At some point, everyone learns that a CPU has a variable number of cores inside, and that number influences its performance. The next natural impulse is to find out how many cores your CPU has. The ...

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 ...

Hyper-Threading is one of those concepts that's been around a long time, and which everyone takes for granted. Despite that, relatively few enthusiasts really understand how it works or what the point ...

Comet Lake-S is still going as Intel quietly launched the Core i5-110 CPU earlier this quarter, blending old and new naming ...

The company says its new 14th Gen Core CPUs are for embedded systems and not intended for consumer use, but there's no reason at all that gamers couldn't buy one of these new CPUs. The new flagship ...

Intel is reportedly working on a budget entry-level CPU called "Intel 300" with 2 cores and 4 threads, surprising for a 2023 CPU. The Intel 300 CPU is said to be the successor to the Intel Pentium ...

Intel may be launching a new CPU in its "Black Edition" series, offering better performance but the same power profile as the regular Intel Core i5-14400. The rumored Intel Core i5-14490F will have 10 ...

In this review, we’ve focused on the sheer might that is the Ryzen Threadripper 9980X—AMD’s 64-core, 128-thread powerhouse aimed at creators and pros who need serious multi-threaded performance. Over ...

Within a matter of months, Intel will introduce its first Alder Lake processors, effectively marking a near wholesale transition to hybrid computing, and kicking off the DDR5 memory era. From an ...

The Ryzen 7 9700F features a 3.8 GHz base clock and a 5.5 GHz boost clock. Built on TSMC's 4 nm FinFET process, it offers 32 MB of L3 cache, ...