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AMD's flagship Ryzen 9 9950X3D processor is already attracting attention from the community. One Redditor recently shared their experience of successfully removing the Integrated Heat Spreader (IHS) from their 9950X3D with unconventional tools, leading to impressive overclocking results. A report was made by a Redditor, showing a "delidding" of a Ryzen 9 9950X3D, the process of removing the CPU's Integrated Heat Spreader or the metal lid (IHS) on top of the CPU die. This allows the user to replace the thermal interface material (TIM) underneath, which was factory-installed, with a better-performing one, most typically liquid metal, for far superior heat transfer. The Redditor described taking an extremely unusual method. Instead of using commercially available delidding kits, they said that they used a clothes iron to heat and soften the adhesive and then used fishing string to slice through the softened adhesive and detach the IHS from the CPU package. After the successful removal of the IHS, liquid metal was applied directly onto the CPU dies as the new thermal interface material before reapplying the cooling solution in a "direct die" configuration. The user, who was described as liquid metal and water-cooling seasoned, said the altered CPU could overclock to nearly 6 GHz and operated at 72-73°C when it underwent a Furmark CPU stress test. The rest of the system was built with of high-end parts that included an RTX 5090 graphics card and the MSI MEG X870E Godlike motherboard. AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D occupies the top spot in the lineup of AM5 socket processors since it costs $699. However, delidding procedures, though dangerous and warranty-voiding, illustrate the extent to which users will go to drive such hardware to its very limits. If you want a more conventional round up of AMD's top chip, you can check out our review of it right here. Sources: Reddit via VideoCardz Source Hope you enjoyed this news post. Thank you for appreciating my time and effort posting news every day for many years. News posts... 2023: 5,800+ | 2024: 5,700+ | 2025 (till end of March): 1,357 RIP Matrix | Farewell my friend

AMD earlier this week released the Ryzen 9 9950X3D, its flagship X3D SKU, touting it as the best all-rounder CPU for gaming and productivity. We tested the chip and found ourselves agreeing thus rating it a 9 out of 10 for its solid overall performance. Alongside the launch, the company also discussed new features in its latest chipset driver package including one which makes it unnecessary to reinstall Windows after changing CPUs. Besides that, the driver also fixes a VBS issue on Windows 10. Speaking of which, the VBS setting was one of the main highlighted points in our reviewer's guide. AMD asked us to test with the VBS setting enabled as this was in accordance with Microsoft's own guidance. It said: To be clear, the testing OS AMD asked for was Windows 11 version 23H2 or 24H2 and VBS is not enabled by default nor recommended to be kept enabled on Windows 10. However, the feature is a known performance hog and in a new test, it was seen that both the Ryzen 9 9950X3D as well as the previously released Ryzen 7 9800X3D are worse off in Windows 11. For those unfamiliar, VBS or Virutalization-based Security, also called Core Isolation, is a Windows security feature and uses Windows hypervisor and hardware-based virtualization to create an isolated environment to protect from potentially malicious code that can harm the kernel. Security is also the reason why Microsoft recommends users update to Windows 11 from 10 via a clean install. The testing was conducted by the YouTube channel Tech YES City and it found that Microsoft's recommended setting was not the most optimal for gaming at all. In Fortnite for example, there is an 18% performance advantage on Windows 10 vs Windows 11 (VBS). What's perhaps even more interesting is that Windows 10 still has the edge even when VBS was disabled on Windows 11. Although the gap had reduced, it was still a substantial ~9.25% in favor of Windows 10. A similar trend was observed in Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 as well, among other games, although not to the same degree as in Fortnite. Neowin too had tested Windows 10 vs 11 performance back in 2023 both for in-place upgrade and clean installation, and found back-and-forth advantages between the two. We plan to revisit the topic soon and do some Ryzen CPU testing this time. Last time, we had used Intel's i9-14900K. Source and images: Tech YES City (YouTube) Source Hope you enjoyed this news post. Thank you for appreciating my time and effort posting news every day for many years. News posts... 2023: 5,800+ | 2024: 5,700+ | 2025 (till end of February): 874 RIP Matrix | Farewell my friend

