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Benchmarks of AMD's upcoming Hawk Point Flagship APU, the Ryzen 9 8945HS & Ryzen 5 8645HS, have leaked out & showcase strong performance against the competition.

Intel's Core Ultra 5 125H "Meteor Lake" CPU benchmarks have been leaked by Lenovo ahead of launch & lost to the AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS.

As we head closer to launch, more Intel Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" CPU leaks have started to occur and the latest one is for the flagship Core Ultra 9 185H chip.

Benchmarks of Intel's upcoming 14th Gen Core i5-14600 CPU featuring 14 cores have been leaked out ahead of next year's launch by Enthusiast Citizen.

The latest benchmarks of Intel's upcoming Core Ultra 7 155H & Core Ultra 5 125H "Meteor Lake" CPUs have been leaked and they don't seem to look that good against AMD's existing Ryzen 7040 laptop APU lineup.

Intel's next-gen Sierra Forest Xeon CPU featuring a mighty 144 E-cores has been leaked within the Geekbench database.

AMD has officially introduced its latest Ryzen 8000 APUs codenamed Hawk Point, which refreshes the existing Ryzen 7000 "Phoenix" APUs.

You know those dystopian notions of seas boiling over thanks to climate change? Well, China has a neat idea to accelerate a process which is already giving us the warmest sea surface temps on record. Heating up the oceans directly with computers.

ASUS's high-end ROG Zephyrus laptops with Intel's top Meteor Lake "Core Ultra" CPUs & NVIDIA's RTX 40 discrete GPUs have been spotted.

Intel's next-generation Arrow Lake-H CPUs for laptops are already being sampled as one 16-core configuration has been spotted in a shipping manifesto.

Loongson 3A6000 CPU which is made for China's domestic PC market has reached performance parity with Intel's 14th Gen CPUs in clock-to-clock tests.

Now here's something interesting, if only for interest's sake. Twitter/X user Nemez managed to create a RAM disk held within the Level 3 cache of an AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D processor and the results make the fastest NVMe drives look like sloths in comparison.

Intel Core i5 13600K | 14 cores, 24 threads | 6 P-cores + 8 E-cores | 5.1GHz | LGA 1700 | $329$270 at Amazon (save $59)The Intel Core i5 13600K currently tops our recommendations for the best CPUs for gaming, and it's not hard to see why. Beyond its great gaming performance this is a multi-tasking marvel, and rivals the more expensive Core i9 12900K in both single-threaded and multi-threaded benchmarks. It's an all-round powerhouse, and although the 14th gen versions are now available, the performance is more or less identical. And since this one's cheaper, it makes sense to buy it, doesn't it?

Amongst all the hoo-hah over the latest hardware releases, it's easy to lose sight of the fact that some of the slightly older components of yesteryear don't suddenly age out into obscurity the second a new model is released. Canny buyers will often look out for deals a generation or two back, grabbing super-speedy components at a great price that others may have overlooked simply because they're not the latest and greatest thing.

The PlayStation Portal OS source code was shared online this week, and it has revealed additional information on the CPU that powers the handheld system.

Intel's 14th Gen Non-K CPUs seem to be entering the retail segment as the Core i3-14100 has been listed on China's 3rd party retail outlet, Goofish.

Qualcomm has finally lifted the curtains off the Snapdragon 7 Gen 3, and it brings a number of improvements over its predecessors. For starters, the processor is fabricated on TSMC's 4nm process and has a 1+3+4 CPU configuration. The Kryo CPU offers a prime core clocked at 2.63GHz, you also have 3x performance cores running at 2.4GHz, and there are four efficiency cores running at a modest 1.8GGHz.

AMD has posted even more record-breaking performance numbers of its Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX 96-Core CPU which has been overclocked to an impressive 5.2 GHz on liquid cooling.

AMD has just released record-breaking performance numbers for its upcoming 96-Core flagship CPU, the Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX.

Samsung's next-gen Galaxy Book 4 lineup which includes a range of Intel Meteor Lake & Raptor Lake CPU options with NVIDIA discrete graphics has been leaked by WindowsReport.

