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, ...

The first seemingly legitimate benchmarks of Apple’s new A18 Pro chip have apparently leaked out, and they show a healthy boost in performance that should keep Apple on top of the smartphone ...

SINGAPORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--KAYTUS, a leading provider of end-to-end AI and liquid cooling solutions, has announced that its dual-socket V3 series server, KR1280V3, has secured top rankings in the ...

AMD’s Mendocino processors for low-cost laptops generated a bit of buzz when they were announced earlier this year. In order to keep costs low while offering decent performance, AMD equips these chips ...

In case you missed it, at CES 2026 AMD actually did have a few consumer announcements despite that the keynote was almost ...

Most of AMD's upcoming Ryzen 8000 series processors will be based on the company's next-generation Zen 5 processor architecture, and that's a big deal because by all accounts, Zen 5 is going to be a ...

Something to look forward to: Following the recent launch of the Ryzen 7 9800X3D, AMD is reportedly set to unveil a pair of faster processors with 3D V-cache. The Ryzen 9 9900X3D and the Ryzen 9 ...

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 ...

A hot potato: China is willing to fight US restrictions on advanced technology with domestically-produced chip products, and the highly-discussed Loongson CPU line is receiving further confirmation ...

What with the ongoing 13th and 14th Gen CPU debacle, wouldn't it be nice if Intel had a hot new generation of desktop processors to fix everything. In theory, that would be Arrow Lake, due out later ...

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%.

The Dimensity 9500s is a powerful high-end smartphone chipset, promising strong performance and solid power efficiency. That, paired with an upgraded NPU supporting agentic AI and a fully modern ...