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
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… Much like AMD's X3D chips carry a premium over their non-X3D counterparts, Intel will also charge more for the extra silicon real estate required by the 144MB cache block s . …
… The rest of us will probably be fine sitting on a less bombastic but still fantastic 9800X3D, 7800X3D, or even an older 5800X3D. …
… X3D CPUs are less sensitive to RAM speed The 3D V-cache allows my 9800X3D to be less reliant on system memory Probably the biggest reason why I didn't feel the drop from 6400MT/s to 6000MT/s comes down to how AMD's X3D chips are designed. …
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