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The internet waited with extreme eagerness for AMD’s second-generation 3D V-Cache chips—and when the Ryzen 9 7950X3D and 7900X3D launched in late February, and the Ryzen 7 7800X3D followed in early April, they weren’t disappointed. All…

In this episode of The Full Nerd, Gordon Ung, special guest Brad Shoemaker of the Nextlander podcast, and Adam Patrick Murray get nerdy about Ryzen 9 7950X3D reviews and the state of PC gaming. Longtime games journalist and Ryzen…

With AMD’s new V-Cache-infused Ryzen 9 7950X3D and 7900X3D processors now formally on sale, the company’s “best of both worlds” design is creating confusion. Both Ryzen 9 X3D chips ship with two dies inside. One die comes stacked…

The X3D variants of AMD’s Ryzen 7000 CPUs are tearing up the performance benchmarks, especially for gaming builds. But what makes the Ryzen 7950X3D better than the standard 7950X, and the similar designs without the upgrade? It’s all…

In recent years, two has been a good number for AMD. More specifically—the second generation of its CPU architectures. What the company begins in the first gen, it pushes forward in some substantial way in the next round. We saw this…

One of the most appealing CPUs of last year for gamers was AMD’s Ryzen 7 5800X3D thanks to its novel 3D V-cache technology. At CES 2023, AMD’s back with an even more bodacious Zen 4-based follow-up: the Ryzen 9 7950X3D. Gordon got the…