AMD's updated Ryzen 9 7950X3D puts Team Red back in the lead, but it also carries a price increase now that current-gen options are getting cheaper.
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D MSRP $700.00 Score Details DT Recommended Product “Gaming, productivity -- the Ryzen 9 7950X3D does it all, assuming you can stomach its high price.” Pros Cons After claiming a small victory, AMD took a back seat to Intel’s Core i9-13900K on the list of the best processors. But AMD is looking to gain some ground on Team Blue, and it’s bringing extra cache this time around.
This hardware design is what makes the Ryzen 9 7950X3D possible in the first place. The processor communicates with the operating system to focus on the cache CCD for tasks that are sensitive to cache, and the non-cache CCD for tasks that are sensitive to frequency. It’s like a different take on the hybrid architecture in Intel’s Core i9-12900K and how it works with Thread Director.
All three platforms were running the latest 22H2 Windows 11 update. The Ryzen 9 7950X3D got a few specific BIOS tweaks to ensure AMD’s 3D V-Cache optimizations were running, but otherwise, the platforms all had ReBAR turned on, XMP or EXPO set to the default profile, and no in-BIOS overclocking enabled. I also left AMD’s Precision Boost Overdrive turned off, but the automatic overclocking feature is available on the AMD chips if you want a hair more extra performance.
Gaming performance More than ever, gaming performance of the Ryzen 9 7950X3D proves that not all games are built equally. In cache-sensitive titles like Far Cry 6, the chip shoots ahead, but in more GPU-intensive games like Red Dead Redemption 2, the updated chip provides little benefit. Synthetic benchmarks actually show slight regressions.
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