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, ...

Intel dominates the top end of PassMark’s price performance rankings in a way that would have seemed unlikely just a few ...

The first AMD Ryzen 7 7700X CPU benchmark has arrived ahead of the launch of team red's latest processor series, and the results indicate we could be in for a substantial generational leap in ...

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 ...