No, the new CPUs are not actually *that* fast.
Recent PassMark results show the Core Ultra 3 205T as 4% faster in single-core performance but 10% slower in multi-core performance than the Ultra 5 225T.
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, ...
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 ...
The first AMD Ryzen 7 7700X CPU benchmark has arrived ahead of the launch of team red's latest processor series, and the results indicate we could be in for a substantial generational leap in ...