A week ago, we were discussing the misconception that CPU performance doesn't matter for 4K gaming. We showed that although sometimes it doesn't matter – as you will indeed end up GPU limited – that's ...

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.

A new AMD Ryzen CPU benchmark leak has just appeared, and it shows the potentially awesome power of the company's new Threadripper CPUs for multi-threading work. This new leak appears to show the raw ...

Zen 5 is here, and the entry-level AMD Ryzen 5 9600X CPU is a winner. The architectural overhaul and improved efficiency deliver impressive single-core performance, so much so that gaming with the ...

Microsoft’s latest KB5041587 update includes AMD-specific performance improvements. Microsoft’s latest KB5041587 update includes AMD-specific performance ...

The Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 is a flagship-grade mobile processor with a high-end CPU configuration and a powerful Adreno GPU with ...

PC bottleneck detection helps pinpoint which component limits performance when games stutter, apps lag, or multitasking feels sluggish. Many slow PC diagnosis issues surface through simple observation ...

A new computer means faster performance, right? Maybe not. The latest benchmark scores reveal that average CPU performance among users is starting to stagnate. The data comes from PassMark Software, ...

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The latest Starfield update is yet to go live for all players but those willing and brave enough to try it early can do now do so and may find their frame rates are higher than usual. This is thanks ...

We test dozens of laptops every year here at ZDNET: from the latest MacBooks to the best Windows PCs, aiming for a dual approach. On one hand, we run a series of benchmarking programs to gather ...

Apple’s M5 Pro and M5 Max make deceptively large changes to how Apple’s high-end laptop and desktop chips are built. We’ve already covered those changes in some depth, but in essence: The M5 Pro and ...