Following our series of CPU & GPU scaling benchmarks, it's time for a comparison between Intel's new Core i5-13400 and the tried and true AMD Ryzen 7 5700X. As of writing the Ryzen processor is a tad ...

The truly middle-of-the-road i5 might still be worth picking up When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Sitting between the cheaper, ...

While it’s true that Intel has no shortage of top-notch CPUs, there’s only one you should really be buying in 2024 for gaming purposes, and it’s well over a year old. It’s not that the other CPUs are ...

i5 and i7 are just model lines. They don’t designate generation, clock frequency, thermal design power, actual number of cores, or anything. So it’s absolutely possible for an i5 to be faster then an ...

I have been a technology journalist for 30-plus years and have covered just about every kind of computer gear—from the 386SX to 64-core processors—in my long tenure as an editor, a writer, and an ...

From the moment you decide that your current Intel processor just isn’t up to par and start investigating an upgrade to your current laptop or desktop, you’re often bombarded with technical jargon.

When AMD brought the first Ryzen processors to desktops in 2017, the chips’ secret weapon was cores. AMD couldn’t match Intel’s number of instructions-per-clock or hit the same clock speeds, but what ...

While Ryzen 5 1600X may not have clock speeds as high as the Core i5-7600K’s, it does offer additional cores and virtual cores. We’ve run a battery of benchmarks to see if those cores will make up the ...