New benchmark shows CPUs are getting slower for the first time in history — what is going on?

In a surprise first for the ages, PassMark has revealed that the average CPU performance on desktops and laptops in 2025 has declined year-on-year. Despite new Intel Arrow Lake and AMD Fire Range ...
TweakTown

PassMark observes CPUs are slower in 2025 - and no, we don't think this is Windows 11's fault

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, ...
HotHardware

Intel Core Ultra 155H Meteor Lake CPU Specs Seemingly Confirmed In Early Benchmarks

A highly detailed Meteor Lake benchmark listing has made an appearance in PassMark's database featuring a new CPU called the Core Ultra 7 155H. The listing features unusually-detailed CPU ...

Apple's M5 Max Chip Achieves a New Record in First Benchmark Result

The first Geekbench 6 result for a 16-inch MacBook Pro with the M5 Max chip surfaced today, and Apple has achieved ...
HotHardware

AMD's 12-Core Ryzen 7 7845HX Dragon Range Mobile CPU Destroys 6900HX In Benchmark Leak

AMD’s unreleased Ryzen 7 7845HX laptop processor has appeared in PassMark’s laptop CPU performance charts. The Dragon Range processor, which mixes Zen 4 CPU cores and RDNA 2 graphics, hasn’t quietly ...
ZDNet

CPU benchmarks: Pre-release Intel Alder Lake chip beats Apple's M1 Max

The reign of Apple's M1 SoC at the top of the Geekbench speed benchmarks may soon be over with the impending arrival of Intel's 12th-generation Alder Lake mobile processors. Hardware site Wccftech ...
Ars Technica

How good is the PassMark CPUMark benchmarks?

I was browsing CPU benchmarks at cpubenchmark.net, which is run by PassMark Corporation and is based on their benchmark, CPUMark. Just wondering what others think - are their benchmarks pretty ...
Guru3D.com

Intel Xeon 696X Sample Benchmarked, Misidentified as 32-Core CPU in PassMark

An Intel Xeon 696X engineering sample has appeared in the PassMark benchmark database, but the listing raises more questions than it answers. The benchmark incorrectly identifies the processor as a 32 ...
ExtremeTech

PassMark Data Shows First-Ever Yearly Drop in CPU Performance

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 ...
Lifehacker

How Benchmarks Work and When You Should Pay Attention to Them

When you’re buying a new gadget, you want the fastest, most powerful one you can get for your money. Benchmarks can help you figure out what devices have the most power, but sometimes they’re just a ...

CPU benchmarks for M4 iPad Air show comparable scores to M4 iPad Pro

The iPad Air with M4 isn't going to have identical performance to the iPad Pro, and Geekbench scores have confirmed how that ...