There's Intel and AMD on the x86 side, with Apple and Qualcomm making Arm-based processors on the other. We break down the advantages and drawbacks of each to help you pick the right chip for your ...

I've been buying and using CPUs for PC gaming for over three decades, so now you can learn from the mistakes I've made in the past. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

I knew this was coming — I just didn’t expect it to happen quite just yet. It turns out that some of the best processors are on their way toward retirement, because eight-core CPUs are slowly becoming ...

The AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D is a new Zen 5 8-core/16-thread CPU from AMD using 2nd Generation 3D V-Cache, to provide a large 96MB of L3 cache, geared as a gaming CPU, but with improvements to base clock ...

When Intel launched Lunar Lake (Core Ultra 200V) in 2024 we gave you the technical details and followed up with a review of ...

Even three years later, AMD’s high-end X3D-series processors still aren’t a thing that most people need to spend extra money on—under all but a handful of circumstances, your GPU will be the limiting ...

Intel’s new desktop CPUs are radically different than the Intel CPUs you’re used to. Today marks the launch of Arrow Lake, the company’s latest architecture for desktop processors, formally sold as ...

Intel’s 14th-generation desktop processors were a mild update on top of a mild update: a barely faster revision of the 13th-gen Core CPUs, which were themselves a modest tweak to 2021’s 12th-gen Core ...

TL;DR: Apple's new M5 processor powers the latest MacBook Pro, Vision Pro headset, and iPad Pro with up to 10 CPU and GPU cores, delivering 15% faster multi-threaded performance, 30% higher memory ...

AMD argues that as AI systems move toward agentic and multi-step reasoning, CPUs are becoming central to performance.