CPUs

Out of the box, the Ryzen 5 3600X is the best processor in its price range for gaming and productivity, marking a massive shift in the mid-range competitive landscape.

We grabbed a Ryzen 7 3800X off a retail shelf to give it a spin in our test lab.

AMD's Ryzen 3000 series promises more performance and value via the benefits of the 7nm process and Zen 2 microarchitecture.

Intel's Core i5-9400 and -9400F CPUs, armed with with six cores and six threads, come to defend the company's gaming dominance in the mid-range market.

Intel's Cascade Lake wades into market against AMD's EPYC lineup.

Intel's eight-core sixteen-thread Core i9-9900KF comes with disabled graphics but has a higher price tag than the full-featured Core i9-9900K.

AMD rounds out its Athlon stack with the $65 220GE and $75 240GE.

Intel's Xeon W-3175X is a shot across AMD's bow, boasting tons of cores, lots of cache, and high clock rates. It's too bad that a sky-high price tag puts it out of reach for most enthusiasts.

AMD is breathing life back into an almost 20-year-old brand with the Athlon 200GE processor armed with Radeon Vega 3 graphics.

Intel's Core i5-9600K looks to upset the Ryzen 5 2600X as the value chip for the mainstream.

The high-end desktop hits keep on coming as Intel rolls out its 18-core, 36-thread Core i9-9980XE.

For the enthusiasts among us who have some breathing room in their budgets, Core i7-9700K is a much smarter choice for gaming than the pricey Core i9-9900K.

The $1,300 Ryzen Threadripper 2790WX comes bristling with 24 cores and 48 threads of processing power, but is it better than the less-expensive Threadripper X-series models?

More cores, higher frequencies, and performance-boosting Solder TIM place the Core i9-9900K ahead of the pack. Just be prepared to pay for it.

AMD's Threadripper 2 series barrels into the high end desktop with the record-setting 32-core 64-thread Threadripper 2 2990WX.

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.