AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D is the newer option out these two CPUs, launching on March 11, 2025 for a list price of $700. The Core Ultra 9 285K released on October 24, 2024 for a list price of $600.

The Ryzen 9 9950X3D, just like its non-X3D counterpart, has two CCDs, both of which house eight Zen 5 cores. The Ryzen 7 9800X3D, with its eight Zen 5 cores, only has a single CCD.

The Ryzen 9 9950X3D has a 170W configurable TDP, which is a step up over previous-gen parts (the 7950X3D is 120 watts), and slots into the same AM5 socket as the Ryzen 7000 and other 9000 series ...

AMD’s new Ryzen 9 9950X3D delivers a final blow to Intel. The 9950X3D is superior in both gaming and creator tasks, making it one of the best CPUs to buy.

AMD’s new Ryzen 9 9950X3D and Ryzen 9 9900X3D will be available from March 12 for $699 and $599 respectively, while in the U.K. those prices have just been confirmed at £659 and £564.

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 ...

The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D is a 16-core, 32-thread gaming processor with an absolutely ridiculous 144MB of cache, so it shouldn’t be too surprising that it’s incredibly powerful.

The story of the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D is refreshingly straightforward: it is as fast as the chart-leading Ryzen 7 9800X3D in games but has double the cores, so it's significantly better in content ...

Still, you could build a solid Ryzen 9 system for far less than the Mac Studio M4 Max's $2,000 starting cost, even while accounting for the 9950X3D's $700 price tag. Apple doesn't always come out ...

Ryzen 9 9950X3D review: AMD irons out nearly every single downside of 3D V-Cache Not a lot of people actually need this thing, but if you do, it's very good.

Enter the Ryzen 9 9950X3D. It's designed to be the chip to do the lot. It's got a V-cache-equipped Core Complex Die (CCD) and another standard CCD, giving it 16 cores and 32 threads of multi ...

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