That 125W CPU rating is not telling you what you think it is ...

On Tuesday, the company published a graph tracking the average CPU performance scores submitted over a 20-year period from Windows machines. As expected, the graph shows that aggregate CPU performance ...

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 ...

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 ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Intel (Nasdaq: INTC): What’s New: Intel today announced the release of Continuous Profiler to open source – serving as an example of the company’s open ecosystem ...

PC bottleneck detection helps pinpoint which component limits performance when games stutter, apps lag, or multitasking feels sluggish. Many slow PC diagnosis issues surface through simple observation ...

AMD today launched the fastest gaming processor ever with its new Ryzen 7 9850X3D. The company shared performance benchmarks and more details. At CES 2026 today, AMD made a couple of major mobile ...

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 ...

Given its recent manufacturing troubles, a resurgent AMD, an incursion from Qualcomm, and Apple’s shift from customer to competitor, it’s been a rough few years for Intel’s processors. Computer buyers ...

Modern processors are designed to increase their clock speeds automatically when additional performance is needed. In Windows 11, a setting called Processor Performance Boost Mode lets you control how ...