When Intel launched Lunar Lake (Core Ultra 200V) in 2024 we gave you the technical details and followed up with a review of ...

A reader recently contacted us and asked a question worth answering in an article. How does Windows (and perhaps all OS's) take advantage of multiple cores? Alternatively, if this function is built ...

There's Intel and AMD on the x86 side, with Apple and Qualcomm making Arm-based processors on the other. We break down the advantages and drawbacks of each to help you pick the right chip for your ...

Intel’s new desktop CPUs are radically different than the Intel CPUs you’re used to. Today marks the launch of Arrow Lake, the company’s latest architecture for desktop processors, formally sold as ...

I've been buying and using CPUs for PC gaming for over three decades, so now you can learn from the mistakes I've made in the past. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Intel’s cheapest desktop CPUs are now faster than AMD's, and Team Red is feeling pressure across the sub-$200 market.

The AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D is a new Zen 5 8-core/16-thread CPU from AMD using 2nd Generation 3D V-Cache, to provide a large 96MB of L3 cache, geared as a gaming CPU, but with improvements to base clock ...

Why do we complain about hardware bottlenecks when the software isn't written to take full advantage of all the cores and oomph hardware has? Why is it always the fault of the hardware and not the ...

I knew this was coming — I just didn’t expect it to happen quite just yet. It turns out that some of the best processors are on their way toward retirement, because eight-core CPUs are slowly becoming ...

Even three years later, AMD’s high-end X3D-series processors still aren’t a thing that most people need to spend extra money on—under all but a handful of circumstances, your GPU will be the limiting ...

TL;DR: Apple's new M5 processor powers the latest MacBook Pro, Vision Pro headset, and iPad Pro with up to 10 CPU and GPU cores, delivering 15% faster multi-threaded performance, 30% higher memory ...