Benchmarking software developer PassMark publishes the average results of all Windows PC tests across the globe every two weeks in a line graph. In line with what many enthusiasts might expect, the ...

TL;DR: PassMark has crunched its benchmark data and observed a drop in CPU performance so far in 2025, theorizing about whether this might be down to hardware, or software issues (such as bloatware, ...

TL;DR: PassMark has been aggregating CPU performance data for nearly two decades based on collective scores recorded through its benchmarking software. For the first time in 20 years, however, the ...

TL;DR: Intel's Arrow Lake Core Ultra 3 205T, an OEM-only budget CPU with 8 cores and 15 MB L3 cache, outperforms the 10-core Ultra 5 225T in single-threaded PassMark tests but trails by 10% in ...

A new AMD Ryzen "PRO" series processor has just shown up on PassMark, but this time it's an X3D part, which we've never seen for this lineup before. Recognized as the "Ryzen 9 PRO 9965X3D," this chip ...

' PassMark PerformanceTest ' is a benchmark software that performs multiple benchmarks on five items: 'CPU,' '2D graphics,' '3F graphics,' 'memory,' and 'disk speed,' and provides detailed numerical ...

Year after year, CPUs get faster. Even a midrange chip from today's PCs can run circles around the fastest processors from a decade ago. But last year? That's debatable. According to the makers of ...

A new PassMark database entry is giving us another early look at Intel’s rumored Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus, a flagship-class Arrow Lake Refresh mobile CPU that still hasn’t been formally introduced.

'PassMark PerformanceTest ' is a benchmark software that performs multiple benchmarks for each of the five items of 'CPU', '2D graphics', '3F graphics', 'memory', and 'disk speed' to perform detailed ...

PassMark DiskCheckup is a freeware that allows the user to monitor the SMART attributes of a particular hard disk drive. S.M.A.R.T or Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology is the way a ...