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Gamers have been wondering if AMD would eventually do this ever since the X3D series started way back in 2022, two generations ago. Pundits (including some of our own on The Full Nerd) thought there wouldn’t be much point to it, since the V-cache hardware is already extremely expensive just sitting on one half of the die, and expanding it to all the cores isn’t hugely beneficial in terms of gaming, where going past six cores or so usually has diminishing returns. That seems to track with AMD’s announcement. According to the promotional information, the 9950X3D2 (woo that’s a mouthful) “deliver