🎮 Gaming Mar 27, 2026 · Andrew Cunningham

AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition crams 208MB of cache into a single chip

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AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition crams 208MB of cache into a single chip
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For about four years now, AMD has offered special "X3D" variants of its high-end desktop processors with an extra 64MB of L3 cache attached, an addition that disproportionately benefits games. AMD calls this "3D V-Cache" because it stacks the cache directly on top of (for Ryzen 5000 and 7000) or beneath (for Ryzen 9000) the CPU die.
The 12- and 16-core Ryzen chips have their CPU cores split between two silicon chiplets, which has historically made the 7900X3D, 7950X3D, 9900X3D, and 9950X3D a bit

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