TL;DR: AMD's Ryzen 5 5500X3D, a new Zen 3 processor, shows strong synthetic performance with Geekbench scores of 1936 (single-core) and 9292 (multi-core), outperforming the Ryzen 5 5500 by up to 13%.

Intel has detailed major updates in the quest to improve performance of its ill-fated Core Ultra 200 Arrow Lake processors that were released back in October. The inconsistent performance at times saw ...

If your PC doesn’t deliver the desired performance in a particular game, it’s usually—but not always—due to two limiting factors. Either your processor (CPU) or your graphics card (GPU) is ...

Recently we took an interesting look at how much progress Intel CPUs have made over the past six years, testing 5th-gen Core against 10th-gen Core processors' gaming performance. We covered two angles ...

AMD has recently declared that a concerning vulnerability, known as 'Inception', is affecting its Ryzen CPUs. Until now, we weren't sure exactly how Inception might impact your gaming PC. But thanks ...

After looking at the last few generations of Intel and AMD CPUs separately, here's our final installment in the gaming performance progress series. In this article we'll be comparing a decade of AMD ...