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, ...

PassMark recently released a CPU performance report that shows some interesting trends. They’ve been tracking performance on Windows PCs since 2008 by looking at benchmark scores from the ...

' PassMark PerformanceTest ' is a benchmark software that performs multiple benchmarks on five items: 'CPU,' '2D graphics,' '3F graphics,' 'memory,' and 'disk speed,' and provides detailed numerical ...

Intel and fans of the company would surely be happy with this report. In the latest PassMark update rankings for single-threaded performance, Team Blue's 12th Gen Alder Lake-S desktop processors have ...

If there is one particular market that AMD has always struggled to get a solid foothold in, it is undoubtedly laptop CPUs. Put simply, for years Intel has absolutely dominated this sector with AMD ...

Ever since at least the Ryzen 3000 series, AMD's release schedule for its Ryzen desktop processors has been to launch the enthusiast-focused "X" processors first, followed by the very-slightly ...

A new PassMark database entry has put Intel’s P-core-only “Bartlett Lake” chatter back on the radar, after months with little public movement. The CPU in question appears under the name “Core 7 253PE, ...

This CPU ranking list helps you to choose the right AMD Ryzen or Intel Core processor. The basis for this are current tests, comparisons and benchmarks from us. We recommend the best CPUs for gaming, ...