AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D Review: Giving Intel a Run For Its Money
AMD’s Ryzen 7000 series has been in the wild for just under five months, which makes it prime time for an X3D upgrade! We first saw the firm’s vertical 3D cache technology with last generation’s Ryzen 5000 series and it delivered improved gaming performance. This time around, AMD has unlocked Precision Boost Overdrive for even better performance — enough that AMD is positioning this directly against Intel’s Core i9-13900K for gaming and multi-threaded applications.
Coming to marketed with a suggested retail price of $699, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D is priced identically to the original Ryzen 9 7950X. It maintains the same 16 cores and 32 threads of performance, socket AM5 compatibility, and is even more power efficient. If you’re a gamer that also makes use of heavily multi-threaded applications, this is definitely a CPU you should consider for your next system upgrade.
It’s also worth noting that the Ryzen 9 7950X3D is launching alongside the Ryzen 9 7900X3D, which can provide a most cost effective alternative if you don’t need all 16 cores. The 7900X3D features 12 cores and 24 threads and will launch at $599, a fifty dollar increase over the original 7900X3D. AMD will also launch the Ryzen 7 7800X3D in April for $449, bringing with it 8-cores and 16-threads.
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The Ryzen 9 7950X3D is the new flagship consumer CPU for AMD, topping out its consumer product stack and going head-to-head with the Intel Core i9-13900KS. The original 7950X was already a top-performing processor and we were very impressed in our original review . The 13900K (we weren’t able to examining the “KS” version gave it a run for its money in gaming performance, however, and the even more performant KS variant extended that lead. The 7950X3D
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