In a surprise first for the ages, PassMark has revealed that the average CPU performance on desktops and laptops in 2025 has declined year-on-year. Despite new Intel Arrow Lake and AMD Fire Range ...

Average CPU Performance on PCs Stalls After 20 Years of Gains PC performance scores submitted to PassMark show what appears to be the first-ever dip in average CPU performance across two decades of ...

The takeaway: Qualcomm claims that its new Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme is the best laptop processor on the market, and early third-party benchmarks mostly supports this assertion. However, Apple ...

The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC), the trusted global leader in computing benchmarks, today announced the availability of the SPEC CPU 2026 benchmark suites, a significant update ...

The first wave of reviews of Apple's new M4-powered MacBook Pro models were published this morning. We've collected some of the latest impressions from YouTube channels and select media outlets below.

Intel's first desktop CPU to use both a chiplet design and TSMC's 3nm process has finally arrived, and its first review paints a picture of a company in transition. Performance is a bit all over the ...

The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 is an unusual halo desktop CPU, not because it adds more cores, but because it doubles down on what has made AMD’s X3D chips so interesting in the first place: stacked cache.