Gamers Nexus (2.42M subscribers) March 11, 2025 Video length: 29m 06s AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D CPU launches on March 12, 2025 with an MSRP of $700, accompanied by the 9900X3D at $600 MSRP. We're reviewing and benchmarking the AMD 9950X3D CPU vs. alternatives, like the 9800X3D, Intel 285K (lol), 14900K, and base 9950X. Testing includes benchmarks in gaming and production, such as file compression, decompression, Blender CPU rendering, Adobe Premiere, and more. We also look briefly at power consumption and efficiency of the 9950X3D Zen 5 CPU for AM5 boards. Our team has prepared a number of videos to go up over the next few weeks, but we're taking a production break now that we're through all the major component reviews for the past few weeks, so we'll likely skip the 9900X3D review (but may add it to charts at some point). 00:00 - AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D CPU Review 03:25 - AMD R9 9950X3D CPU Specs vs 9950X 05:49 - Testing Basics and Expectations 07:57 - Frequency Validation: Blender All-Core 09:00 - Frequency Validation: Cinebench 1T 09:29 - Baldur's Gate 3 CPU Benchmarks 11:00 - Stellaris Simulation Time Benchmark 12:07 - Dragon's Dogma 2 Best CPUs 13:35 - FFXIV Dawntrail 9950X3D vs 9800X3D 15:08 - FFXIV 1440p Benchmarks 15:48 - Starfield CPU Comparison 2025 16:55 - Cyberpunk Phantom Liberty CPU Benchmarks 17:36 - F1 24 1080p 18:14 - F1 24 1440p 18:34 - Blender CPU Rendering Benchmarks 20:00 - Chromium Code Compile Test 20:47 - File Compression Benchmarks 21:41 - File Decompression 2025 CPU Benchmarks 22:13 - Adobe Premiere CPU Comparison 23:00 - Power and Efficiency: Starfield 24:01 - Power and Efficiency: 7-Zip Compression 24:52 - Power and Efficiency: 7-Zip Decompression 25:10 - Conclusion Source Hope you enjoyed this news post. Thank you for appreciating my time and effort posting news every day for many years. News posts... 2023: 5,800+ | 2024: 5,700+ | 2025 (till end of February): 874 RIP Matrix | Farewell my friend

Hot on the heels of the AMD Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT graphics cards' release and review of the latter earlier this month, AMD is back with another new bit of hardware, this time the 9950X3D desktop CPU, which is a follow-up and successor to the 7950X3D. With that out of the way, now the disclosure: AMD lets us keep the hardware they provided for the review, but this does not influence our findings. Sayan Sen contributed to this review, and also provided the benchmark graphics. For our benchmarks, we used six self-bought games, or where possible, trials with access to the benchmark. They are: Final Fantasy XV Assassin's Creed Odyssey Shadow of the Tomb Raider Cyberpunk 2077 Hitman 3 Far Cry 6 We mainly focused on games that are fairly CPU-heavy, spanning across various engines. hwinfo.com provided a commercial license of HWiNFO, and UL Solutions provided us with Professional (commercial use) licenses for 3DMark, and Procyon. We also used 7-Zip and Cinebench 2024. Introduction The Zen 5 family of desktop processors, under which the 9950X3D falls, started releasing last July, and are based on the same AM5 socket design of the 7000 series Zen 4 generation. They support DDR5 memory using the A620, B650(E)/X670(E), or B850(E)/X870(E) chipsets. The 9950X3D, which AMD says is a "Gaming and Content Creation Processor" and sits right at the top end of the Zen 5 launch, is officially releasing today, and will go on sale tomorrow, March 12 at retailers. Below are the specs of both the 9950X3D and 7950X3D, on which our comparison will be based: AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D (Zen 5) 7950X3D (Zen 4) Cores/Threads 16/32 Max Boost Up to 5.7 GHz Base Clock` 4.3 GHz 4.2 GHz L2 Cache 16 MB L3 Cache 128 MB TDP / cTDP 170 W 120 W Default Socket Power 200 W 162 W Max Current (EDC) 225 A 180 A Max Current Thermally Limited (TDC) 160 A 120 A Tjmax 95 C 89 C Processor Graphics AMD Radeon Graphics 2 Cores @ 2000MHz Boost Algorithm Precision Boost 2 Recommended Cooler 240 - 280 mm liquid (or equivelent) Max Memory Speed DDR5-5600 DDR5-5200 Max Memory capacity 192 GB 128 GB Price (MSRP/SEP) $699 Although on paper there does not seem to be a significant difference between the old and new in the above table, this is because most of the changes are actually architectural. For example, the 2nd generation AMD 3D V-Cache Technology, which is included on the 9950X3D is reversed, meaning