Back in late February, we reviewed the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D, the company’s latest high-end processor for gamers and creators. As its name implies, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D is similar to the standard Ryzen 9 7950X in terms of its core counts and frequencies, but that "3D" bolted onto the end of its name means the chip is packing AMD’s 3D V-Cache technology that gives PC gaming a big performance boost. 3D V-Cache is essentially a healthy, 64MB serving of L3 cache, 3D stacked onto a Zen 4 die, to allow the processor to keep much more data close to the CPU cores, minimizing cache misses and calls out to system memory. The Ryzen 7 7800X3D, though fundamentally similar to the 7950X3D, has some key differences that make it particularly well-suited to gaming...



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