A week into testing Intel’s new Core Ultra X9, the numbers are in. The CPU performance is steady, and the Arc integrated ...
PCWorld’s testing reveals Intel’s new Panther Lake processors with Arc integrated graphics are significantly closing the performance gap with discrete GPUs in laptops. Arc iGPUs with up to 12 Xe3 ...
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Our desktop benchmark testing focuses on three roughly divided aspects of performance: general productivity, content creation, and graphics rendering. We also add specific tests to measure the ...
TL;DR: Intel's Xe2 graphics architecture has been integrated into its Lunar Lake Core Ultra 200V mobile chips, and the company is already testing next-gen Xe3 in upcoming Panther Lake chips. Although ...
Formula 1 unveiled a refreshed graphics package for the 2025 season, but not everyone is pleased with the changes. Fans watching pre-season testing in Bahrain have given mixed reviews on the ...
Even with that lower price tag, you can still get an extremely good gaming experience, provided you temper your expectations a bit. While the RTX 5060 Ti, for instance, isn't exactly a 4K gaming card, ...
The AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT brings ray tracing and affordable GPUs to the masses, but doing so requires some unorthodox tweaks that can affect performance. If it stays in stock near MSRP and you stick ...
Intel’s Core Ultra Series 3 chips (code-named “Panther Lake”) were one of the stars of CES 2026, promising efficient processing and, most notably, markedly improved graphics performance. (Indeed, we ...