How We Test Computers ...

If you’re the type of person who is truly interested in performance, then you may have considered benchmarking your laptop or desktop computer. Having the best performance is always a good idea, and ...

Intel’s Core Ultra lineup of desktop and laptop processors has been frustrating to review. None of them have been ...

Standardized, repeatable testing underpins everything we review at PCMag. Here's how we evaluate desktop CPUs, from pure processing trials to gauging a processor's nuanced effects on graphics ...

For those who have been following hardware news and reviews for a long time, the concept of testing a processor at low resolution is not something new, it has almost become a habit to see CPUs being ...

One of the best ways to evaluate the performance of your CPU is to run one of the many great benchmarks that are available. They’ll test its raw performance in both single-threaded and multi-threaded ...

AMD lost out to Intel’s Core i9-13900K recently, but it’s back with its 3D V-Cache technology to challenge Intel again. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things ...

We recently stacked the Ryzen 5 7500F against Intel's Core i5-12400F across a wide set of games to see which CPU makes the most sense on a new budget PC build. The takeaway was easy: the 7500F came ...

TL;DR: AMD's Ryzen 5 5500X3D, a new Zen 3 processor, shows strong synthetic performance with Geekbench scores of 1936 (single-core) and 9292 (multi-core), outperforming the Ryzen 5 5500 by up to 13%.