Demand for our 20G Loopback Plug has blown past expectations. If you've been thinking about picking one up, now's the time. Our first run is almost gone, and there may be a gap in stock before the next batch arrives. passmark.com/products/usb20g…

OSFMount V3.3 has been released. We rebuilt the RAM Drive's physical disk emulation driver for a big speed boost: 14% faster random reads and up to 2x faster sequential writes. Get it here: osforensics.com/tools/mount-…

Want to see the new PassMark USB-C 20G Loopback Plug in action? Check out our latest video for a quick rundown: youtu.be/nqBEAqIGRgI

Introducing the USB-C 20G Loopback Plugs! Validate USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 ports with 20Gb/s testing performance. Compact, reliable, and built for production testing, diagnostics, and high-speed port verification. For more information or to order visit: passmark.com/products/usb20g…

Version V11.7 of MemTest86 was released today. With support for the LPCAMM2 RAM form factor, including detecting which chip is bad. Plus a bunch of other minor bug fixes and improvements. memtest86.com/whats-new.html

Introducing the USB-C Short Circuit Tester! Compact, practical, and delivers rapid testing of port voltages and short circuits— under 1 second per port — perfect for fast production line checks. For more information or to order visit: passmark.com/products/usb-sh…

Pulling apart USB Type-C cables today trying to work out why some models have errors at 20Gb and some don't. We suspect the (lack of) twist in the data lines near the termination give this one occasional errors.

Windows 10 gains 1% market share back off Window 11 pcbenchmarks.net/os-marketsh…

New version of Memtest86 was released today. Version 11.6 memtest86.com/whats-new.html Significant changes include support for new CPUs models, ECC reporting improvements, support for new RUST based UEFI coming from Microsoft and an option to treat corrected ECC errors as a failure.

Some comments on the Ryzen 7 9700X3D CPU briefly listed on our site. For now this CPU doesn't exist and it might never exist. Our benchmarks are mostly community sourced, an average of real world performance for millions of machines. From time to time we see people trying to fake results. Sometimes for commercial gain (e.g. to win a tender, or dump on the competition), sometimes for bragging rights, media attention, for entertainment, by accident or for re-badging & selling fake parts. This has been going on for decades & isn't new. We are only a small company with limited resources, but we try and keep the public results as clean as possible. There is some automated checking and we also manually clean up the mess when required. But none the less, only around 0.1% of submissions need deletion. So generally it isn't a huge problem. It seems some media companies have setup automated scraping of our web site. So any new CPU listing gets picked up within minutes (often before we have even seen it ourselves). Any new CPU listing on our site are automatically flagged with a "high margin for error" warning until a large number of samples are received. This was the case for the 9700X3D. But this seems to be somewhat ignored in the rush to get an exclusive story. In the case of the AMD 9700X3D, the CPU was not listed on the AMD web site. So that should be suspicious, even though sometimes we do get custom or pre-production CPUs appearing. So it isn't conclusive. People also created fake photos of the non-existent CPU, which of course doesn't help when trying to determine if it is real or not. I should also state that no one in any of the media companies contacted us before or after running with the story. We would have checked the situation had someone asked us about it, but no one did. In this case the fake benchmark was done on Linux, which because of it's open source nature makes faking some details easier (compared to Windows, locked down Android & iPhones). Having said that we should also be doing a better job of validating the CPU hardware details on Linux (we'll be doing that this coming week). We had already started on overhauling the Linux release a few months ago to bring it up to the same level as the Windows release for the future V12 release of the benchmark. Ultimately some low level amount of faking & manipulation will likely continue however, as software can always emulate hardware (like in a Virtual machine (VM)). So be suspicious of new results with low submission counts. Especially if the part is new and isn't listed on the vendor's web site. We also appreciate when those in the community get into contact, letting us know when we have stuffed up, as it helps gets things corrected faster (again we are only a very small team). Was also nice of the reddit user (/A_Canadian_boi) to also come clean about their fake. Making the detection easy in this case. 9700X3D RIP

Apple's new M5 CPU appeared in the CPU benchmark charts today. Early results show extraordinarily good single threaded results and reasonable multi-threaded. cpubenchmark.net/single-thre… cpubenchmark.net/multithread…

Most popular games, game launchers and anti-cheat software. Counter-Strike is still hugely popular

This is a pretty incredible single threaded benchmark result from Apple with the A19. Plus it is claimed to use only 12watts. For comparison the Ultra 9 is 125W+ and EPYC 4585PX is 170W+ cpubenchmark.net/single-thre…

MemTest86 V11.5 released today. Details here memtest86.com/whats-new.html - New config option to check SMBIOS memory devices for correct values - Compatibility with Rust based UEFI. (Rust being a more secure, but maybe slower, version of the C based UEFI) - A couple of bug fixes.

Intel, AMD and Apple have all released "Ultra" "Core" CPUs. Where does the naming go from here?