AMD Ryzen AI offers up to 75% faster gaming than Intel

AMD Ryzen AI offers up to 75% faster gaming than Intel

AMD has just unveiled some internal benchmarks of its Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 processor. Although it’s been a few months since the release of the Ryzen AI 300 series, AMD now compares its CPU to Intel’s Lunar Lake, and the benchmarks are highly favorable for AMD’s best processor for thin-and-light laptops. Let’s check them … Read more

Scalpers are jacking up the price of the Ryzen 7 9800X3D

Scalpers are jacking up the price of the Ryzen 7 9800X3D

Blink and you missed it — the Ryzen 7 9800X3D is sold out everywhere. As you can read in our Ryzen 7 9800X3D review, it’s one of the best processors you can buy, and just minutes after the first listings went live, the CPU went out of stock. Scalpers on eBay are already capitalizing. Dozens … Read more

Early Black Friday 2024 CPU deals: AMD, Intel battle it out

Early Black Friday 2024 CPU deals: AMD, Intel battle it out

Update 10/30/24: AMD surely seems like the place to be right now, in terms of quality and deals, but we were able to find deals for both AMD and Intel CPUs at this time. At this point, we’re really excited to see where the deals season takes us. It’s that time again, Black Friday. While … Read more

Next-gen laptops may have a weird mix of components

Next-gen laptops may have a weird mix of components

Many gamers are awaiting CES 2025 with a great deal of excitement. Not only are we said to be getting Nvidia’s RTX 50-series, but we should also see some of the next-gen top gaming laptops make their debut during the event. However, according to a new leak, these next-gen laptops may not be so next-gen … Read more

AMD confirms 9000X3D release date, but one question remains

AMD confirms 9000X3D release date, but one question remains

AMD just made a surprise announcement regarding its upcoming processors, but it leaves us with two major questions: What’s coming, and how much will it cost? The release date was announced to be November 7, but we’re unsure which chips are coming on that date. While details are very scarce, the first listings of the … Read more

Not this again: Intel Arrow Lake may have instability issues

Not this again: Intel Arrow Lake may have instability issues

Intel’s Arrow Lake is just a couple of days from hitting the market, and we’ve been inundated with various reports and leaked benchmarks. Today’s news doesn’t sound good, though. YouTuber Moore’s Law Is Dead reports that Arrow Lake, also referred to as Core Ultra 200-S, may have some instability issues — much like what we’ve … Read more

Intel Core Ultra 9 285K vs. Core i9-14900K: a tough sell

Intel Core Ultra 9 285K vs. Core i9-14900K: a tough sell

Intel Arrow Lake processors are here, and the Core Ultra 9 285K stands at the top of the lineup as Intel’s current best CPU. However, the chip faces a lot of competition not just from AMD, but also from Intel’s own last-gen Raptor Lake refresh. Even Intel itself can’t deny that performance-wise, the Core Ultra … Read more

Intel Arrow Lake: what we know about 15th-gen chips

Intel Arrow Lake: what we know about 15th-gen chips

Intel Arrow Lake, or Core Ultra 200, is Team Blue’s next generation of processors. The successors to the Meteor Lake/Raptor Lake refresh 14th-generation, Arrow Lake is expected to debut towards the end of 2024, but it’s not quite as straightforward as previous generations. It may launch alongside another low-power version to maximize Intel’s fabrication capacity … Read more

AMD’s new CPU could silently replace the Ryzen 7 7800X3D

AMD’s new CPU could silently replace the Ryzen 7 7800X3D

AMD just expanded its lineup of gaming CPUs, but it’s not a Zen 5 chip. Instead, AMD launched a new Zen 4 CPU, the Ryzen 5 7600X3D. Once again a Micro Center exclusive, the CPU could be an interesting budget offering … if not for the fact that it still costs a pretty penny. Meanwhile, … Read more