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's Bartlett Lake-S CPUs are only available for embedded and edge use, but that hasn't stopped enthusiasts from ...

The SPEC CPU 2026 features more tests and an emphasis on portability, running on everything from fleets of servers down to a ...

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, ...

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

It looks as though Zen 5 CPUs are already appearing in the wild, and a new AMD Ryzen 5 9600X engineering sample has reportedly just been put through its paces in a couple of benchmarks, including ...

Updated suites reflect a multi-year collaboration between competing organizations to provide unbiased performance benchmarks ...

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 ...

A German hardware enthusiast and streamer managed to get his mitts on an Intel Bartlett Lake-S Core 9 273PQE processor and put it through its paces in some informal gaming tests. The results? A modest ...

An engineering sample of the Ryzen 9 9950X processor has surfaced in AIDA64 benchmarks. Shared by Anandtech Forum user igor_kavinsky, the results reveal noticeable performance gains. The Ryzen 9 9950X ...

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 ...

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 ...