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, ...

A new PassMark database entry has put Intel’s P-core-only “Bartlett Lake” chatter back on the radar, after months with little ...

Early performance data for Intel’s upcoming Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus has quietly appeared online, offering a first glimpse at ...

Soon, laptops based on Intel Core Ultra 5 245HX processors. One of them was recently tested in the PassMark benchmark and outperformed the desktop Core Ultra 5 245 by 7-8%. The advantage over the ...

AMD’s unreleased Ryzen 7 7845HX laptop processor has appeared in PassMark’s laptop CPU performance charts. The Dragon Range processor, which mixes Zen 4 CPU cores and RDNA 2 graphics, hasn’t quietly ...

And all of the sudden the benchmarks are in favor of Intel again. Last week Passmark 10 was released, and the CPU benchmarks invike an AVX 512 test, which AMD does not support. However, it jacks up ...

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 ...

The AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX APU is proving to be an exceptional piece of engineering. Not only does it stand up to the powerful Intel Core i9-13980HX and i9-13950HX mobile processors, but it's also pushing ...

The 24-core Core Ultra 9 285K broke the 5,000-point barrier in the single-threaded test, scoring ahead of Apple's M3 processor and AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X Intel's forthcoming flagship CPU, the Core Ultra ...

AMD's Ryzen 9 3950X has already earned its stripes prior to its release on November 25, 2019. The 16-core Zen 2 CPU has been spotted within the Passmark benchmark toppling Intel's Xeon W-3175X - a ...