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, ...

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 ...

The new flagship CPU launched just 22% behind the Core i9-14900K despite having only 12 cores and offers similar ...

A highly detailed Meteor Lake benchmark listing has made an appearance in PassMark's database featuring a new CPU called the Core Ultra 7 155H. The listing features unusually-detailed CPU ...

Average CPU Performance on PCs Stalls After 20 Years of Gains PC performance scores submitted to PassMark show what appears to be the first-ever dip in average CPU performance across two decades of ...

Something to look forward to: Intel will launch brand new Arrow Lake-S desktop CPUs later this month. Ahead of its release, the flagship Core Ultra 9 285K has appeared on the PassMark benchmark ...

Things move fast in the world of PC hardware. One day you're sitting on the top of the throne; the next, you're an also-ran. Such is the case with AMD's fledgling Zen 4 mobile CPU, the "Dragon Range" ...

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, ...

Intel and fans of the company would surely be happy with this report. In the latest PassMark update rankings for single-threaded performance, Team Blue's 12th Gen Alder Lake-S desktop processors have ...