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.

AMD's fierce Ryzen 9 9950X3D delivers a small step up from the Ryzen 9 9950X in CPU performance and a bigger leap in certain gaming scenarios. For discriminating gamers, that justifies this 16 ...

Today Luke puts the new 5900x and 5950X under the microscope and walks away mighty impressed. These are extremely impressive ...

Last week AMD’s Zen 5 architecture arrived to mixed reception on the desktop. KitGuru has reviewed the new Zen 5 Ryzen 5 ...

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 ...

Here’s what AMD is launching today: AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D: 16 cores/32 threads, 5.7GHz turbo, 144MB cache, 170W TDP. AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D: 12 cores/24 threads, 5.5GHz turbo, 140MB cache, 120W TDP.

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 ...

Why The Ryzen 9 9950X3D Could Sell Out, Just Like The Ryzen 7 9800X3D We’ve been here before, though, with AMD’s Ryzen 7 9800X3D. Part of what made that processor so surprisingly fast was that ...

To performance test the Ryzen 9 9950X, I used our CPU benchmark suite updated for 2024, with the CPU housed in an Asus ROG Crosshair X670E Hero motherboard and an AMD-supplied 2201 BIOS.

Both the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X and 9950X3D have the same 170W TDP, though the original 9950X has a higher potential PPT. Though, in my testing, I found that both processors ended up peaking at 200W.

AMD's flagship Ryzen 9 9950X has the 16-core muscle to fight Intel's 14th Gen Core i9 CPUs and win. Plus, it's cheaper than AMD's last-gen equivalent, the 7950X.

Let me begin by confessing my bias for AMD's 12-core processors, as I really rate the Ryzen 9 7900X and 7900. The latter has been a solid workhorse of a chip, powering my primary AM5 test PC ...