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PassMark Data Shows First-Ever Yearly Drop in CPU Performance
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.
New benchmark shows CPUs are getting slower for the first time in history — what is going on?
In a surprise first for the ages, PassMark has revealed that the average CPU performance on desktops and laptops in 2025 has declined year-on-year. Despite new Intel Arrow Lake and AMD Fire Range ...
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16-core Ryzen 9 9950X3D chip allegedly 14% faster than last-gen in PassMark
clocking about 14% faster than its previous version in benchmark tests. In controlled tests using PassMark, this chip runs on par with the regular model for single-thread tasks, but it edges out ...
M3 Ultra vs. M4 Max: Which is better? Benchmarks can’t tell either
Early benchmarks for the M3 Ultra Mac Studio have leaked, showing CPU performance that barely beats the M4 Max.