The takeaway: Qualcomm claims that its new Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme is the best laptop processor on the market, and early third-party benchmarks mostly supports this assertion. However, Apple ...

From the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 to the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 for Galaxy, I benchmarked all four Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 series ...

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After a 7-year corporate stint, Tanveer found his love for writing and tech too much to resist. An MBA in Marketing and the owner of a PC building business, he writes on PC hardware, technology, and ...

Following the launch of AMD's EPYC 'Venice' CPUs in July, AMD extended the performance claims for its upcoming generation of server chips on Friday. The high-level claim hasn't changed. AMD still says ...

AMD has shared new benchmarks of its 6th Gen EPYC Venice CPUs in Agentic AI workloads against the competition from Intel & NVIDIA. As the chips roll out to data centers across the globe, AMD is ...

Time for a new benchmark series. CPU and GPU scaling tests have been high on the community's wishlist for a while now – and it's time to deliver. Several comparisons are already in the pipeline, ...

The 2026 Asus ROG Zephyrus G16 finally gets a brighter OLED panel with 240 Hz and it also features a new Panther Lake processor from Intel. The result is one of the best slim gaming laptops on the ...

The AMD Athlon Gold 20 is a processor of the Mendocino series that debuted in late 2025. Designed for entry-level laptops, it features two Zen 2 cores (similar to the Ryzen 4000 series). Its CPU cores ...

Hardware enthusiasts and regular HotHardware readers will already be well aware that we're eagerly awaiting the next-generation showdown between Intel's Nova Lake processors and AMD's Zen 6-based ...

I can't fathom what AMD was thinking when it gave this CPU a bizarrely inflated $279 price tag when it first launched in 2024, but I'm very glad to see that the price has now plummeted to a much more ...