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AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition tested: Gratuitous overkill with a price to match

go.theregister.com·Tobias Mann·about 1 month ago
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Review Ever since AMD's cache-stacked Ryzen 7 5800X3D closed the gap with Intel in gaming, folks have wondered: if one V-Cache chiplet is good, surely two must be better. With the launch of the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition (DE), we finally have our answer. The part crams 16 Zen 5 cores and 208 MB of system cache into a single AM5 socket, arguably making it AMD’s first, true halo CPU. It’s positioned in much the same class as Intel’s KS family of enthusiast processors used to fill, delivering a no-compromises experience in any workload, bar none. The flagship tops our charts, but the gains probably aren't as big as you'd hope, considering the eye-watering $899 MSRP. What performance uplift it does deliver doesn’t come cheap. Today, Intel doesn't have anything in this performance class, not to mention price bracket, which means AMD is really competing against itself. But – spoiler alert – for gaming, the 9950X3D2-DE offers no benefit over the much, much cheaper Ryzen 7 9850X3D.…

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