AMD also recently told us that it has a new X3D driver update in the works, which it claims will reduce the latency issues seen on the 7950X3D that result from only one chip having the extra 3D V ...

With the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D just a few days away, the first price leaks are already here -- and it's not looking good.

It's not a million miles ahead of the last generation 7800X3D or 7950X3D—after all, Zen 5 wasn't a momentous change in AMD architecture. But it is much faster in professional workloads ...

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 ...

Like the 7950X3D and 7900X3D, these new X3D chips combine a pair of AMD's CPU chiplets, one that has the extra 64MB of cache stacked underneath it and one that doesn't. For the 7950X3D ...

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 ...

That lets AMD increase the base clock speed of the 9950X3D by 100Hz (compared to 2023’s 7950X3D) to squeeze out more performance, because the 3D V-Cache is less sensitive to high temperatures.

Whether it's gaming, creating, or general productivity work, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D doesn't suffer from the same hang-ups that held its predecessor, the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D, from completely ...

Nine months ago, in July 2024, AMD launched its Zen 5 CPU architecture ... Perhaps a better way of looking at it is that the 9950X3D is a 7950X3D, but with all its foibles fixed.