Passmark records the first CPU average performance drop in 20 years. The Benchmark marks a “stagnation” of CPU.
Passmark records a stagnation in CPU performance
Developers behind the tool Passamark He has published a graph showing the evolution that the performance of the processors has had through the scores of all tests that users have performed with this tool. Every year an average of all the scores obtained by the tool users are made.
The graphs show how the performance of the processors has evolved, where we notice an acceleration in the performance results from 2018 onwards, but so far this year 2025 this evolution stagnated, and even declined in the segment of portable
Passmark registered an average result of 14,632 points in 101,316 samples last year in the laptop segment. But, in 2025, the average score stood at an average of 14,130 points between 25,541 samples, with data collected until this month of February. The fall was 3.4% on average.
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The results in the PC segment were 26,436 points on average with 186,053 samples. So far this 2025, these scores were 26,311 points with 47,810 samples. This represents A 0.5%performance drop.
The report speaks as the launch of some processors generated large performance profits that raised the scores in the last two years. For example, in 2023 the AMD RYZEN THREADRIPPER PRO 7995WXa CPU as this fed the performance gain that originated that year in 58.6%. That same year the Ryzen 9 7945Hx3D For laptops, which generated an increase of 69.9% that same year. However, a more powerful CPU has not yet come out than 7995WX in the desktop segment, and in laptops performance increases have been marginal.
Everything indicates that processors launches Core Ultra 200 of Intel and Ryzen 9000 Amd have not had the great impact that was expected, for the moment. We will keep you aware of all the news.
