Compiling got faster, but the real cost was heat and fans.

Some methodology changes to be kind of like a few other sites (Tom’s Hardware comes to mind), But methodology changes or otherwise (which you may or may not agree with- I most certainly have mixed ...

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Editor’s Note: I accidentally used data I tested with Intel’s Arrow Lake (the Core Ultra 285H) in place of Intel’s Lunar Lake (the Core Ultra 258V) chip instead. I’ve adjusted the graphs accordingly.

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 correspondent and author of Notepad, who has been covering all ...

It has been about two and a half years since we last did a review for Intel processors, back then the 14th generation of Core Ultra CPUs were being released and we pitched the i5-14600K and i9-14900K ...

AMD’s Ryzen mobile processors appear in about a third of all productivity laptops sold today. So, how does the Ryzen AI 400, AMD’s latest mobile processor, actually hold up in real-world battery tests ...

With the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D having sat at the pinnacle of the gaming CPU mountain for over a year now, it was about time AMD really shook things up and released a barnstorming new processor to show ...