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Thanks to its hugely powerful new integrated Xe3 GPU, the Intel Panther Lake laptop CPU series has stolen a surprise victory ...

3DMark and Superposition are considered two of the most reliable GPU benchmarking tools out there. Cinebench 2024 is also a great option to consider if you want to test both the CPU and GPU for ...

When Apple announced the first three chips in its M3 processor family, the M3 Pro immediately stood out. Not because it was a huge leap over the prior generation, but because it was the first time we ...

Discover the true value in midrange vs flagship GPU choices. This GPU value comparison explores gaming graphics cards, ...

At Apple’s first-ever evening special event on October 30 dubbed “Scary Fast,” the company proudly announced its new M3 chips. For the first time ever, an entire generation of Apple silicon for Mac ...

Put me on the short list of people who can get excited about the humble, much-derided integrated GPU. Yes, most of them are afterthoughts, designed for office desktops and laptops that will spend most ...

There is nothing quite like great hardware to motivate people to create and tune software to take full advantage of it during a boom time. And as we have been saying since we first caught wind of the ...

In a world where smartphones are essential to our daily lives, the demand for faster, more powerful processors continues to grow. Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite is an innovative mobile CPU designed to ...

Maxon introduces Cinebench 2026, the latest benchmark with support for Nvidia Blackwell and AMD Radeon 9000 GPUs, Apple M4/M5 silicon, and a new SMT CPU test, offering a more realistic evaluation of ...

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