The AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D is widely regarded as the best gaming desktop processor available today, with its 3D V-Cache providing an extra performance boost in many games and applications. Now, there's a slightly better version: meet the Ryzen 7 9850X3D.

Saying that it has been a busy launch season for AMD is an incredible understatement. Not only did we see the release of the high powered, high performing Ryzen 7000X Series, but we also got a full stack of lower powered, but still respectably performant ...

AMD is working on a mysterious dual-cache Ryzen processor, and early benchmarks give us a glimpse of what its bigger L3 cache has to offer.

Naturally, this led many to look at the more affordable AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 8-core 16-thread processor that launched a few months later as the best bang-for-your-buck CPU for gaming. Specs-wise, the flagship AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D 16-core 32-thread processor ...

The AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D’s launch at the end of February made one thing abundantly clear: the first of Team Red’s 7000-series 3D V-Cache processors were gaming monsters. Their extra additional layer of spicy L3 cache supercharged their performance.

When AMD released the Socket AM5 platform and its first Zen 4 Ryzen 7000 desktop processors, amidst their impressive performance profile was a singular sticking point known as the Ryzen 7 5800X3D. This previous-gen CPU with the company's innovative 3D V ...

AMD is supposedly launching a new 3D V-Cache processor from what's now the last-gen of its CPU line-up (namely Ryzen 7000). According to a leaker on X, Hoang Anh Phu - admittedly not one of the more common names that crops up - AMD has a Ryzen 5 7600X3D in ...

Rumors dropped this week about two new future AMD and Intel CPUs with much higher quantities of L3 cache than we've seen in consumer chips. Although they might be good for gaming, these chips are likelier to target users who want to run powerful large ...

AMD’s Zen 4 3D V-Cache CPUs are true marvels of modern CPU performance. They offer exceptional gaming performance on par with the absolute best that Intel has to offer, and yet do it at a fraction of the power draw and heat output. They lose out on ...

James Ratcliff joined Game Rant in 2022 as a Gaming News Writer. In 2023, James was offered a chance to become an occasional feature writer for different games and then a Senior Author in 2025. He is a third-generation Texan who has written professionally ...