the 3D V-Cache layer is now placed under the processor cores, which results in cooling solutions having an almost direct contact to the hottest part of the CPU. The higher socket power also results in longer boosts, and there's even support for higher clocked DDR5 memory. Building the beast Test system Computer ATX Open Motherboard Rack AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D Gigabyte X870E AORUS MASTER (BIOS N10) be quiet! Pure Power 12 M 850W Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120 CPU Air Cooler Thermal Grizzly Carbonaut (38x38x0,2mm) 2x 16GB G.SKILL Trident Z5 Neo RGB Series DDR5 6000MT/s CL28-36-36-96 Samsung 990 Pro 1TB (PCIe Gen4) NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition Windows 11 Pro Build 26100.3194 dGPU driver: Nvidia driver 572.47 Adrenaline Edition: 24.12.1 Reference System Lian Li 011 Dynamic EVO AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D ASRock X670E Steel Legend (BIOS v3.16) Corsair RM1000x Shift 1000W NZXT Kraken Elite 360 RGB 2x 32GB Kingston Fury Beast RGB DDR5 6000MT/s CL36-38-38-80 T-Force Z540 2TB (PCIe Gen5) NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition Windows 11 Pro Build 26100.3194 dGPU driver: Nvidia driver 572.47 Adrenaline Edition: 24.12.1 As an Amazon Associate when you purchase through links on our site, we earn from qualifying purchases. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. We initially planned on using the same memory kit (DDR5-6000 CL36) on both platforms to keep it equal but decided against it since using higher latency memory on the 9950X3D would be artificially hamstringing its performance by not taking advantage of the memory-specific optimizations in the new architecture. We did try the AMD-supplied DDR5-6000 CL28 on our Ryzen 7950X3D but it was not fully stable, with it going into memory training time and time again, so we dropped that idea. By the way, a single self-purchased 5090 FE was used between both systems, (I do not have two of these cards!) this was to see how the CPUs complimented the same dGPU in some of the benchmarks. Game Mode was also enabled in Windows 11, this was also requested of AMD in our reviewers guide. The test hardware was open plan, and our BIOS version was N10, which was supplied by AMD itself, as this version is not on the official Gigabyte support web page. AMD also suggested we use Adrenaline Edition 24.12.1 which we did so we could verify their scores against ours. Resizeable BAR was enabled (default BIOS setting) as was MultiCore Enhancement (MCE), which was on Auto by default, showing it as "Enabled". On a similar note, Precision Boost Overdrive (PBO) was set to "Advanced" on our AMD system, which is also the default setting. Essentially, we ran everything on the default settings since that was the idea, as the average user won't go into BIOS immediately to play around with the settings. I resisted using thermal paste again because of the mess, but also because I have had great temperatures and results with Thermal Grizzly's Carbonaut thermal pad with my i7-14700K test system. It really, really works! The highest temperature we recorded with our 9950X3D in our tests was 83.4C in Cinebench 2024, compared to 85.2C with the 7950X3D which uses thermal paste (installed in the summer of 2023). When handling any of the hardware, I always used an anti-static band. I even ordered a cable that let me power on, reset, and see the status of HDD and Power LEDs, so I didn't have to use a screwdriver on the pins. Benchmarks The following benchmarks were done with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition in the system. We start with 3DMark's Fire Strike Ultra which is a DirectX 11 synthetic gaming test. As you can see in the chart below, aside from the default physics test, we also used custom settings and measured the CPU performances. We turned the resolution down from the default (4K) to 720p to minimize the GPU workload since we are trying to tax the CPUs' and not the GPU. This is generally the simplest way to do it as we have discussed earlier. AMD's new 9950X3D is around 19% faster than the 7950X3D in the physics tests. We must say that we are impressed with how well UL has designed the physics test since there is hardly anything to separate the 4K and the 720p results. We definitely expected a small yet significant difference between the resolutions considering how much less GPU-heavy 720p is compared to 4K but that's not the case. The 720p graphics test is certainly revealing. In this, we see that the new 9950X3D is 15% faster than the 7950X3D. At default(4L) settings, this graphics test would