Intel just boosted gaming performance by up to 155%

Intel just boosted gaming performance by up to 155%

Intel’s engineers once again managed to introduce significant improvements in the latest driver update — but this time, it’s not the discrete graphics cards that received a boost. Instead, the recent patch targets integrated Intel Arc GPUs found in Intel Core Ultra processors, which are some of Intel’s top CPUs for laptops. This update adds … Read more

AMD Ryzen 7 7700X vs. Intel Core i5-14600K: best $300 CPU?

AMD Ryzen 7 7700X vs. Intel Core i5-14600K: best 0 CPU?

Jacob Roach / Digital Trends If you want a midrange processor in 2024, two of the best options available are AMD’s Ryzen 7 7700X and Intel’s Core i5-14600K. These $300-ish processors offer lots of cores for high performance computing and gaming, as well as 5GHz+ clock speeds. They aren’t quite as powerful as the very … Read more

Ryzen 5 5600 vs. Core i3-14100F: best CPUs for under $100

Ryzen 5 5600 vs. Core i3-14100F: best CPUs for under 0

Jacob Roach / Digital Trends If you’re buying or building an ultra-budget PC, then two of the best CPU options around $100 are the AMD Ryzen 5 5600, and the Intel Core i3-14100F. These chips come from two different manufacturers from different generations, and are built on very different designs. But which is best? It … Read more

The best CPU for the RTX 4070 or 4070 Ti

The best CPU for the RTX 4070 or 4070 Ti

Intel Core i5-13600K Best Intel CPU for the 4070 and 4070 Ti Jump to details AMD Ryzen 5 7600X Best budget CPU for the RTX 4070 and 4070 Ti Jump to details Show 1 more item The Nvidia RTX 4070 and RTX 4070 Ti are among the best graphics cards you can buy for high … Read more

Intel may have a monster new CPU coming soon

Intel may have a monster new CPU coming soon

The Core i9-13900KS was a milestone product for Intel, as it was the first consumer processor capable of reaching an impressive 6GHz straight out of the box. This year, Team Blue is expected to take it up a notch. A recent leak reported by Tom’s Hardware has unveiled crucial details about Intel’s upcoming flagship CPU, … Read more

AMD vs. Intel: the rivalry has never been more fierce

AMD vs. Intel: the rivalry has never been more fierce

Picking between AMD and Intel is one of the main considerations when building a new PC. Like macOS versus Windows, the AMD versus Intel rivalry is one of the greatest debates for PC enthusiasts, and right now, we are in the middle of a neck-and-neck race that’s bound to get even more heated. AMD’s latest … Read more

AMD Zen 5: Everything we know about AMD’s next-gen CPUs

AMD Zen 5: Everything we know about AMD’s next-gen CPUs

Jacob Roach / Digital Trends AMD Zen 5 is the next-generation Ryzen CPU architecture for Team Red and is slated for a launch sometime in 2024. We’ve been hearing tantalizing rumors for a while now and promises of big leaps in performance. In short, Zen 5 could be very exciting indeed. We don’t have all … Read more

AMD’s Ryzen 8000G still can’t make the APU dream a reality

AMD’s Ryzen 8000G still can’t make the APU dream a reality

Jacob Roach / Digital Trends I could barely contain my excitement when AMD announced its Ryzen 8000G APUs. It was a return to form, offering the latest in AMD’s CPU and GPU architectures in a single package for a low price. More than that, there was hope that these would be the first APUs to … Read more

A major era in Intel chip technology may be coming to an end

A major era in Intel chip technology may be coming to an end

Intel Intel’s next-generation Arrow Lake chips are said to be coming out later this year, but we don’t know much about them just yet. However, a new leak shows us that two crucial features may be missing from the next-gen CPU lineup: hyperthreading and support for the AVX-512 extension. If Intel is ditching hyperthreading, it’s … Read more

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

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

Intel Arrow Lake 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 and ditch one of Intel … Read more