Thanks to its hugely powerful new integrated Xe3 GPU, the Intel Panther Lake laptop CPU series has stolen a surprise victory ...

Snapdragon X2 Plus benchmarks hint that Qualcomm’s next Windows laptop chip still trails Apple’s M4 in most CPU and GPU tests ...

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, ...

Intel dominates the top end of PassMark’s price performance rankings in a way that would have seemed unlikely just a few ...

As promised, Intel has launched the Core Ultra Series 3 processors at CES 2026. These are the long-awaited "Panther Lake" chips, and if Intel's claims hold up under our own testing, they look ...

PC components explained: learn what each part does, their functions, and how CPU, GPU, storage, and cooling impact ...

AMD’s Ryzen CPU announcements this year fall firmly into the latter camp—these are all gently tweaked variants of chips that ...

Two new Intel Arrow Lake benchmarks have just appeared in the Geekbench results browser, giving us an indication of the performance of the new Intel gaming CPUs, as well as seemingly revealing their ...

TL;DR: AMD's Ryzen 5 5500X3D, a new Zen 3 processor, shows strong synthetic performance with Geekbench scores of 1936 (single-core) and 9292 (multi-core), outperforming the Ryzen 5 5500 by up to 13%.

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 ...