AMD launches Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9900X3D, claims 20% faster gaming performance than Intel’s flagship Arrow Lake processors

AMD announced its two flagship Ryzen 9000-series X3D processors here at CES 2025 in Las Vegas, with the 16-core 32-thread Ryzen 9 9950X3D leading the way with the potent Zen 5 architecture paired with AMD’s dominating game-boosting X3D technology to provide 128MB of L3 cache, all of which AMD says makes it the world’s best CPU for gaming and creator workloads.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-launches-ryzen-9-9950x3d-and-9900x3d-claims-20-percent-faster-gaming-performance-than-intels-flagship-arrow-lake-processors

Created 1mo | Jan 6, 2025, 7:50:04 PM


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