If you're building your own computer, things can quickly get complicated. Here's what CPU or processor cores are and how many your CPU should have.

CPU speeds are measured in GHz, but they don't tell the full story of a processor's performance, multi-tasking capability, and other computing features.

When users go out shopping for their next desktop processor to play games, the L3 cache is usually not at the top of the priority list. What usually takes precedence is the number of cores, the ...

The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X desktop CPU is the top-of-the-line offering in the latest Ryzen 9000 series of processors. It comes with 16 cores, 32 threads, and a boost clock speed of 5.7 GHz. The CPU has ...

Core i5 9600 has six cores, six threads. So if FineReader does indeed scale well with more threads, it might be better to find a comparable processor with two threads per core.

Intel's new Core i9-14900K is the fastest desktop CPU from Team Blue, but is it worth upgrading from the Core i9-13900K? We break down the differences.

Some workloads are a single tangled-up thread with various data types and crunchy compute; for these, our modern CPU cores are perfectly-suited. Other workloads (like, say, graphics) are giant ...