AMD and Intel dominate today's desktop processor market, and we review all their key releases, using a wide range of tests to evaluate performance across various scenarios. Considering architecture, ...

TL;DR: PassMark has been aggregating CPU performance data for nearly two decades based on collective scores recorded through its benchmarking software. For the first time in 20 years, however, the ...

Intel's already-launched 13th-gen CPUs, code-named "Raptor Lake," are fantastically-fast and reasonably-priced, too. They're also pretty hot and power-thirsty. While that's to be expected for ...

The AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 9755 processor has appeared in the PassMark benchmark database, suggesting AMD is continuing to expand its Ryzen PRO 9000 desktop lineup for enterprise and workstation systems.

The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9980X CPU is slated to arrive later this month and will be one of if not the fastest desktop processor on the market, according to the latest tests on PassMark. The 64-core, ...

Shopping for a laptop or desktop? Figuring out which CPU it should have can be the hardest part. Let's take a look at two of Intel's most popular processor lines and unravel the differences. I’m 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 today launched the fastest gaming processor ever with its new Ryzen 7 9850X3D. The company shared performance benchmarks and more details. At CES 2026 today, AMD made a couple of major mobile ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. AMD delivers the ultimate blow to Intel, thanks to its second-gen 3D V-Cache technology. If you buy something ...

The Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 is built around AMD’s Zen 5 architecture and arrives with 16 cores and 32 threads, a 4.3 GHz base clock, and boost speeds of up to 5.6 GHz. Its hero feature is cache capacity: 16 ...