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By Jake Roach Published
AMD has released several benchmarks for its EPYC 'Venice' CPUs in a clear shot at Nvidia.

By Jake Roach Published
Premium Over the past two weeks, we've seen an uptick in leaks and rumors about Intel's upcoming Nova Lake CPUs. Here, we piece together what we've heard to try and establish a plausible release timeline.

By Jake Roach Published
Following rumors of a Nova Lake desktop SKU with 12 Xe3P cores, tipster Jaykihn suggests that Intel has canned the design and moved the target to next-gen Razor Lake instead.

By Kunal Khullar Published
Deals The Ryzen 7 9850X3D may only be a modest step up from the 9800X3D, but it still leads our gaming benchmarks and now comes with a couple of useful extras at a lower-than-launch price.

By Anton Shilov Published
Apple's A20 Pro smartphone SoC outperforms all smartphone processors by a wide margin and manages to leave behind latest laptop processors.

By Zhiye Liu Published
AMD has officially launched the Ryzen 5 5500F and Ryzen 5 7500 processors with six Zen 3 and Zen 4 cores, respectively.

By Mark Tyson Published
The first Apple A20 Geekbench 6 benchmark results are starting to pop up online and the single-core score is very impressive.
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