Jacob Roach / Digital Trends Intel’s Core i9-13900K is one of the best processors you can buy. The 24-core behemoth can rip through productivity workloads with ease, and it’s easily one of the fastest gaming CPUs money can buy. Even with so much power under the hood, it’s not the right choice for everyone. Supreme … Read more
Jacob Roach / DigitalTrends I’ve been using Intel CPUs for close to seven years. It started with the Core i7-8700K, but I moved on to the Core i9-10900K, Core i9-12900K, and most recently, the Core i9-13900K, all of which could have occupied a slot among the best processors at different points in time. But after … Read more
AMD The spec sheets for AMD’s upcoming APU lineups, dubbed Strix Point and Strix Halo, have just been leaked, and it’s safe to say that they’re looking pretty impressive. Equipped with Zen 5 cores, the new APUs will find their way to laptops that are meant to be on the thinner side, but their performance … Read more
Jacob Roach / Digital Trends It’s already been an exciting year for graphics cards, but things are really about to start heating up. A series of leaks and rumors over the past year suggest that Nvidia, AMD, and Intel will all launch new GPU generations in the back half of 2024, with the three graphics … Read more
Modern processors are exceedingly powerful, but you don’t have to buy a flagship design to get a great chip. The best budget CPUs can hold their own and punch well above their weight in gaming and productivity. But you don’t want to lock yourself into an old ecosystem. All of our favorite budget CPUs offer … Read more
Video editing is one of the most intensive tasks you can ask of your CPU — even one of the best ones. It’s also one of those tasks that a CPU can really dig into, utilizing as many cores as it has on hand, and as high a clock speed as it can handle. Video … Read more
It’s tough to find the right gaming CPU for your next PC. We’ve benchmarked dozens of processors to find the best CPU for gaming, and there’s a clear winner right now: AMD’s Ryzen 7 7800X3D. Although the latest chip from Team Red claims the crown, there are still several other great options on the market. … Read more
Jacob Roach / Digital Trends In modern PC games, you have the difficult decision between Nvidia’s Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) and AMD’s FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR). Both are upscaling tools that promise higher frame rates while using the best graphics cards, but there are some key differences between them. I’ve been testing DLSS and … Read more
Jacob Roach / Digital Trends RAM is one of the primary components in a PC, and it’s important that you have at least a certain amount of RAM depending on what you want to do with your PC. However, there are more things to RAM than just capacity: Frequency and latency are important considerations, too. The … Read more
“Our customers, first and foremost, are asking for choice in the industry,” said Intel vice-president, strategy and product management Jeni Barovian. “They are coming to us and they are expecting that Intel, as a computing leader, will follow the wave of (generative AI) and deliver solutions that meet their needs. And they are looking for … Read more
