AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D Desktop CPU review: New gaming flagship with 3D V-Cache on AM5 socket

[Redaktion]

The Ryzen 7000 series isn't very old yet, and AMD already offers improvements, introducing efficient and still powerful processors with the X3D models. With the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D, we are taking a look at the new gaming flagship in this review. Find out from numerous benchmark tests, whether AMD succeeds in surpassing Intel's Core i9-13900K.

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[Nor Cal Nerd]

Have fun parking half your cores for gaming to avoid the dreaded 3D cache studder experienced by many in benchmark's. I'm a huge AMD guy btw seriously but the 7900X3D and 7950X3D cache chip design is dreadful it's a shame!

[NikoB]

All these shameful L3 caches are exactly the same crutch as in cheap SSDs, where they write huge numbers of read/write speeds only within the SLC cache. As soon as the SLC cache runs out, cheap SSDs immediately drop to a level that is often worse than SATA3 max read/write speed. The situation is approximately the same with all x86, which was completely disgraced against the background of Apple's M2 Max memory controller, which is 6 times faster than AMD memory controllers and 5 times faster than Intel.

As soon as this "3DCache" runs out (and today it is not even enough to keep all the key system drivers inside, not to mention software and games), any x86 processor immediately becomes about the same memory speed as a SATA3 SSD compared to 990 Pro and older.

x86 is at a complete standstill, and for several years now the kernels have been suffocating from the monstrously slow RAM.

Why do new processors get pci-e 5.0 28+ lines, if the top AMD processor can only serve 12-14 at a time?

When will we all consumers see RAM expandable in slots with read/write speeds of at least 300Gbyte/s?

[TypeCee]

After I understood how to use it is the moste amazing experience to have it.

 

[DougF]

When will we all consumers see RAM expandable in slots with read/write speeds of at least 300Gbyte/s?

Never, lol. It has to be close to CPU.