We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Since its release in November 2024, the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D desktop CPU has proven to be the hottest AMD CPU for PC gamers. Not literally, as ...

One of the most powerful features available to Ryzen CPUs is Precision Boost Overdrive, or PBO. It's an algorithm built into your Ryzen CPU that dynamically optimizes power and frequency based on some ...

Average CPU Performance on PCs Stalls After 20 Years of Gains PC performance scores submitted to PassMark show what appears to be the first-ever dip in average CPU performance across two decades of ...

Not long ago, a reader asked a simple but familiar question: which CPU is the better pick for budget gaming, the Core i5 12400F or the Ryzen 5 7500F? The 12400F first landed in early 2022, and when we ...

One of the best-selling AMD CPUs right now – actually, one of the best-selling CPUs, period – is a processor we once recommended avoiding at all costs. When we first reviewed it three and a half years ...