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, ...

Intel dominates the top end of PassMark’s price performance rankings in a way that would have seemed unlikely just a few ...

AMD's Threadripper Pro 5000 series hit the diy market last year, and today Luke takes a look at the 5995WX, 5975WX, and 5965WX. These are beastly CPUs and Luke puts them through our regular benchmark ...

Thanks to its hugely powerful new integrated Xe3 GPU, the Intel Panther Lake laptop CPU series has stolen a surprise victory ...

Snapdragon X2 Plus benchmarks hint that Qualcomm’s next Windows laptop chip still trails Apple’s M4 in most CPU and GPU tests ...

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 ...

With the AMD Ryzen 8000G series release date now imminent, alleged benchmarks demonstrating the performance of the APUs are continuing to leak. In good news for would-be buyers of the chips, though, ...

The benchmarks are drawn from Geekbench 6.5 and UL's Procyon suite, run on Windows 11 laptops. Qualcomm claims the 10-core X2 Plus can deliver up to ...

Intel has released its new Core Ultra Series 3 'Panther Lake' CPUs at CES 2026: first on Intel 18A process node, and made in ...

Samsung is expected to ship its Galaxy S24 series flagships with two different chipsets. The Ultra model will use the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 “For Galaxy” globally, while the other two models will feature ...

PC components explained: learn what each part does, their functions, and how CPU, GPU, storage, and cooling impact performance and longevity.

Rahim is a Senior Tech/Commerce Writer at Valnet and builds PCs & networking solutions on demand. Whether It's your GPU, CPU, Display, or just an SSD upgrade, expect him to have a well-researched ...