Earlier this week, Apple unveiled three new products with the M5 chip, built on the third generation 3nm process. While it’s only in one Mac at the moment – the 14-inch MacBook Pro – early benchmark results look incredibly promising. It’s worth noting that this is only the baseline M5 chip. There’s no M5 Pro, Max, or Ultra chip yet. …
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While the A19 Pro is the star of the show, Apple also released a standard A19 for the vanilla iPhone 17. The A19 Pro is a known quantity at this point but how does the regular A19 compare? Rather interestingly, the A19 Pro consistently outperforms the A19 on CPU benchmarks despite seemingly having the same CPU core configuration and clock …
Read More »Microsoft is preparing to ship Windows 11 25H2 as their newest incremental update to their operating system. Windows 11 25H2 is currently available via their preview channel in advance of the formal public release in October. With Canonical also putting the finishing touches on their Ubuntu 25.10 release also due for a stable release in October, here are some benchmarks …
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Bloober Team has now lifted the review embargo for its new third-person survival horror game, Cronos: The New Dawn. The game runs on Unreal Engine 5 and supports both Ray Tracing and DLSS 4. As such, we decided to test those features first before doing our full PC performance review. For these Ray Tracing and DLSS 4 benchmarks, I used …
Read More »Intel announced the Arc Pro B-Series back at Computex consisting of the Arc Pro B50 and Arc Pro B60 graphics cards. Marking availability today and the review embargo lift is for the Arc Pro B50 for workstations, which provides 16GB of RAM, 70 Watt total board power, and a $349 USD launch price for this workstation graphics card. Here are …
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Conan Gray, who’s worked his way up from the YouTube content mines to become a pop star in his own right, enters this week’s chart at No. 3 with his album Wishbone. Katja Ogrin/Redferns/Redferns hide caption toggle caption Katja Ogrin/Redferns/Redferns This week, Morgan Wallen‘s I’m the Problem sits at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart yet again. But …
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Read More »Ahead of the Threadripper 9000 series hitting store shelves tomorrow, today the review embargo lifts on these new high-end desktop/workstation Zen 5 processors. I have been testing out the Threadripper 9970X and 9980X this month and have been extremely excited about the generational uplift and all-around performance of these new AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9970X/9980X processors on Linux for delivering the …
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China has introduced its first 6nm gaming and AI GPUs, the Lisuan Tech 7G106 & 7G105, with up to 24 GB memory, and faster than RTX 4060 performance. China Makes Big Gains In The Gaming & AI GPU Segment With Lisuan Tech’s G100 Chip, Powering the 7G106 12 GB & 7G105 24 GB Graphics Cards A few days ago, we …
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