With AI’s data boom, powerful memory is becoming all the more necessary for next-gen computing. It is 3D NAND that can ...

Now that the embargo of the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D finally lifted, I can talk about some of the finer details of the chipmaker’s top-of-the-line 3D V-Cache CPU. Just like the 9800X3D, the 9950X3D has ...

So the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D has something of a high bar to clear given the strength of AMD's first Zen 5 3D V-Cache chip, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D, but having spent a week testing this chip, I can say ...

AMD first added 3D V-Cache (an extra portion of L3 cache that can boost gaming performance) to its Ryzen 7 5800X3D nearly three years ago and it was an instant hit. This is also something Intel ...

Of course, Ryzen 9 9950X3D features AMD’s latest Zen 5 microarchitecture, and its second generation 3D V-Cache literally flips the build upside down, to allow for not only higher clocks ...

AMD’s new Ryzen 9 9950X3D is built on the Zen 5 architecture and includes second-generation 3D V-Cache. AMD has added 16 cores and improved the base clocks to make this CPU better at both gaming ...

Some NAND flash memory corporations, including SanDisk, have begun to raise prices, leading to the analysis that the NAND market, which has been unable to escape declining prices due to oversupply ...

AMD says the 9000X3D chips use a "second-generation" version of its 3D V-Cache technology after using the same approach for the Ryzen 5000 and 7000 processors. The main difference is that ...

the Ryzen 9 9950X3D is fully overclockable thanks to AMD rearchitecting the way the 3D V-cache sits on the compute die, so there's a lot more that this chip can do that other X3D chips can't.

Essentially, it's nothing more than a Ryzen 9 9950X—same cores, same clocks, same power—with one of the CCDs (Core Complex Dies) being home to a slice of 2nd generation 3D V-Cache. Or you can ...

That ought to mean that it should roughly match the 9950X in standard workloads or even pull beyond it, even if that 3D V-Cache consumes a bit of extra power and produces a bit of extra heat.