TL;DR: PassMark has been aggregating CPU performance data for nearly two decades based on collective scores recorded through its benchmarking software. For the first time in 20 years, however, the ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. PassMark has made an interesting observation about CPU performance in that in 2025, it's now heading downwards - for the first time ever possibly, or ...

Year after year, CPUs get faster. Even a midrange chip from today's PCs can run circles around the fastest processors from a decade ago. But last year? That's debatable. According to the makers of ...

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 ...

Intel places seven CPUs in PassMark's top ten price performance rankings AMD leads only through discounted Ryzen 5 clearance entries Value favors Intel across widely available desktop CPUs Intel ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Intel's Arrow Lake lineup of CPUs contains several SKUs that are not publicly available for purchase. Intel reserves these CPUs for OEMs only, which is why ...

Early benchmarks are promising for AMD's upcoming Ryzen 9 9950X3D, with the 16-core CPU reportedly topping the PassMark multi-threaded charts. A single benchmark run has yielded a score of 69,702 ...

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 ...

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, ...

With the AMD Ryzen 8000G series release date now imminent, alleged benchmarks demonstrating the performance of the APUs are continuing to leak. In good news for would-be buyers of the chips, though, ...