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, ...

This week, Intel had its Innovation event, where the company pulled the wraps off a dizzying array of next-gen technology. Notably absent was any discussion of its Raptor Lake refresh CPUs, which was ...

I was browsing CPU benchmarks at cpubenchmark.net, which is run by PassMark Corporation and is based on their benchmark, CPUMark. Just wondering what others think - are their benchmarks pretty ...

The AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX APU is proving to be an exceptional piece of engineering. Not only does it stand up to the powerful Intel Core i9-13980HX and i9-13950HX mobile processors, but it's also pushing ...

In addition to the powerful Intel Core Ultra 200HX series processors, commonly used in high-performance laptops and gaming systems, Intel also introduced mid-range Core Ultra 5 processors at the last ...

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 ...

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 ...

AMD’s unreleased Ryzen 7 7845HX laptop processor has appeared in PassMark’s laptop CPU performance charts. The Dragon Range processor, which mixes Zen 4 CPU cores and RDNA 2 graphics, hasn’t quietly ...

AMD's Ryzen 9 3950X has already earned its stripes prior to its release on November 25, 2019. The 16-core Zen 2 CPU has been spotted within the Passmark benchmark toppling Intel's Xeon W-3175X - a ...