Tom's Hardware is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .Our CPU benchmarks performance hierarchy ranks current and previous-gen Intel and AMD processors based on performance, including all of the . Below the CPU ranking charts and tables, this guide also gives you a basic introduction to CPU benchmarking and includes a list of commonly-used CPU benchmark utilities.Your CPU greatly affects overall performance and, to many, is a computer's most important component. CPU benchmarks comparisons help us sort out the...…Tom's Hardware is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .Our CPU benchmarks performance hierarchy ranks current and previous-gen Intel and AMD processors based on performance, including all of the . Below the CPU ranking charts and tables, this guide also gives you a basic introduction to CPU benchmarking and includes a list of commonly-used CPU benchmark utilities.Your CPU greatly affects overall performance and, to many, is a computer's most important component. CPU benchmarks comparisons help us sort out the...WW…

Tom's Hardware is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .According to comments from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang during a conference call yesterday, we could see Nvidia-branded CPUs in the future, setting the stage for a new level of competition with Intel and AMD.  sent shockwaves through the semiconductor market, and many questions remain about how the two companies can merge their portfolios without alienating or competing with current ARM licensees - particularly when it comes to building CPUs. There's been plenty of...…Tom's Hardware is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .According to comments from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang during a conference call yesterday, we could see Nvidia-branded CPUs in the future, setting the stage for a new level of competition with Intel and AMD.  sent shockwaves through the semiconductor market, and many questions remain about how the two companies can merge their portfolios without alienating or competing with current ARM licensees - particularly when it comes to building CPUs. There's been plenty of...WW…

Tom's Hardware is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .AMD's Cinderella story continued today with a report from Mercury Research, one of the chip industry's premier market analyst firms, that indicates AMD had reached 18.3% of the overall x86 share and 19.7% of the client market. That's the company's highest share since the fourth quarter of 2013 and the first quarter of 2012, respectively. The company also broke its all-time record for notebook market share. We have the full breakdown below, including the company's...…Tom's Hardware is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .AMD's Cinderella story continued today with a report from Mercury Research, one of the chip industry's premier market analyst firms, that indicates AMD had reached 18.3% of the overall x86 share and 19.7% of the client market. That's the company's highest share since the fourth quarter of 2013 and the first quarter of 2012, respectively. The company also broke its all-time record for notebook market share. We have the full breakdown below, including the company's...WW…

Tom's Hardware is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .Till Kottmann, a Swiss IT consultant, posted on Twitter a link to a file sharing service today that contains what an anonymous source claims is a portion of Intel's crown jewels: A 20GB folder of confidential Intel intellectual property. The leaker dubbed the release the "Intel exconfidential Lake Platform Release ;)." Update: Intel has responded to Tom's Hardware with an official statement:"We are investigating this situation. The information appears to come...…Tom's Hardware is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .Till Kottmann, a Swiss IT consultant, posted on Twitter a link to a file sharing service today that contains what an anonymous source claims is a portion of Intel's crown jewels: A 20GB folder of confidential Intel intellectual property. The leaker dubbed the release the "Intel exconfidential Lake Platform Release ;)." Update: Intel has responded to Tom's Hardware with an official statement:"We are investigating this situation. The information appears to come...WW…

Tom's Hardware is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .Intel announced today in its Q2 2020 earnings release that it has now delayed the rollout of its 7nm CPUs by six months relative to its previously-planned release date, undoubtedly resulting in wide-ranging delays to the company's roadmaps that could cause the company to lose ranks in our Hierarchy. Intel's press release also says that yields for its 7nm process are now twelve months behind the company's internal targets, meaning the company isn't currently on...…Tom's Hardware is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .Intel announced today in its Q2 2020 earnings release that it has now delayed the rollout of its 7nm CPUs by six months relative to its previously-planned release date, undoubtedly resulting in wide-ranging delays to the company's roadmaps that could cause the company to lose ranks in our Hierarchy. Intel's press release also says that yields for its 7nm process are now twelve months behind the company's internal targets, meaning the company isn't currently on...WW…

Tom's Hardware is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .Propelled by average enthusiasts in their shared quest to defeat COVID-19, the Folding@Home network is now pushing out 470 PetaFLOPS of raw compute power. To put that in perspective, that's twice as fast as Summit, the world's fastest supercomputer, making the network faster than any known supercomputer. It's also faster than the top seven supercomputers in the world, combined. It's impressive that the Folding@Home network is now more than twice as powerful as...…Tom's Hardware is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .Propelled by average enthusiasts in their shared quest to defeat COVID-19, the Folding@Home network is now pushing out 470 PetaFLOPS of raw compute power. To put that in perspective, that's twice as fast as Summit, the world's fastest supercomputer, making the network faster than any known supercomputer. It's also faster than the top seven supercomputers in the world, combined. It's impressive that the Folding@Home network is now more than twice as powerful as...WW…