In reviewing CPU and server benchmarks, you’ve undoubtedly noticed that testing covers both single-core and multi-core performance. Here’s the difference. In terms of raw performance ...

Single-core performance refers to the best possible performance from one core in a CPU. Most games don't utilize many CPU ...

At first, we had single core CPUs. These CPUs were clocked at a certain speed and could deliver performance at that particular speed. Then came the age of CPUs with multiple cores. Here ...

Ahead of their launch, some benchmark scores have begun to trickle out, and the first scores for the eight-core Ryzen 7 9700X show the CPU might offer surprisingly strong single-core performance.

Moving on to game benchmarks, the i5-13400 and i5-12600K perform virtually identically in almost all of our tests—the i5-12600K's extra single- and multi-core speed in our CPU benchmarks doesn't ...

The Core Ultra 9 285K achieved an impressive 5,268 points in PassMark's single-threaded benchmark, putting it ahead of competing processors like the Ryzen 9 9950X and the Apple M3 Max. While the ...