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, ...

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 ...

Intel’s Panther Lake generation is almost ready to hit store shelves, with the first Core Ultra Series 3 laptops expected to arrive on January 27. Ahead of that date, early performance data for the ...

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 ...

Something to look forward to: Intel will launch brand new Arrow Lake-S desktop CPUs later this month. Ahead of its release, the flagship Core Ultra 9 285K has appeared on the PassMark benchmark ...

Intel places seven CPUs in PassMark's top ten price performance rankings AMD leads only through discounted Ryzen 5 clearance entries Value favors Intel across widely available desktop CPUs Intel ...

The first benchmark for AMD's "Dragon Range" Zen 4 mobile CPUs shows it to be a potent competitor, though Intel has yet to tip its hand with Raptor Lake mobile. Share on Facebook (opens in a new ...

Zen 5 is out, and AMD Ryzen 7000 Zen 4 processors are distinctly last-generation now. Only, a lot of reviewers produced benchmark data that makes Zen 5 look less like a step and more like a stumble.

Whenever you’re building a new gaming PC, you’re going to have to decide between Intel and AMD for your processor. However, as the years go on, the right answer is constantly changing. For instance, ...

I'm trying to upgrade a system or two for virtualization tinkering and I'm having a hard time figuring out the naming scheme of all the various processors, their performance relative to one another ...