Tom's Hardware: CPUs

CPU reviews, news and features, created for the hardcore PC enthusiast by the experts at Tom's Hardware.

Microprocessors are the beating heart of your computer, and cutting edge technical advances continue to drive the technology forward. From chiplet tech and nanoprocessing to AI chips and more, Tom's Hardware is the industry standard for CPU news and reviews.

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Best Budget CPUs

You can get a surprisingly powerful processor on the cheap. We've tested several cheap budget CPUs to help you find the right one for your needs and budget.

Intel vs AMD

We wade into the endless debate: Who makes the best CPU, AMD or Intel? Here's the blow-by-blow in ten categories.

CPUs laying out.

All of today's desktop CPU benchmarks compared, including Intel's 13th-Gen Core series and AMD's Ryzen Zen 4 and Threadripper.

Several CPUs on a table.

Here is the best CPU for gaming.

AMD is getting ahead of an expected RTX Spark launch later this week with a few benchmarks for its flagship Gorgon Halo chip, the Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 495.

AMD Zen 3 Ryzen CPU

A user from the Chinese Chiphell forums shows off AMD's unreleased Ryzen 9 5900X3D, the X3D variant of the Ryzen 9 5900X.

A table rumored to hold Intel's upcoming models for Nova Lake processors as surfaced, now referring to the heavily-rumored bLLC as "BFC."

Lowest pricing

In our CPU price index, we find the lowest prices on the most popular CPUs so you don't have to.

OpenAI chose to pair rack-scale deployments of its Jalapeño ASIC with AMD EPYC Turin CPUs, not the wave of high-performance agentic chips like Arm’s AGI or Nvidia’s Vera.

Gears of War E-Day is a surprisingly heavy Unreal Engine 5 game on the CPU. We benchmarked the game with 25 processors, as well as investigated what the “low core mode” actually does.

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