AMD has augmented its Radeon Navi lineup with its first workstation card: the Radeon Pro W5700. This 8GB card shares traits with the RX 5700, but with optimizations in place, it can sometimes exceed expectations. We’re pitting AMD’s latest against NVIDIA’s Quadro RTX 4000, and a handful of others.

With so many CPUs hitting the market this month, it was time to both retest our collection of chips and update our tests. In this article, we’re going to be covering a bunch of workloads in Linux, ranging from compiling to rendering, compute to encryption. AMD’s new 16-core Ryzen 9 3950X joins ten other processors, so let’s see how it stacks up.

We’re a little late on our full-blown look at AMD’s new sixteen core Ryzen 9 3950X, thanks in part to a recent suite overhaul that’s proving to take quite a while to run on each chip. We’re going to kick our coverage off with a quicker look at both rendering and encoding performance, so far comparing it to the 3700X, 3900X, 2950X, and also Intel’s Core i9-9900K and 9900KS.

With competition in the CPU market proving to be fiercer than ever, Intel has decided to haul out some big guns. “Big guns” in this case refers to eight cores running at 5GHz a piece. This comes to us in the form of the Core i9-9900KS, and you can join us as we pit it against the rest of our collection in creator and gaming workloads.

How much performance can be had out of a super-small PC? If we base our opinions on Corsair’s ONE i164, the answer is a simple “a lot“. Coming in at 15-inches tall, this PC bundles not just Intel’s eight-core i9-9900K inside, but also NVIDIA’s top-end GeForce RTX 2080 Ti. We recently battered the i164 with an obscene amount of testing, so let’s explore our findings.

We’ve heard lots about Clear Linux being a super-fast OS, so we’ve decided to put the claim to the test. With the help of our Core i9-9980XE test platform, we’re taking a look at performance in Intel’s Clear Linux, alongside five other distros, including the new Fedora 31 beta and Ubuntu 19.10. Even with the hardware remaining identical from distro to distro, some of the results are bound to surprise you.