Modern processors are exceedingly powerful, but you don't have to buy a flagship design to get a great chip. The best budget CPUs can hold their own and punch well above their weight in gaming.

At first glance, these CPUs are remarkably similar until you notice the Ryzen 9 7900’s ridiculously low TDP. We’re particularly impressed by this considering it does not massively differ from ...

The revamped Pentium processors tout a low thermal design power (TDP) of 15 watts making them especially well suited for use in microservers, or low-power, compact servers leveraged by smaller or ...

Both processors have a configurable TDP range from 9W to 30W. A detailed examination by David Huang on Zhulanlan demonstrated the Z1's proficiency, particularly in low-TDP gaming scenarios.

With a relatively low TDP of 120 W, it's easy to cool and a great workhorse, but it, unfortunately, has a terrible eco mode if you plan on bringing it all the way down to 65 W, being outpaced by ...

Ultra low TDP. Intel says its Core Ultra processors offer up to 5.02x superior image classification inference performance compared to the 14th Gen Core desktop processors.

Note that the F models don’t have iGPUs, the others have Intel Xe2 graphics. Also, the T models are low-TDP variants, while the K processors achieve higher clocks (there are a couple of KF ...