AMD's 7800X3D and 7950X3D CPUs reign supreme in the gaming realm, not solely due to their core count or clock speeds, but primarily owing to their abundant cache. CPU cache refers to a small yet ...

Laptop gaming is about to get really good, if ...

A CPU relies on various kinds of storage to optimally run programs and power a computer. These include components like hard disks and SSDs for long-term storage, RAM and GPU memory for fast, temporary ...

X3D Turbo Mode reportedly does a few things to improve performance on 3D V-Cache CPUs. First and most obviously, it limits operations to a single core complex die (CCD). CPUs like the Ryzen 9 7950X3D ...

Rumors dropped this week about two new future AMD and Intel CPUs with much higher quantities of L3 cache than we've seen in consumer chips. Although they might be good for gaming, these chips are ...

Multi-core processors theoretically can run many threads of code in parallel, but some categories of operation currently bog down attempts to raise overall performance by parallelizing computing. Is ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. AMD's upcoming Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 processor has been recently benchmarked on Geekbench, with more single-core and multi-core performance than the Ryzen 9 ...

Richard is the PC Hardware Lead at XDA and has been covering the technology industry for almost two decades. He's been building PCs since young, and when not creating content, you can often find him ...

AMD is one of the top players in the arena of making CPUs for computers and other electronic devices, but that doesn't mean ...

AMD today launched the fastest gaming processor ever with its new Ryzen 7 9850X3D. The company shared performance benchmarks and more details. At CES 2026 today, AMD made a couple of major mobile ...

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