In AMD's Adrenalin software I made a couple of small changes to my GPU's behavior to reach the advertised boost clock.

For years, clock speed ruled the roost. It was the one metric you could point to, devoid of context, to say one component was "faster" than another. It's literally right there in the name. Clock speed ...

Two new AMD Ryzen X3D gaming CPUs are reportedly coming soon, with much higher clock speeds than the Ryzen 7 9800X3D, which launched earlier this year. According to many rumors, the 16-core AMD Ryzen ...

Believe it or not, you can make AMD's latest king of the gaming CPU world even faster, and it won't even cost you any money. In this guide, we'll show you how to overclock the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, ...

For the better part of two decades, the war for PC dominance was simple. It was a brutal, head-to-head arms race fought on a single front: clock speed. From the days of the Pentium 4 and the Athlon XP ...

Fire up the 2013 remix of the Eagles "Desperado". Listen to the beat: That's 60 beats per minute, or to an engineer, 1 Hertz (Hz). Lady Gaga's "Just Dance" is around twice that. It sounds fast, but ...

Qualcomm‘s upcoming Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 processor might be packing a bigger punch than initially anticipated. A new leak suggests the chip could reach clock speeds exceeding the previously confirmed ...

MediaTek launched the Dimensity 9400 in October as its latest flagship SoC for smartphones. The hardware platform shows how far MediaTek has come in the past few years, making it a strong competitor ...

James Ratcliff joined Game Rant in 2022 as a Gaming News Writer. In 2023, James was offered a chance to become an occasional feature writer for different games and then a Senior Author in 2025. He is ...