Whether you're upgrading your desktop PC or building a new one, choosing the right processor is the most crucial and complex ...

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 ...

In this piece, I explain with data why when testing a CPU's gaming prowess, we pair powerful flagship tier graphics cards, like an RTX 4090, and run them at lower resolutions like 1080p or 720p. For ...

AI agents, like humans, demand high single-threaded performance ...

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 ...

Apple this week announced a new generation of Mac Studio, and surprisingly it is available with two different chip families: M3 Ultra and M4 Max. While the company claims that the M3 Ultra is up to ...

Vera CPU after tests show 1.5x performance gains over Intel and AMD. Nvidia targets $20B in CPU sales. Stock rated Strong Buy ...

Crimson Desert is the type of game that shouldn’t ever see the light of day. Built originally as a prequel for popular MMO Black Desert Online before being scrapped and redirected to a single-player ...

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 ...

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 ...

Here’s how all the mobile chipsets from the last two and a half years stack up. The gap between smartphone chips in 2026 is ...