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 ...

Intel dominates the top end of PassMark’s price performance rankings in a way that would have seemed unlikely just a few ...

Intel finally has the most efficient x86 processors and claims to beat both Apple and Snapdragon in terms of performance and efficiency. Intel’s latest Lunar Lake processors use a hybrid architecture ...

AMD's hold on the gaming handheld market might finally be under threat. A new benchmark shows Intel Lunar Lake CPUs stomping over the competition with huge performance boosts compared to the AMD chips ...

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 ...

Advanced Micro Devices and Intel compete fiercely in CPU market for PCs and servers, with Intel leading desktops and AMD leading servers. AMD has gained market share in desktop and server CPUs, but ...

Bottom line: In the high-stakes competition for the best server CPUs, Intel's latest entry, the "Sierra Forest" Xeon with a whopping 144 cores is quite the show. However, it's not just about the ...

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 ...

Intel is sunsetting the Pentium and Celeron brands for low-end laptop parts. Low-end laptop processors will apparently just be called "Intel Processors" now. Simple enough, we suppose. The tearless ...

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