CPUs Reviews

Intel's Coffee Lake Pentium Gold processors land with friendly price points for budget builds. But AMD has a potent challenger in its Ryzen 3 2200G.

Intel pays homage to the 40th anniversary of the 8086, the first x86 processor, with the limited-edition Core i7-8086K.

Intel's Core i7-8700 sports all of the goodness expected from its Coffee Lake architecture. However, the bundled cooler proves insufficient under taxing workloads.

6 cores for a budget price

AMD's Ryzen 5 2600X comes with all of the goodness of AMD's new Zen+ architecture, let's see how it stacks up against Intel's finest.

AMD claims the Ryzen 7 2700X brings up to a 20% productivity boost, and is near-equivalent in gaming to Intel's Coffee Lake chips. Does it live up to the hype?

We were fans of Ryzen 5 2400G at $170. So what do we think of Ryzen 3 2200G? After all, it still sports four cores and 512 Stream processors for competent 720p gaming!

AMD designed its new Ryzen processors with Vega graphics to play AAA games at 1080p with low-quality settings. Does the flagship Ryzen 5 2400G deliver on those promises?

Intel's Core i3-8100 comes with four cores at a low price point. But can it fend off AMD's multiplier-unlocked Ryzen competition?