INFO:

The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D is AMD's flagship 16-core, 32-thread processor released in March 2025, built on the Zen 5 architecture (Granite Ridge) and manufactured using TSMC’s 4nm process. It features a hybrid dual-CCD design, with one CCD equipped with AMD's signature 3D V-Cache — offering an extra 64 MB of L3 cache, for a total of 144 MB cache (16 MB L2 + 128 MB L3). This design improves gaming performance significantly by dedicating latency-sensitive workloads to the V-Cache CCD. The chip has a base clock of 4.3 GHz and boosts up to 5.7 GHz, with a TDP of 170W. It supports DDR5 memory, PCIe 5.0, and uses the AM5 socket, ensuring compatibility with the latest X670 and B650 motherboards. Benchmarks show the 9950X3D outperforming Intel’s Core i9-14900K and even AMD’s own 7950X3D in many gaming and mixed workloads, thanks to its large cache and Zen 5 improvements. It also uses 3D V-Cache scheduling optimizations in Windows to assign tasks to the right CCD. In short: the Ryzen 9 9950X3D is one of the fastest consumer CPUs for gaming and productivity as of mid-2025, offering incredible performance, high efficiency, and next-gen platform features.