From PC World: AMD loves to build to a crescendo. As it’s shown since 2016, when its first Ryzen CPUs launched, the company progresses incrementally but steadily—until Team Red sits all the way at the top.
That time has come for its 3D V-Cache processors, which sport extra L3 cache to boost gaming performance. When AMD released its first variant into the wild, that AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D shot past Intel’s best in gaming—but only gaming. Ryzen 7000X3D chips pulled more even with Team Blue, but still couldn’t pull ahead in some key benchmarks.
But now, with the release of the Ryzen 9 9950X3D, AMD can take the crown for best chip for both gaming and productivity tasks. This $699 16-core, 32-thread slots above last August’s Ryzen 9 9950X, which previously served as the company’s premier chip. Accompanying the 9950X3D onto retail shelves today is the $599 12-core, 24-thread 9900X3D.
This outcome seemed likely when the first Ryzen 9000X3D processor dropped last November, with the $479 8-core, 16-thread 9800X3D easily trouncing Intel’s best chips (both current and last gen). But now, as the benchmark numbers show, it’s confirmed.
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