Steven Walton

In this article, we’ll take a look at how L3 cache capacity affects gaming performance. More specifically, we’ll be examining AMD’s Zen 3-based Ryzen processors in a for science type of feature.

Today’s mission is to work out how suitable the Ryzen 5600 is to use with a modern high-end GPU, such as the RTX 4080. Will the upgrade to a more powerful GPU require an entire platform upgrade?

Something we hear a lot is that CPU performance doesn’t matter for 4K gaming. Without proper context, CPU benchmark data can be misinterpreted. Let us explain to you what’s what with some hard data.

There are plenty of fast 6-core gaming CPUs that outperform relatively new 8, 10, 12, and even 16-core chips. In this article we’ll show you some interesting comparisons using different GPUs and gaming settings.

In this comprehensive shootout comparing AMD’s Ryzen 7 7800X3D and Intel’s Core i9-14900K, we explore Intel’s Extreme and Performance profiles, stability issues, and their impact on gaming performance.

Did you know that AMD’s old Zen 3 CPUs released back in 2019 are actually faster for gaming than Intel’s latest Raptor Lake architecture? It’s true, and AMD has the graphs to prove it.

How much RAM do gamers need? It’s a question we get asked a lot, and it’s one we used to answer yearly with a good old-fashioned benchmark review. Here’s our latest update.

Graphics card memory, or VRAM, has been a hot topic of discussion as of late because we’re not getting enough of it. Here’s our latest testing of GPUs and VRAM capacity at 8GB, 12GB and 16GB.

Soon we’ll see the arrival of AMD’s Zen 5-based Ryzen 9000 CPUs, but in the meantime we’ve updated all our CPU benchmark data to recap how the current Intel and AMD generations played out.

We’re updating our AMD B650 VRM thermal database for a grand total of 56 motherboards. In addition to testing new popular boards from Asrock, MSI, and Gigabyte, we can tell you which models to avoid.