AMD's fastest Ryzen processor shows 14.2% single- and 11,5% multi-threaded uplifts against its predecessor in PassMark tests.

The latest Ryzen 9 9950X3D has been showing a solid boost in single-core performance, clocking about 14% faster than its previous version in benchmark tests. In controlled tests using PassMark, this ...

PC performance scores submitted to PassMark show what appears to be the first-ever dip in average CPU performance across two ...

A few Ryzen 9 9950X3D CPUs have been tested in PassMark, delivering 14% higher performance than the last-generation Ryzen 9 ...

But last year? That's debatable. According to the makers of benchmarking software PassMark, aggregated CPU performance in 2025 is trending down for the first time in the 20 years PassMark has existed.

Benchmarking software developer PassMark publishes the average results of all Windows PC tests across the globe every two weeks in a line graph. In line with what many enthusiasts might expect ...

The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D and Ryzen 9 9900X3D processors will officially launch on March 12. These processors feature 12 and 16 ...

PassMark recently released a CPU performance report that shows some interesting trends. They’ve been tracking performance on Windows PCs since 2008 by looking at benchmark scores from the best ...

TL;DR: PassMark has crunched its benchmark data and observed a drop in CPU performance so far in 2025, theorizing about whether this might be down to hardware, or software issues (such as ...

PassMark reports that Nvidia has dropped 32-bit OpenCL support, rendering legacy code unusable on Blackwell (RTX 50) hardware ...

With Nvidia RTX 50-series gaming laptops now up for grabs, we're starting to see new GPU benchmarks roll in. Unsurprisingly, ...

In comparison, the RTX 4090 still offers around a 32% gain over the RTX 5070, with big differences in DirectX 9 through ...