TL;DR: PassMark has crunched its benchmark data and observed a drop in CPU performance so far in 2025, theorizing about whether this might be down to hardware, or software issues (such as bloatware, ...

Year after year, CPUs get faster. Even a midrange chip from today's PCs can run circles around the fastest processors from a decade ago. But last year? That's debatable. According to the makers of ...

A highly detailed Meteor Lake benchmark listing has made an appearance in PassMark's database featuring a new CPU called the Core Ultra 7 155H. The listing features unusually-detailed CPU ...

Something to look forward to: Intel will launch brand new Arrow Lake-S desktop CPUs later this month. Ahead of its release, the flagship Core Ultra 9 285K has appeared on the PassMark benchmark ...

Intel’s Panther Lake generation is almost ready to hit store shelves, with the first Core Ultra Series 3 laptops expected to arrive on January 27. Ahead of that date, early performance data for the ...

A new PassMark database entry is giving us another early look at Intel’s rumored Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus, a flagship-class Arrow Lake Refresh mobile CPU that still hasn’t been formally introduced.

With the AMD Ryzen 8000G series release date now imminent, alleged benchmarks demonstrating the performance of the APUs are continuing to leak. In good news for would-be buyers of the chips, though, ...

Intel and fans of the company would surely be happy with this report. In the latest PassMark update rankings for single-threaded performance, Team Blue's 12th Gen Alder Lake-S desktop processors have ...

Things move fast in the world of PC hardware. One day you're sitting on the top of the throne; the next, you're an also-ran. Such is the case with AMD's fledgling Zen 4 mobile CPU, the "Dragon Range" ...