is one of several under Microsoft's K2 ...

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