Ever since at least the Ryzen 3000 series, AMD's release schedule for its Ryzen desktop processors has been to launch the ...

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 ...

Just days before the retail embargo, a handful of Ryzen 9 9950X3D samples appear to have been tested in PassMark, a benchmarking utility (via x86deadandback on X). Based on the first few sets of ...

AMD Ryzen 5 9600 was spotted in PassMark’s database sitting closely behind the performance of 9600X, all while costing £20 ...

In controlled tests using PassMark, this chip runs on par with the regular model for single-thread tasks, but it edges out older generations when it comes to overall performance. Although these ...