TL;DR: PassMark has been aggregating CPU performance data for nearly two decades based on collective scores recorded through its benchmarking software. For the first time in 20 years, however, the ...

At GTC Taipei, NVIDIA unveiled 'RTX Spark,' its new superchip designed for Windows PCs. The chip targets slim laptops and ...

PCWorld reports that desktop PC performance gains will come at a premium in 2026, with component shortages affecting RAM, SSDs, and GPUs making upgrades more expensive. Intel’s Arrow Lake Refresh and ...

The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9980X CPU is slated to arrive later this month and will be one of if not the fastest desktop processor on the market, according to the latest tests on PassMark. The 64-core, ...

Ever wondered how your Windows PC stacks up against the latest machines? Want to know if you should consider an upgrade? Benchmarking software offers a fantastic solution to this curiosity. These ...

The initial quartet of AMD’s new Ryzen 9000-series processors is finally ready, and now, we get to test out the flagship. The Ryzen 9 9950X is a $649, 16-core desktop processor representing the ...

PC bottleneck detection helps pinpoint which component limits performance when games stutter, apps lag, or multitasking feels sluggish. Many slow PC diagnosis issues surface through simple observation ...

A new AMD Ryzen CPU benchmark leak has just appeared, and it shows the potentially awesome power of the company's new Threadripper CPUs for multi-threading work. This new leak appears to show the raw ...

Acer's Veriton RA110 AI Mini Workstation packs AMD's Ryzen AI Max+ 395 into a compact desktop with up to 128GB RAM and local ...

I stopped fearing BIOS after this.

The main processor (CPU, “Central Processing Unit”), the main memory (RAM, “Random-Access Memory”), and the dedicated graphics card with its graphics processor (GPU, “Graphics Processing Unit”) are ...