While AMD’s first Zen 5 CPUs disappointed everyone in gaming, the latest X3D versions have more than made up for that. The 9800X3D became the best gaming CPU last year, and now the 9950X3D greatly improves creator workloads while mostly maintaining that stellar gaming performance.

AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X is a chip that delivers on all fronts. It combines the multi-threaded grunt of the 9950X with the gaming prowess of the 9800X3D.

The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D is the best processor on the market, without question, thanks to its fantastic overall performance, nearly perfect gaming performance (with some caveats), and reasonable power draw,

The Ryzen 9 9950X3D is a powerhouse, featuring 16 cores and 32 threads, with a base clock speed of 4.3 GHz and a boost clock of

AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D is probably the best CPU you can buy if you're trying to put together a fast gaming PC, thanks to its eight Zen 5 CPU cores and extra helping of 3D V-Cache. You don't really need more CPU cores than this to play games, and most games benefit from the extra cache more than they do from a bit of extra clock speed.

The AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D already took the gaming PC world by storm. Where does the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D, with its 16 cores and 32 threads stack up?

With the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D, Team Red has completed the launch of the high-end segments within the new 9000 series processor, albeit it does seem like that older non-X3D processors might be passed over considering how good the X3D processors have been performing.

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