be tied as then the 5090 would be tested. Following that, we have Time Spy Extreme which is a DirectX 12 4K synthetic test. We run a similar test scenario here. The gap between the two chips closes down here. In the physics tests, the new Ryzen 9 9950X3D comes out about 16% faster than its predecessor, and in the 720p graphics test, it is 12% better. Moving on to the more modern 3DMark DirectX 12 tests, we have Steel Nomad and Steel Nomad Lite. Interestingly, on the Steel Nomad 720p graphics test, the performance differential was exactly the same as we found on 720p Time Spy Extreme graphics, the 9950X3D was 12% better than the 7950X3D. Meanwhile, on Steel Nomad Lite, the gap between the two 16-core X3D CPUs was 15.5%. Unlike Time Spy and Fire Strike, Steel Nomad does not have any standalone physics tests, and thus we relied on low-resolution graphics tests. After looking at the rasterization performances, we next look at Speed Way which tests ray tracing. Even though ray tracing is stressful for the CPU, it is still the GPU that does most of the heavy lifting, as we see a rather insignificant 2.1% improvement with the 9950X3D even at 720p. Finally, we have the 3DMark CPU profile test which sees how well a CPU scales across cores and threads. At its best, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D shows up to 32% better performance but generally, the advantage is around 22% over the 7950X3D. Due to how the AMD chipset driver handles the CCDs (Core Compute Die) in gaming-like workloads like this test, it does not scale at all above 16 threads. Following synthetics, we move on to real-world games. 2016's Final Fantasy XV, based on Luminous Engine, is the oldest game in our suite. Here, we saw almost identical performance between the two CPUs. Up next, we have Assassin's Creed Odyssey based on AnvilNext 2.0. This is from 2018 and the 9950X3D was 7% and 7.5% better in averages and minimums, respectively. 2018's Shadow of the Tomb Raider, built on the Foundation Engine, showed close to a 14.5% uplift over the 9950X3D in the averages. The 95% lows were 17% better on the new X3D. Please note that here, we dropped down to 720p as we observed near 100% utilization of the gaming CCD (the one with the 3D V-cache) even at 1080p and wanted to see how the game would behave if we further increased the load on the processor. On Cyberpunk 2077 that's based on the Red engine, the Ryzen 9950X3D was 11% better than in average framerates and 12.75% better on the minimums. 2021's Hitman 3 based on the Glacier 2 engine was 9.3% ahead on the 9950X3D vs the 7950X3D, which is substantial and not totally insignificant. Finally, we come to Far Cry 6 which saw the biggest gain in our entire suite. The average FPS on the new 9950X3D was 45% better than on the 7950X3D. The minimum FPS differential was even higher at 51.2%. Far Cry 6 is based on the Dunia engine and is known to be quite single-thread bound. What this tells us is that other single-thread heavy games, the likes of Counter-Strike 2, will probably also see big improvements on 9950X3D. This was also one of the titles in AMD's new Application Compatibility Database which is meant to boost the X3D performance on certain games. In most of our gaming results, we exceeded what AMD had suggested in the review guide and that was because we used different settings that were even more CPU-focused. Wrapping up our game testing, we move to productivity. First up we have UL Procyon Office Productivity benchmark. Despite being around 23 to 26% faster than the 7950X3D in Word, Excel, and Outlook, the overall score was only 9% better on the 9950X3D. That is because we saw a very substantial 18% regression in PowerPoint output on our test. This does not match AMD's guidance as it did not see a performance loss on its newer chip. On Cinebench 2024, the 16-core Zen 5 9950X3D part is 24% faster. This is a rendering test and thus stresses all available threads. Next up, we tested a couple of AI workloads starting with Procyon's Computer Vision. For those wondering, computer vision is the ability of machines to extract and analyze information from images or videos. We saw a massive 51% boost in the Computer Vision test. It looks like Zen 5's AI-specific optimizations and improvements are paying off. Next up, in text generation, we saw anywhere between 2.6% to 20% improvement on the Ryzen 9 9950X3D. Last but not least, we also benchmarked 7-Zip compression and decompression, which measures in GIPS (billion instructions per second). The 9950X3D was 10% better in decompression and 14% better in compression. With all the game and productivity app results out