The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D has been spotted in a benchmark leak, marking the first time the widely anticipated chip has apparently appeared out in the world being tested. The 16-core flagship gaming CPU of AMD’s Zen 5 Ryzen lineup is expected to offer specs similar to the Ryzen 9 7950X3D, but with a slight boost in all-round performance.
With our AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D review showing this chip to be the current absolute best gaming CPU around, there’s a lot of reason to be interested in what a 16-core chip based on AMD’s latest technology can do. Previous 16-core X3D variants, such as the 7950X3D and 5950X3D, haven’t been as fast when it comes to gaming, due to the way the X3D cache is configured. However, there’s speculation that the new 16-core chips could use a different X3D configuration, which may untap their gaming performance.
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