CPUs Reviews

Some good, some not so good.

We tested AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X in a battery of gaming and productivity benchmarks to compare it to competing Intel processors.

We tested AMD's Ryzen 5 9600X in a battery of gaming and productivity benchmarks to see how it compares to competing Intel processors.

We put AMD's Ryzen 7 5700X3D through a battery of gaming and productivity benchmarks to see how it fares against competing Intel processors.

We put Intel's Core i5-14400 through a battery of gaming and productivity benchmarks to see how it fares against competing AMD Ryzen processors.

We put AMD's new $229 Ryzen 5 8600G "Phoenix" chip through our test suite to see how it ranks against the Intel competition and its own pricier sibling, the Ryzen 7 8700G.

We put AMD's new $329 Ryzen 7 8700G and $229 Ryzen 5 8600G "Phoenix" chips through our test suite to see how they rank against the Intel competition.

We put Intel’s fifth-gen Emerald Rapids Xeon Platinum 8592+ through the benchmark paces against AMD's EPYC Genoa to see which server chips come out the winner.

AMD's Threadripper Pro 3995WX barrels into the workstation market with 64 cores, 128 threads, eight memory channels, and class-leading performance.

We put the AMD Ryzen 5 5600XD through our expansive test suite and found it to be the best value for budget gaming processors, but it is only available at Micro Center for a limited time.