If Intel's feeble 6GHz Intel Core i9-14900K Raptor Lake refresh CPU ain't doin' it for you, don't panic. A new and as yet unannounced variant, running at an all important 200MHz faster, has been spotted. Give it up for the Core i9 14900KS, that critical «S» indicating that this is a 6.2GHz chip.

Intel has been pulled into a lawsuit by consumers, claiming that the chipmaker was aware of the Downfall vulnerabilities & still sold chips in the market.

The latest benchmarks of Intel's Core i9-14900HX Raptor Lake Refresh CPU have leaked out and it's easily one of the fastest chips for laptops.

AMD owns about 20% of the desktop CPU market and nearly a quarter of servers according to new figures for the third quarter of 2023 from Mercury Research. That's up by about 5% in both cases compared to AMD's share this time last year.

A brand new Intel Core Ultra 5 135U "Meteor Lake" CPU has appeared within the Geekbench database with an unusual core count.

The latest benchmarks of Apple's M3 CPUs are in and the M3 Pro specifically has secured the top position in PassMark's single-thread benchmark.

AMD's next-gen Ryzen 9000 Desktop CPUs have allegedly been listed with Alienware's R15 gaming PC as one user in China has discovered.

Microcenter keeps on delivering some insane deals on AMD's Ryzen CPUs and the latest ones which include the 7900X, 7800X3D & 5600X3D are a delight for gamers and enthusiast looking forward to building their gaming PC or simply updating them with something new & powerful.

Black Friday 2023 is right around the corner and deals on AMD, & Intel CPUs are already live, offering some amazing discounts to PC gamers.

A new case & cooler manufacturer, APNX, has just entered the PC space with its latest product portfolio which includes the C1 Mid-Tower case, AP1-V CPU Cooler, and a range of fans offering minimalistic aesthetics that look great.

During an event in China, Intel teased the launch of more 14th Gen Raptor Lake refreshes including 65W Desktops, HX-series for laptops & China-exclusive variants.

Intel's upcoming Xeon Platinum 8558U "Emerald Rapids" CPU with its 48 cores and large pool of cache has been spotted.

Intel's top 5th Gen Emerald Rapids chip, the Xeon Platinum 8592+, with 64 cores and 448 MB cache has been leaked by YuuKi_AnS.

More Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite 12-Core CPU benchmarks have been revealed which deliver strong performance at just 28W TDP.

It is the first time that Apple has announced not one, not two, but a total of three chipsets at its October 30 ‘Scary Fast’ event, with the M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max the latest stars of the show. All three have been mass produced on the cutting-edge 3nm architecture, making them the first family of chips to be fabricated on the next-generation manufacturing process. With this improved technology, Apple is not only able to outfit each M3 member with higher CPU and GPU cores but also give them advanced technologies, which we will be talking about in-depth here, so let us get started.

Qualcomm has provided even more benchmarks of its upcoming Snapdragon X Elite PC CPU featuring the Oryon core architecture.

The latest benchmark of Intel's Core Ultra 9 185H "Meteor Lake" CPU has leaked and it shows strong multi-core performance.

The first review of China's domestically produced Loongson 3A6000 CPU has been published, revealing better IPC than Intel's 10th Gen & AMD Zen 2 architectures.

AMD seems to believe that given the advancements in chip densities, the overall CPU temperatures will continue to increase with future Ryzen generations.

The Tensor G3 ended up being a bitter disappointment from Google, despite being found in pricey flagships, as the SoC continues to be outperformed by the three-year-old chipset A14 Bionic. Fortunately, the company’s grand plans include developing its own chipset to rival what Apple mass produces every year for its iPhones, with one tipster stating that the Tensor G5 arriving in a couple of years will have a custom CPU and a self-made GPU too.

There's good news for Intel, as it has beaten expectations with its latest financial forecasts. Perhaps that's why CEO Pat Gelisinger is so bullish about the threat from a new generation of Arm chips.

