It was high-time for an update to our gpu benchmark system, so here Dominic takes us through the new rig and explains the thinking behind each of the components. Expect to see this system in our gpu ...

How We Test Computers ...

TL;DR: CPU-Z Validator now alerts users if their NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 series GPU has missing ROPs, which can reduce performance. This update helps identify affected GPUs, such as the RTX 5090, RTX ...

How we test laptops at ZDNET in 2026 ...

Those are pretty stellar estimated scores for the top-end M5 Max. Around 4,500 for single-core CPU performance is a lot, but ...

For most other scenarios, though, especially those that will have your GPU busy as a bee, then grabbing a set of slow DDR5 to ...

With a clock speed bump and... not much else, the AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D still manages to impress as the fastest gaming CPU ...