There's Intel and AMD on the x86 side, with Apple and Qualcomm making Arm-based processors on the other. We break down the advantages and drawbacks of each to help you pick the right chip for your ...

At the event, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger explained: "AI innovation is poised to raise the digital economy's impact up to as much as one-third of global gross domestic product. Intel is developing the ...

The new AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7000 WX series CPUs comes in 6 different SKUs available, starting out at with the Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7945WX processor with 12 cores and 24 threads at up to ...

Some workloads are a single tangled-up thread with various data types and crunchy compute; for these, our modern CPU cores are perfectly-suited. Other workloads (like, say, graphics) are giant piles ...

For creators and power users, few CPUs come close to the performance offered by the AMD Ryzen Threadripper line. The new AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series—most notably the 9980X and 9970X—brings the ...

Leo has finally had time to review the 13700k processor Intel sent to him a while ago. He is impressed. We find out why.

For developers, threading is an important issue that impacts game performance. Here's how task scheduling works in Apple Silicon games. Demands on GPU and CPUs are some of the most compute-intensive ...

For as long as I’ve been building PCs, there’s been one number that always gets enthusiasts buzzing – core count. In most cases, every leap forward in desktop processors has been measured in how many ...

In this best-of rundown, we're going to outline the top 10 best gaming processors available in 2025. The CPUs featured here should offer some of the best gaming performance per-dollar in their ...

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Rahim is a Senior Tech/Commerce Writer at Valnet and builds PCs & networking solutions on demand. Whether It's your GPU, CPU, Display, or just an SSD upgrade, expect him to have a well-researched ...