of our way, we now turn our attention to power efficiency and value. For power efficiency, we only measure gaming efficiency as the X3D chips are advertised first and foremost for gaming. The new 9950X3D is a mixed bag here with it showing excellent performance-per-watt (for wattage we considered the CPU package power) in titles like Far Cry 6 with a 57% advantage. However, there is more than one instance where it loses too. In Final Fantasy XV, for example, it was 23.3% behind the 7950X3D and in Cyberpunk 2077, that gap is 22%. Although we did not individually measure efficiency figures in productivity tasks, it is noteworthy that the 9950X3D recorded its highest power usage in Cinebench 2024 as it consumed an average of ~182 watts with a peak of 200 watts. The 7950X3D, meanwhile, was much more efficient with an average draw of ~131 watts and a maximum of ~139.5. Credit where it's due, the new 9950X3D, despite guzzling down more power, manages to outdo the 7950X3D in the cooling department as it peaked at 83.4 C compared to 85.2 on the 7950X3D, in spite of the 9950X3D using a slightly worse (air) cooling solution versus liquid with the 7950X3D.The effect of the new 3D V-cache arrangement is evident here. Moving on, after a mediocre showing in gaming power efficiency, we check out if the value prospect on the X3D chip fares better, and it certainly does, although, not by a massive margin. Again, Far Cry 6 put on the best showing here with a 45% better score. In most of the other games, it was around 10 to 15%. Following gaming, we also test the value of the chips in productivity tasks. Computer Vision with a 51% performance-per-dollar uplift was the most impressive. This is a phenomenal performance gain and if you are someone looking at such tasks, then the 9950X3D will absolutely be worth the upgrade. Other workloads saw less than 30% gains and typically around 20%. The PowerPoint number stands out as a failure. Conclusion AMD thoroughly impressed us with its RX 9070 XT graphics so much so that we gave it a 10 out of 10. That is not quite the case with the 9950X3D, though that's not to say that it's a bad part and you shouldn't buy it. However, you aren't looking at any massive performance uplift here gen-on-gen outside of scenarios like single-threaded games and certain AI applications. So a jump from a 7950X3D to a 9950X3D might be a bit of an (expensive) stretch for most. However, if you are on a lower-core count part and are in need of more cores, the 9950X3D should serve you very well. At the end of the day, this is still one of the fastest CPUs money can buy and it is still on AM5. So, as a Ryzen 7000/9000 series CPU owner, you can simply jump on it with a firmware update (assuming your motherboard VRM section is good enough for a 16-core 9950X3D). For those on AM4-based Ryzen 5000 or older who haven't made the jump to the AM5 socket yet, the 9950X3D will offer an enormous performance improvement if you can justify the platform upgrade cost. Meanwhile, people on Intel, especially 11th Gen and older, can also consider AMD's new X3D flagship for some serious performance jump. The Ryzen 9 9950X3D gets an 9 out of 10 from us as there is very little to pick on as a flaw. Its efficiency aspect, as we see above in the performance-per-watt chart, is one area we hoped AMD would have done a bit better; although the company should still be comfortably ahead of Team Blue in this department, Intel could end up catching up soon if AMD does not practice caution. Verdict 9 Excellent AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D Pros Big gains in single-threaded gaming Much improved memory support over last-gen Huge AI performance boost in some cases Unlocked for overclocking Runs cooler Still on the same socket (AM5) Cons No power efficiency advantage vs last-gen Cost? Price $699 Release March 2025 Like Post Share Report a problem with article Follow @NeowinFeed Source Hope you enjoyed this news post. Thank you for appreciating my time and effort posting news every day for many years. News posts... 2023: 5,800+ | 2024: 5,700+ | 2025 (till end of February): 874 RIP Matrix | Farewell my friend

