AMD loves to build to a crescendo ... We’ll start with a look at how the Ryzen 9 9950X stacks up against its predecessor, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D. For productivity, our benchmarks showed improvements as ...

The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D is the best processor on the market, without question, thanks to its fantastic overall performance, ...

AMD’s older models such as the Ryzen 9 7950X3D use a slower, older architecture and feature lower frequencies due to their use of first generation 3D V-Cache. Finally, Intel has the Core i9 ...

AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 7950X3D share what appear to be similar core counts and cache configurations, though the new 9950X3D has a higher and TDP. Of course, Ryzen 9 9950X3D features AMD’s ...

That’s the same amount as in the last-generation Ryzen 9 7950X3D, but it’s still much more than you’re going to find in any non-X3D processor. Both the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X and 9950X3D have the ...

That's the audience for the new Ryzen 9 9950X3D, a 16-core, Zen 5-based, $699 monster of a processor that AMD begins selling tomorrow. If you're only worried about game performance (and if you can ...

On paper, that's the same as the Ryzen 9 7950X3D. However, the 9950X3D differs in two key areas: It includes AMD's second-generation V-cache, and it is no longer power-constrained compared to the ...

The chip also ekes out an 8% performance increase over the last-gen AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D, a nice generational improvement. AMD's CES panel also stated that 9950X3D's performance is within 1% of the ...

Several months after first being announced at CES 2025, AMD has now officially confirmed the price and release date for its Ryzen 9 9900X3D and 9950X3D processors. They're billed as the "world's best ...

Perhaps a better way of looking at it is that the 9950X3D is a 7950X3D ... AMD had to reduce either the clock speeds or the power level to prevent the chip from overheating. In the case of the ...

AMD’s new Ryzen 9 9950X3D is built on the Zen 5 architecture ... clock speed of the 9950X3D by 100Hz (compared to 2023’s 7950X3D) to squeeze out more performance, because the 3D V-Cache ...

The story of the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D is refreshingly straightforward ... with its $699 price point coming in at the same price as the 7950X3D and $100 above the 9950X. The graphics card market ...