AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D : AMD Retakes Gaming Crown with 3D V-Cache

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https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-ryzen-9-7950x3d-cpu-review

AMD takes a bite out of Raptor Lake.​

AMD’s $699 Ryzen 9 7950X3D is geared specifically for gamers looking to blast through CPU-limited games while still having the threaded heft of 16 cores that can handle the heaviest of productivity workloads.
The new chip comes packing sixteen Zen 4 cores and the company’s second-gen 3D V-Cache tech that unlocks 128MB of L3 cache, a combo that delivers the fastest gaming performance available on the market.
In our tests, the 7950X3D beats Intel’s fastest chip, the 6 GHz Core i9-13900KS, by 13% on average and up to 40%+ in some games, taking the top spot on our list of the best CPUs for gaming.

The 7950X3D uses AMD’s cutting-edge 3D chip-stacking technology, called 3D V-Cache, to enable an incredible 128MB of L3 cache. Like AMD’s inaugural X3D chip, the Zen 3 Ryzen 7 5800X3D, the extra L3 cache comes courtesy of a 3D-stacked SRAM chiplet fused atop the processor with hybrid bonding, which accelerates gaming to new heights in many titles. AMD also has a new thread-targeting technique designed to help apply the gains more evenly across a broad range of games.

 

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lol, AMD and Intel returning to era of just throwing massive amounts of wattage at the CPU so they can be in the top chart spots.

At a show I watched AMD 7950X and i9 13000KS running superhot with 360 mm liquid cooling solutions blasting at full fan speed along with multiple other case fans - and none of that could keep the 7950X or 13000KS cool. The cases are room and house heaters.

 

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