CPU benchmarks do matter, but it's easy to be misled by them. Every time a new CPU arrives on the market, there's a flood of benchmark charts showing how the latest chips stack up to the old guard.

The first seemingly legitimate benchmarks of Apple’s new A18 Pro chip have apparently leaked out, and they show a healthy boost in performance that should keep Apple on top of the smartphone ...

Intel’s 12th-gen Core i5-12600K offers stunning performance over its AMD Ryzen rival—and offers Consumers unheard-of value too. If there was ever a CPU designed solely for revenge, Intel’s 12th-gen ...

Except that no matter what they try to show, Intel sells more chips and most of the time their next chip outperforms the last AMD chip. I'll say it again and again, AMD needs to get their next chip ...

It's not surprising to find that the Ryzen 7 9800X3D is the most popular processor on Amazon.com right now. The chip we called the New Gaming ...

AMD has launched its new Ryzen AI 400 series APUs at CES 2026 keynote today. It has shared specs, performance and more.

Intel's extant 12th-generation "Core" family processors, codenamed Alder Lake, are extremely fast CPUs by any standard. The single-threaded grunt of the "Golden Cove" P-cores combined with the ...

Intel introduced two new mobile Tiger Lake-U processors at Computex 2021: the flagship Core i7 1195G7 and the Core i5 1155G7. They're both destined to find their way inside the best gaming laptops, ...

AMD introduces the Ryzen AI Max 300 series and Ryzen 7 9850X3D at CES, bringing powerful integrated AI performance to compact ...

The Ryzen 7 5800U is AMD's answer to Intel's Tiger Lake and is their fastest available chip for ultraportable and ultrathin laptops. This is the first Ryzen Mobile 5000 U-series processor to land in ...

I believe only LGA-1156 was supposed to be the traditional desktop - dual channel, like for ages. HEDT started with 3 channel boards at same 4C (= same core count as desktop), then grew over time.