Intel’s Core Ultra 9 285K is Team Blue's fastest desktop chip and currently sells for $519 on Amazon (discounted from $599). AMD’s competing Ryzen 9 9950X3D, positioned as a premium gaming and content creation processor, costs roughly $676 there.

Intel's long awaited Panther Lake CPU has made an appearance in the Geekbench results browser (via Videocardz). And the early numbers look, well, kind of okay. According to the Geekbench entry, we're talking 2,849 single-core points and 15,434 multi-core ...

Intel’s Alder Lake-N processors have proven popular with budget laptop, Chromebook, and mini PC makers since they first debuted nearly two years ago. These chips are basically what you get if you take a 12th-gen Intel Core processor and equip it with ...

Single-thread performance narrows the gap far further. Intel’s processor scores about 4,926, slightly ahead of the Ryzen 9 7950X at roughly 4,876, which matters for everyday desktop workloads that don’t scale cleanly across dozens of threads.

Without getting them into our lab, we don’t know if all those performance boasts actually hold water. Fortunately, Gordon got ahold of some hard data and covered it in the latest PCWorld YouTube video below. Sponsored analyst firm Signal65 has some ...

Intel has quietly released a whole range of new 14th-gen Raptor Lake CPUs that do away completely with the company's low-power E-Cores, and instead house only high-power P-Cores. This focus on raw power means the new range, which is topped by the Intel ...

Intel’s cheapest desktop CPUs are now faster than AMD's, and Team Red is feeling pressure across the sub-$200 market.

The benchmarks are drawn from Geekbench 6.5 and UL's Procyon suite, run on Windows 11 laptops. Qualcomm claims the 10-core X2 Plus can deliver up to