TL;DR: PassMark has crunched its benchmark data and observed a drop in CPU performance so far in 2025, theorizing about whether this might be down to hardware, or software issues (such as bloatware, ...

If you head on over to the PassMark Software CPUs benchmarks pages you might be a little surprised to find that the unreleased AMD Ryzen 5 5600X desktop processor features in its tables and charts.

' PassMark PerformanceTest ' is a benchmark software that performs multiple benchmarks on five items: 'CPU,' '2D graphics,' '3F graphics,' 'memory,' and 'disk speed,' and provides detailed numerical ...

Windows 11 arrived with promises of tighter security, modern visuals, and smarter scheduling, yet a growing body of benchmarks now paints a more awkward picture: in many common workloads, it lags ...

PassMark recently released a CPU performance report that shows some interesting trends. They’ve been tracking performance on Windows PCs since 2008 by looking at benchmark scores from the ...

AMD does hold the top two spots, but don't be fooled. One comes from an entry-level Ryzen 5 benefiting from clearance pricing ...

Intel and fans of the company would surely be happy with this report. In the latest PassMark update rankings for single-threaded performance, Team Blue's 12th Gen Alder Lake-S desktop processors have ...

The popular comparison benchmark Cinebench has a new version. It explicitly includes a test for Simultaneous Multithreading.

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 ...

Ever since at least the Ryzen 3000 series, AMD's release schedule for its Ryzen desktop processors has been to launch the enthusiast-focused "X" processors first, followed by the very-slightly ...

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 ...

CPU-Z is a free hardware information display tool that can display basic information such as CPU, motherboard, memory, etc., and can also measure benchmarks. However, it has been pointed out that ...