AMD's Ryzen Threadripper PRO CPUs are fast and the 64-Core 7985WX chip shows significant gains over its Zen 3 & Zen 2-based predecessors in the latest benchmarks.

Qualcomm has finally unveiled the full details & benchmarks of its upcoming Snapdragon X Elite CPU for upcoming Windows PCs which will tackle Apple, Intel, and AMD.

Intel will launch its next-gen Granite Rapids Xeon CPUs for servers in 2024 which will require some beefy cooling solutions, delivering up to 700W of power.

The Xiaomi 14 will be one of the first flagships to be announced with Qualcomm’s latest and greatest Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, so it would be assumed that the SoC would perform the same as seen in previous Geekbench 6 leaks. Not quite, as these results certainly caught us off-guard, with the A17 Pro unable to match the multi-core performance of the chipset, though single-core results are a whole different story.

Intel's Core i9-14900K has finally been delidded by hardware enthusiast Der8auer, which shows a decent improvement in thermals.

The Snapdragon Summit is only a couple of days away, but that has not stopped a detailed specifications and features leak of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, revealing the improvements compared to Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, along with a plethora of advantages for Android smartphones and tablets in multiple categories. The chipset maker has also invested heavily in GPU upscaling this time, making it possible to play games at the 8K resolution while also supporting visual additions such as global illumination and ray tracing.

The Snapdragon X Elite is said to be the official name of Qualcomm’s high-end chipset tailor-made for PCs and the company’s first to feature its custom Oryon cores that were developed to rival Apple’s M-series. A detailed list of its specifications has been shared, including a CPU and GPU that is supposedly twice as fast as x86 processors. While the marketing might be ambiguous, let us dive into the details and find out more.

AMD's Ryzen Threadripper 7995WX CPU is a beast of a chip, breaking multi-threaded performance records but it also has surprisingly high FP32 compute capabilities which are on par with some of the most popular GPUs on the market and faster than the latest gaming consoles.

AMD's Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX is officially the fastest workstation CPU to date as revealed in the latest performance benchmarks.

More benchmarks of Intel's 14th Gen Non-K CPU such as the Core i5-14600 and the Core i3-14100 have been leaked on Geekbench.

The first Intel Meteor Lake CPU-powered handheld gaming console has been revealed by Emdoor & features an Arc-integrated GPU.

Chinese chipmaker, Phytium, has unveiled its next generation of high-performing CPUs, competing with the likes of AMD and ARM.

Jacob was distinctly non-plussed by the tiny uptick that is Intel's «new» 14th Gen Raptor Lake refresh CPU, at least by the top Core i9 14900K chip. Might he be a bit more impressed if it ran at 9GHz?

Intel's 14th Gen flagship, the Core i9-14900K, has just achieved the world frequency record by clocking up to 9.1 GHz.

Benchmarks of Intel's Core i5-14400, a mainstream 14th Gen Non-K CPU, have leaked out ahead of its launch which is scheduled for early 2024.

Intel has finally revealed the official specifications of its Xeon E-2400 Xeon entry-level workstation CPUs which are part of the Raptor Lake family.

The yet-to-be-announced PlayStation 5 Pro is said to bring accelerated ray tracing and other performance improvements, but it seems like the CPU that will power the new system won't be based on newer AMD architectures, according to rumors circulating online.

Intel's latest Meteor Lake CPU, the Core Ultra 5 135H, has leaked out along with its benchmarks and shows what to expect from mainstream laptops.

We have seen some insane deals on the AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D CPU but Microcenter has gone one step ahead by listing it at the lowest price yet.

Loongson has shared two major developments this week which include the launch of its 3A6000 CPUs in the Chinese domestic market and a Russian deal for its 3A5000 CPUs.

The next-gen AMD & Intel laptop CPU families have been detailed which cover Strix Point, Hawk Point, Arrow Lake & Lunar Lake.

We are just a week away from the launch of the Zen 4-powered AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7000WX CPUs so today we are going to talk specs.

AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D | 8 cores, 16 threads | 5.0GHz max boost | 96MB L3 cache | 120W TDP | $449.99$359.38 at Amazon (save $90)This CPU isn't just the best gaming processor you can get for your money, it's simply the best there is. It's just as fast as anything Intel has to offer and consumes far less power to boot. Of course, this isn't the best CPU at everything, as it's designed to be brilliant at gaming (check out our review here). For content creation and productivity tasks, you'll want a CPU with more cores and threads. Normally, the biggest downside to choosing the Ryzen 7 7800X3D was its price, but this deal counters that problem immediately.

The Samsung S23 FE featuring the Exynos 2200 would be concluded by many as a terrible decision from Samsung, but a series of tests show that the price-to-performance handset can hold its CPU performance incredibly well. It appears that certain optimizations in the Exynos 2200’s manufacturing process and a cooling solution upgrade may be the reason for this dramatic change in results.

Well, it actually happened, the AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D is now available for $100 US below its MSRP of $349 US, making it a fantastic gaming option.

Alleged power limits of Intel's Arrow Lake-S Desktop CPU featuring 8 P-Cores and 16 E-Cores have been revealed by Darkmont.

Transcripts of analyst-facing conferences, held by multi-billion dollar organisations, are usually terminally dull affairs. But a recent Intel chat contains a wee snippet we can add to the rumour fire about when the next version of Windows is due. And in this particular case, Intel is hinting that it's definitely next year.

Samsung may have skipped a chipset launch this year, but for 2024, the company has officially unveiled its newest high-end SoC, the Exynos 2400, bringing in multiple improvements over the Exynos 2200. The new chip was unveiled during the company’s System LSI Tech Day, and while all the details are not available, let us discuss what Samsung talked about during the announcement.

Few processors highlight just how much of a difference a CPU can make to your PC’s performance like the AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D. This deceptively midrange chip can more than hold its own with more expensive chips, and even outperform them. Now, it’s available for less than for $400 right now on Amazon.

A super-early Intel Lunar Lake CPU has been spotted within the SiSoftware database which packs 8 cores and up to 3.9 GHz boost clocks.

A super-early Intel Lunar Lake CPU has been spotted within the SiSoftware database which packs 20 cores and up to 3.9 GHz boost clocks.

AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D | 8 cores | 16 threads | 5.0GHz | AM5 Socket | 96MB L3 cache | 120W TDP | $449.00 $399.00 at Newegg (save $50)The 7800X3D is pretty much one of the very best, if not the best CPU you can get for a pure gaming PC. Its performance is only matched by Intel's Core i9-13900K but that's a lot more expensive and uses more power. It's not as well rounded as the 13900K, so gamers also wanting strong productivity chops might want to consider something else. But if you're building a new PC for nothing but gaming, this is the one to get.

Intel's 14th Gen Core i5-14600K CPU has been benchmarked at both stock and overclocked frequencies within Geekbench 6.

Intel's Core i9-14900K "Raptor Lake Refresh" has been benchmarked in two rendering applications, achieving an impressive creation performance.

Serial and somewhat hit-and-miss YouTube 'leak' channel, Moore's Law is Dead, has unloaded some technical details and performance expectations for AMD's upcoming Zen 5 and 6 CPU architectures. The headline takeaway is arguably that it involves more modest performance gains than previous rumours.

In a surprisingly unsurprising development, Intel has clarified its position on the upcoming Metoer Lake architecture. It's not coming to the desktop. The problem is that only last week Intel's Michelle Johnston Holthaus,  executive vice president and general manager of the client computing group, said it was. Or at least, it seemed like she did.

Intel Core Ultra 7 165H Meteor Lake CPU has now shown up in the Geekbench 6 benchmark with up to 5 GHz frequencies.

We're still waiting for Intel's next-gen Meteor Lake CPUs to make retail availability. All the expectations are that those chips will be limited to laptops and the desktop will only receive a minor refresh of the existing Raptor Lake chips. But now comes news that Intel has been showing off yet another new generation of CPUs, known as Lunar Lake.