AMD has finally announced the release date and prices of its upcoming Ryzen 9000X3D processors. The Ryzen 9 9900X3D and the Ryzen 9 9950X3D are coming March 12, 2025, priced at $599 and $699, respectively. The date was announced by AMD's Jack Huynh on X: AMD announced these chips at CES 2025 and also shared performance gains that customers can expect from them. The Ryzen 9 9950X3D is the flagship model with 16 cores and 32 threads based on the Zen5 architecture. It operates at max speeds of up to 5.7GHz with a nominal TDP of 170W. However, it is not clocks or the number of cores that make X3D chips from AMD special. A large amount of stacked 3D V-Cache (second generation) enables significant performance gains over "regular" models. The Ryzen 9 9950X3D has 144MB of L3 combined L2+L3 cache, which is a 64MB increase over the standard Ryzen 9 9950X. As for the lower-tier model, the Ryzen 9 9900X3D, it is a 12-core/24-thread part with 140MB of L3 combined L2+L3 cache, 120 TDP, and up to 5.5GHz clocks. Both Ryzen 9 9950X3D and Ryzen 9 9900X3D are launching at the same price as their predecessors, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D and Ryzen 9 7900X3D, which were launched in February 2023. However, unlike previous-generation Ryzen processors with 3D cache, this generation supports overclocking thanks to cache improvements. In previous-gen Ryzen 3D models, overclocking was limited to avoid stability issues. Source Hope you enjoyed this news post. Thank you for appreciating my time and effort posting news every day for many years. News posts... 2023: 5,800+ | 2024: 5,700+ | 2025 (till end of February): 874 RIP Matrix | Farewell my friend

At its CES 2025 event today, AMD unveiled its flagship X3D processor of this generation, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D. This succeeds the 7950X3D and has a similar core configuration. As such, the 9950X3D packs 16 Zen 5 cores, 144 MB of total cache including 128 MB of 2nd Gen 3D V-cache. Eight of the cores will be on the core complex die (CCD) optimized for core clocks, while the other eight will be on the 3D V-cache CCD. The TDP has been raised though from 120 watts to 170. AMD 9950X3D showing dual CCDs at top and I/O die at bottom AMD's X3D chips incorporate a special sauce called the 3D V-cache (vertical cache) that stacks a ton of cache vertically on top of each other to drastically increase the amount of last-level cache (LLC) or L3 in a rather small footprint as workloads like games absolutely love it. AMD launched its 2nd Gen 3D V-cache last year with the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. The company has provided a performance comparison of the new Ryzen 9 9950X3D against the 7950X3D and the Intel Ultra 9 285K. Against its Intel competition, AMD claims the 9950X3D can offer up to 64% faster gaming performance in case of titles like Watch Dogs Legion. Across 40 games, the company says its new 16 core X3D part is on average 20% faster than Intel's 285K. AMD tested these at 1080p to eliminate GPU bottlenecks (read our dedicated article here to understand why it's important) on Windows 11 24H2 with VBS enabled. AMD has also provided gaming data against the 7950X3D. It looks like folks will have a harder time justifying this upgrade as the company shows an 8% improvement across 40 titles. However, in some games, users can expect to see massive gains like in the case of Counter Strike 2 where 58% bump is claimed. While AMD did not directly compare the Ryzen 9950X3D with the 9800X3D today, the firm has in the past shared gaming performance data of the latter vs the Intel 285K. The table below shows the performance of the 9800X3D vs 9950X3D using the Intel 285K as baseline since it's at 100% in both the charts: Ryzen 9800X3D Ryzen 9950X3D Counter Strike 2 128 125 Hogwarts Legacy 126 120 AotS Escalation 110 103 Cyberpunk 2077 159 136 Far Cry 6 153 145 Watch Dogs Legion 155 164 CoD Black Ops 6 147 127 It looks like the 9800X3D remains the fastest gaming CPU overall although the 9950X3D is also close behind. There are exceptions to this and we have bolded all such interesting cases. In terms of content creation performance, AMD claims that the new 9950X3D is 10% faster than the 285K and 13% faster than the 7950X3D respectively across 20 applications. The new AMD X3D CPU is especially better in rendering apps (like Corona and Blender) vs its 7000 series predecessor. meanwhile against the Intel 285K, the largest differentials are seen in Adobe Photoshop and 7-Zip. Aside from the 16 core 32 thread 9950X3D, AMD also unveiled the 12 core 24 thread 9900X3D. Spec-wise it is nearly identical to the 7900X3D though the boost clock is down by 100 MHz at 5.5 GHz. Thus the Ryzen 9 9900X3D also has 140 MB of total cache with 128 MB of L3 (3D V-cache). In terms of availability, AMD expects the Ryzen 9950X3D and 9900X3D to be out on shelves in Q1 2025 although no particular dates were disclosed. Source Hope you enjoyed this news post. Thank you for appreciating my time and effort posting news every day for many years. News posts... 2023: 5,800+ | 2024: 5,700+ RIP Matrix | Farewell my friend