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.

Intel dominates the top end of PassMark’s price performance rankings in a way that would have seemed unlikely just a few ...

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 ...

AMD’s unreleased Ryzen 7 7845HX laptop processor has appeared in PassMark’s laptop CPU performance charts. The Dragon Range processor, which mixes Zen 4 CPU cores and RDNA 2 graphics, hasn’t quietly ...

A highly detailed Meteor Lake benchmark listing has made an appearance in PassMark's database featuring a new CPU called the Core Ultra 7 155H. The listing features unusually-detailed CPU ...

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 ...