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 ...

AMD lost out to Intel’s Core i9-13900K recently, but it’s back with its 3D V-Cache technology to challenge Intel again. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things ...

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 ...

In today's article we're going to look at multitasking performance when gaming. This is a complex subject and one that is often misunderstood by gamers, especially when discussing CPU performance. For ...

We took the major laptop processors (so far) in 2025 and asked them to stream "One Piece" from Netflix until they ran out of ...

The overall core counts and clock speeds have changed little between the Ryzen 9000 and the Ryzen 7000 lines. The Ryzen 7 9700X and its predecessor, the Ryzen 7 7700X, have eight simultaneous ...

AMD loves to build to a crescendo. As it’s shown since 2016, when its first Ryzen CPUs launched, the company progresses incrementally but steadily—until Team Red sits all the way at the top. That time ...

It's not an actual game, but 3DMark05's built-in CPU test is a "gaming related" DirectX metric that's useful for comparing relative performance among similarly equipped systems. This test consists of ...

Rapid infiltration of battery-powered embedded systems into the consumer and industrial markets has made energy consumption as much a core attribute as clock speed or system performance. To determine ...