Here are the 9800X3D benchmarks. We test this new eight-core AMD processor with 3D V-cache in several games to gauge its ...

The stock cooler that ships with your CPU is designed to handle the CPU's TDP, and even then, it's usually not great at it.

The competition is fierce, and that's a great thing for PC enthusiasts. In 2024, the list of the best CPUs is larger than ever and packed with options from Team Red and Team Blue. The bang-for ...

However, the blink-or-you’ll-miss-it Ryzen 8000 was quickly replaced by the Ryzen 9000 processor six months later in June — without an NPU, but ushering in Zen 5 with a potent 16 percent ...

The Oryon CPU is this year’s headline ticket. It marks Qualcomm’s return to custom CPU development after years of buying parts from Arm’s Cortex series. The CPUs are still based on the Arm ...

Speculative execution is a performance optimization feature on modern CPUs that executes instructions before knowing if they are needed by future tasks, thus speeding up the process when the ...

Intel’s new Xeon 6900P "Granite Rapids" CPU family is here, and the first reviews say it provides solid competition for AMD’s EPYC processors. The top-of-the-line model, the 6980P, has 128 ...

The need for an efficient, CPU-friendly solution that addresses these issues has become more pressing than ever. Microsoft recently open-sourced bitnet.cpp, a super-efficient 1-bit LLM inference ...

ASUS has teased it has some "exciting" upgrades to its still unannounced Z890 BTF motherboards, the boards that have backside power connectors and sleek style. During a recent livestream by ASUS ...

For years, both AMD and Intel have energetically competed against one another in the PC processor market. But there’s a new force to be reckoned with — Arm — and both AMD and Intel are ...

As AMD pushes to extend share of the datacenter CPU market, it's pushing CTOs to consider how many of their aging Intel systems can be condensed down to just one of its manycore chips. However, there ...

Find out how we test here. While selecting a CPU for your new build or upgrading your old one, choosing a processor that balances performance and value is vital. You might think that the obvious ...