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CPU Benchmarks and Hierarchy 2025: CPU Rankings
By Paul Alcorn last updated
All of today's desktop CPU benchmarks compared, including Intel's 13th-Gen Core series and AMD's Ryzen Zen 4 and Threadripper.

The Best CPU for Gaming in 2025
By Paul Alcorn last updated
Here is the best CPU for gaming for the money, based on our benchmarks. These processors offer the best performance in their price ranges and most are suitable for overclocking.

New AMD Ryzen Threadripper smashes PassMark record
By Anton Shilov published
Single thread is a different story...

AMD Krackan Point 2 APU emerges on Geekbench
By Jowi Morales published
An AMD Krackan Point 2 APU Geekbench test result has appeared, featuring a single Zen 5 core and three Zen 5c cores.

New homegrown China server chips unveiled with impressive specs
By Aaron Klotz published
Loongson has finally released its 64-core 3C6000 data center CPU, featuring CPU performance equivalent to 2023 Intel and AMD data center processors such as the Xeon 8380.

AMD’s next-generation mobile processors 'Gorgon Point' spotted
By Hassam Nasir published
The 2026 successor to Strix Point brings modest performance upgrades.

Intel lays off hundreds of engineers in California, including chip design engineers and architects — automotive chip division also gets the axe
By Anton Shilov published
The axe swings.

Intel's laptop version of its Nova Lake processors will use Panther Lake-HX BGA2540 packaging
By Anton Shilov published
Intel's upcoming Nova Lake-HX processors will share the same BGA2540 packaging as Panther Lake-HX, simplifying platform transitions for notebook makers.
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