Benchmarks
Three gaming-focused Linux operating systems beat Windows 11 in gaming benchmarks
Linux gaming performance has been improving for years, but how good is it? ComputerBase benchmarked three different Linux operating systems against Windows 11 in several gaming benchmarks and found all three were able to outperform Microsoft’s latest OS. On top of this, all three Linux variants were able to accomplish their impressive performance runs while […]
AMD Ryzen 8040HS Hawk Point CPU benchmarks show modest gains — Phoenix reborn to fight Intel Meteor Lake
AMD’s Ryzen 7040 series (Phoenix Point) just came out earlier this year. However, the chipmaker appears to already have a refresh ready in the form of the Ryzen 8040 series (Hawk Point). These won’t try to compete with the best CPUs for gaming or the best budget CPUs, at least not directly, as they’re primarily […]
HDD Benchmarks Hierarchy: Here’s how all the hard disks we’ve tested over the past couple of years ranked by performance.
Our HDD benchmarks hierarchy shows all of the high-capacity hard drives that we’ve tested over the years, ranked in order of overall sequential throughput. It’s a companion to our guide of the best hard drives, as well as the best SSDs and the SSD benchmarks hierarchy — we strongly recommend any modern PC use an […]