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, ...

The Ryzen 9 9950X3D maintains the high boost clocks ... to allow higher clocks and lower temperatures. Credit: AMD Where previously, the 7950X3D had one of its eight-core chiplets running at ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...