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

This happened for two key reasons. First, the 3D V-Cache layer directly blocked heat transfer from the compute portion into the processor's integrated heat spreader (IHS) and thus onward to the CPU ...

[Editors' Note, Aug 2, 2024: The emergence in mid-2024 of a microcode bug related to voltage has led us, at the moment, to take a wait-and-see stance on recommending any Intel 13th and 14th Gen ...

Over the past year and especially the last few months, we have gathered a significant amount of new CPU data, much of which we have continued to update with improved BIOS revisions and game updates.

Boosting Windows speed: A new 'Low Latency Profile' in Windows 11 briefly accelerates CPU performance for faster app and menu loading. Early testing gains: Insider builds show up to 40% faster ...

We recently stacked the Ryzen 5 7500F against Intel's Core i5-12400F across a wide set of games to see which CPU makes the most sense on a new budget PC build. The takeaway was easy: the 7500F came ...

One of the best ways to evaluate the performance of your CPU is to run one of the many great benchmarks that are available. They’ll test its raw performance in both single-threaded and multi-threaded ...

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%.

If you’re the type of person who is truly interested in performance, then you may have considered benchmarking your laptop or desktop computer. Having the best performance is always a good idea, and ...

When Apple announced the first three chips in its M3 processor family, the M3 Pro immediately stood out. Not because it was a huge leap over the prior generation, but because it was the first time we ...