Apple's M3-series of chips have started to enter PassMark's CPU benchmark database and continued tradition of their predecessors of being ahead of all rivals in single-thread workloads. Unfortunately ...

Clock speeds are a baseless measure to estimate a CPU's performance on their own.

The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9980X CPU is slated to arrive later this month and will be one of if not the fastest desktop processor on the market, according to the latest tests on PassMark. The 64-core, ...

Hyper-Threading is one of those concepts that's been around a long time, and which everyone takes for granted. Despite that, relatively few enthusiasts really understand how it works or what the point ...

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 ...

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Intel Nova Lake-S leaks a 5,210 single-thread PassMark score, beating current flagships, but its multi-thread result trails AMD and Arrow Lake chips.

Intel's upcoming Core Ultra 7 255H mobile processor shows impressive single-threaded performance in a leaked PassMark benchmark, but its multi-core capabilities raise concerns. The Passmark results ...

What is a multicore processor? A multicore processor is an integrated circuit that has two or more processor cores attached for enhanced performance and reduced power consumption. These processors ...

For years, the data-center CPU race has revolved around a fairly straightforward question: how many cores can fit into a server, and how much work can they chew through at once? NVIDIA now argues that ...