Quote from: chris@amd on November 10, 2024, 22:16:22Intel should be happy 9950x3d isn't out yet. 9800x3d cannot beat 285k in production works, although 9950x is better at both gaming and production, 9950x3d will be true beast with both ccd stacked with 3d vcache and extreme clock speeds. it even beats 9800x3d in gaming and is aimed to beat everything in any workload. not exactly good outcome as a consumer perspective. and zen6 will widen the gap unfortunately.9950x isn't better at gaming than 9800x3d, the last one is absolute leader. The case of 7xx0X3D release has shown, that multi-chiplet-multi-core processors aren't interesting for gamers because of high price and tiny gaming performance gain. I doubt 9950x3d will be gamechanger, too few rich geeks really want $800+ CPU good in both types of tasks.