AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition: Ultimate No-Compromise CPU Review

Although it had been rumored for months, AMD didn’t officially unveil the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition until just a few weeks ago. If you missed the original announcement, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition features 3D V-Cache on both of its Core Complex Dies (CCDs), bringing the total amount of L3 cache on the chip to a massive 192MB. AMD’s desktop Ryzen processors with more than eight cores are built using dual CCDs, with a maximum of eight cores per die. To date, those processors featured 3D V-Cache on only one CCD. The 3D V-Cache boosts gaming performance of the chips, but the asymmetric nature of those processors necessitates some driver magic and creative scheduling to ensure workloads are assigned to the proper core(s) and CCD. That, however, won’t be the case with the new Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition...



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