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PassMark Data Shows First-Ever Yearly Drop in CPU Performance
But last year? That's debatable. According to the makers of benchmarking software PassMark, aggregated CPU performance in 2025 is trending down for the first time in the 20 years PassMark has existed.
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Nvidia's poor RTX 50 compute test results due to missing 32-bit OpenCL support, says PassMark
PassMark reports that Nvidia has dropped 32-bit OpenCL support, rendering legacy code unusable on Blackwell (RTX 50) hardware.
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16-core Ryzen 9 9950X3D chip allegedly 14% faster than last-gen in PassMark
In controlled tests using PassMark, this chip runs on par with the regular model for single-thread tasks, but it edges out older generations when it comes to ... 16-core Ryzen 9 9950X3D chip ...