We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The CPU is the beating heart of a desktop computer. Whether it's a blazing-fast gaming rig or a workstation designed for crunching through ...

Fancy, expensive processors are fun, but for most people who just want to build a decent middle-of-the-road PC for gaming (and anything else), the best advice is usually to buy a Core i5 or Ryzen 5 ...

The Core i9-12900HK is Intel's most recent and fastest CPU for laptops. In this review we'll be pitting it up against a range of other mobile products, including the beast that is the Apple M1 Pro, so ...

Based on our initial tests of a Ryzen 9 5000-series ('Cezanne') gaming laptop, it's clear that AMD continues to challenge Intel's most powerful laptop processors. (Also: Get a peek at the first Intel ...

Today, we're comparing the three X3D chips available on the AM4 platform: the Ryzen 5 5600X3D, Ryzen 7 5700X3D, and Ryzen 7 5800X3D. Technically, most of you will only have access to the Ryzen 7 ...

AMD has been unafraid to push back against the long-standing dominance of Intel in the CPU arena by talking up both the value-per-dollar and high-end performance delivered by their latest Ryzen ...

It’s universally accepted that comparing CPUs across laptops is nigh impossible. Differences in cooling and overall design between laptops make it almost impossible to separate pure CPU performance ...

The newly announced M1 Ultra is now Apple's fastest Apple silicon chip, unseating the M1 Max as the top-of-the-line option. With the power of the updated chip, the new Mac Studio is able to outperform ...

When you're comparing two of the best CPUs, the first spec that comes to mind is clock speed. It quite literally represents how fast the CPU can churn through clock cycles, and naturally, you'd assume ...