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Best Thermal Pastes
Best Thermal Paste for CPUs 2026: 90 TIM Compounds Tested and Ranked

By Paul Alcorn Last updated

We tested 37 different thermal compounds with AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X and over 90 thermal compounds with Intel Core i9 CPUs to help you find the best one to help cool your CPU.

Thermal Paste
Best Power Supplies
Best Power Supplies 2026

By E. Fylladitakis Last updated

Here are the best power supplies for gaming PCs. These PSUs offer the best reliability, performance and protection for your PC components.

Power Supplies
Ryzen 9000
Asus beta BIOS updates restore Ryzen 9000 memory encryption ahead of AMD’s July timeline

By Etiido Uko Published

Asus has released beta BIOS updates for several X870, B850, and X670 AM5 motherboards, restoring Transparent Secure Memory Encryption support for non-Pro Ryzen 9000 CPUs.

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GPU Benchmarks and Performance Hierarchy
The GPU benchmarks hierarchy 2026

By Jeffrey Kampman Last updated

We've run hundreds of GPU benchmarks on Nvidia, AMD, and Intel graphics cards and ranked them in our comprehensive hierarchy.

GPUs
RAM Benchmark Hierarchy
RAM Benchmark Hierarchy 2026: DDR5, DDR4 for AMD, Intel CPUs

By Zhiye Liu Last updated

Our RAM benchmark hierarchy ranks DDR5 and DDR4 memory kits of all frequencies and capacities for any budget.

RAM
Micron
AMD reaches 46% of server x86 CPU revenue — Intel still controls 70% of the consumer PC market share

By Anton Shilov Published

AMD now commands 38.1% of total x86 CPU revenue share, skyrockets past 46.2% x86 server CPU market share, according to Mercury Research.

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AMD posts record first-quarter results, driven by skyrocketing data center CPU demand

By Anton Shilov Published

AMD sets record data center revenue as demand for CPUs from the AI sector skyrockets and is poised to increase even further as agentic AI gains momentum.

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Ryzen AI
AMD Ryzen AI 5 435G APU goes head-to-head with the Ryzen 5 8600G in early benchmarks

By Zhiye Liu Published

The Ryzen AI 5 435G shows similar performance to the existing Ryzen 5 8600G in new Geekbench 6 benchmarks.

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China laptop vendor eats humble pie, apology says ‘production error’ was behind chip mix-up

By Mark Tyson Published

Budget portable PCs specialist Chuwi has released an official apology to customers who received devices that didn’t match up to expected specifications.

Ultrabooks and Ultraportables
Apple
Apple's 18-core M5 Max beats 96-core Ryzen Threadripper Pro 9995WX in Geekbench due to weak benchmark scaling [Updated]

By Anton Shilov Published

What about real-world workloads?

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