We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The CPU is the beating heart of a desktop computer. Whether it's a blazing-fast gaming rig or a workstation designed for crunching through ...

Intel's first desktop CPU to use both a chiplet design and TSMC's 3nm process has finally arrived, and its first review paints a picture of a company in transition. Performance is a bit all over the ...

Intel launched its high-performance Arrow Lake-H and HX series mobile processors, officially known as the Core Ultra 200H and 200HX, at CES 2025 and showed off an array of partner systems based on the ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. The Intel Core Ultra 9 285K is the new flagship in Intel's upcoming Arrow Lake desktop CPU line-up, which is expected to be announced and unveiled this ...

For creators and power users, few CPUs come close to the performance offered by the AMD Ryzen Threadripper line. The new AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series—most notably the 9980X and 9970X—brings the ...

TL;DR: AMD's Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series "Shimada Peak" CPUs, featuring the new Zen 5 architecture, are set to launch with 96-core and 16-core models for HEDT systems. The flagship 96-core CPU ...

AMD’s 7800X3D successor is also better at non-gaming workloads this time around. If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. is a senior ...

None of this matters when the only solution that AMD has put forth is disabling half the CPU when a game is detected. You also fail to address thread-to-thread communication. Threads bounce around ...

AMD doesn’t have to do much to stay on the top of the heap for PC gaming CPUs. The class-leading Ryzen 7 9850X3D doesn’t have any real competition. So what does Team Red do instead? Reconfigure its ...

The big picture: Intel's Arrow Lake Core Ultra 200K desktop CPUs begin shipping next week, and third-party benchmark results have started appearing. Intel's unveiling earlier this month tempered ...