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PassMark Data Shows 1st-Ever Yearly Drop in CPU Performance

PassMark Data Shows First-Ever Yearly Drop in CPU Performance

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. The company shared a graph of PassMark data on X (formerly Twitter),

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PassMark sees the first yearly drop in average CPU performance in its 20 years of benchmark results

We see the biggest drop in laptop CPU performance results. PassMark recorded an average result of 14,632 across 101,316 samples last year. But, in 2025, the average score sat at an average of 14,130 points between 25,541 samples, decreasing the average score by 3.4%.

TechSpot · 1d

PassMark records first-ever decline in CPU performance after 20 years of growth

PassMark Software has been developing well-regarded PC benchmarking and diagnostic tools since 1998. The company's website hosts a page that compiles performance scores submitted by users,

PCMag on MSN · 1d

Average CPU Performance on PCs Stalls After 20 Years of Gains

PC performance scores submitted to PassMark show what appears to be the first-ever dip in average CPU performance across two decades of benchmarks.

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Average CPU performance falls for first time in over 20 years according to PassMark

Average year-on-year CPU performance is on a downward trend in 2025 according to PassMark, but there's time left for the year to recover.

Core Ultra 9 275HX beats AMD's flagship Ryzen 9 mobile chip by 7% in PassMark — 34% faster than the i9-14900HX

The Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX handily outperforms its predecessor in PassMark, but with AMD's Fire Range inbound, the ...

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Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX CPU is the best-performing laptop processor according to new benchmarks — but Apple still beats it in this key area

The Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX CPU has shown up on PassMark, an independent benchmarking website, and it's now ranked as the ...

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CPU performance declines

For the first time since 2004, global benchmarking data from PassMark has shown a decline in average CPU performance, with laptop processors experiencing a 3.4 per cent drop year-on-year. According to ...

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Poor PC performance in 2025 leads to Windows 11 vs Windows 10 culprit speculation

PassMark has shared some interesting data which shows that there is a noticeable dip in the Windows PC performance spectrum.

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RTX 5090 Falls Behind RTX 4090 in Compute Benchmark

Benchmarks also provided a mixed picture of the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080. In most cases, the GPUs were able to achieve better ...

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