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PC Gamer's biggest hardware stories of 2023: AI wars, quantum lies, ray tracing magic, storage matters, and more
By Nick Evanson published
2023 in hardware A journey across 12 months of news that you, our discerning readers, read the most often.
PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best CPUs of 2023
By Nick Evanson published
Gear of the year What's the best gaming CPU of the year? Here are the three nominees we've selected for that honour.
Cache is king when it comes to designing the gaming CPUs of the next 20 years
By Jacob Ridley last updated
Next steps Facing a power wall and the limit of physics, chip makers are in a constant battle to reengineer and re-evaluate ways to build a better CPU.
This is the most absurd blend of retro-futuristic looks and server grade hardware that I've ever seen, and it's all in a laptop, and I want one badly
By Nick Evanson published
news I might need a lap the size of an M-class star-freighter, though.
Intel's unified its Arc desktop and laptop GPU drivers 'on a technical basis' but manufacturer updates are still going to lag behind
By Dave James published
news Bringing its desktop and laptop Arc drivers together means everyone will benefit from every performance bump Intel's engineers can deliver.
Intel's slapped a 16GB dual-channel minimum entry requirement on Core Ultra laptops if you want top gaming performance
By Dave James published
news To get an 'Arc Graphics' sticker, your Core Ultra laptop has to be dual-channel with 16GB of memory.
Intel's new Core UItra laptops are here and beating my favourite AMD chip, in its own official benchmarks
By Dave James published
news I mean, obviously it's beating the Ryzen 7 7840U in Intel benchmarks, but it means I now can't wait to get my hands on a new Core Ultra laptop to really see what it can do.
Intel posts blatantly hypocritical marketing attack on AMD and then takes it straight down
By Jeremy Laird published
News Intel accuses AMD of selling old chips as new.
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