I'm trying to upgrade a system or two for virtualization tinkering and I'm having a hard time figuring out the naming scheme of all the various processors, their performance relative to one another ...

It's not surprising to find that the Ryzen 7 9800X3D is the most popular processor on Amazon.com right now. The chip we called the New Gaming ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The CPU is the beating heart of a desktop computer. Whether it's a blazing-fast gaming rig or a workstation designed for crunching through ...

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 ...

Good gods, but I feel silly posting this question. -- View image here: http://episteme.arstechnica.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_eek.gif --<br><br>I'm looking for ...

HPC and hyperscale guys are excited for Intel's Xeon Max processors with onboard HBM, but Sapphire Rapids comprises an entire line of processors spanning the whole range of Xeons. One of those chips ...

What with the ongoing 13th and 14th Gen CPU debacle, wouldn't it be nice if Intel had a hot new generation of desktop processors to fix everything. In theory, that would be Arrow Lake, due out later ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dave Altavilla is a Tech Analyst covering chips, compute and AI. In the over two decades that I’ve been covering the PC space, I ...

CPU-Z highlights that the 970 BE of the same C3 revision as the 125W Phenom II X4 965 BE. No surprises there. Moreover, AMD's processor-comparison chart shows that the only meaningful difference ...