The winner of the PC Gamer Hardware Award for the best gaming CPU will be announced on New Year's Eve. It's obvious that AMD ...

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 leaks in CPU-Z benchmark with 128MB dual L3 cache (two 64MB CCDs, one 3D V-Cache) on X870E board.

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Arm versus x86 is a battle for the ages. And 2025 was meant to be the year that Arm chips finally made inroads into the PC ...

TL;DR: AMD's upcoming Zen 6 gaming processor may feature up to 240MB of stacked L3 V-Cache and reach 7.0GHz clock speeds, delivering 6-8% higher FP IPC than Zen 5. This flagship 12-core, 24-thread CPU ...

TL;DR: AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D, a truly excellent gaming CPU, is now widely available at its MSRP of $479 at major US retailers like Amazon, Newegg, and Best Buy in the US. It's been a long wait, mind ...

An AMD gaming CPU with even more 3D V-cache than the Ryzen 9950X3D is reportedly in the works. The latest rumor suggests that AMD is working on two new gaming CPUs, one of which has a total of 16 ...

The iBuypower Y40 Pro is equipped with an AMD Ryzen 9 7900X processor, GeForce RTX 5080 16GB graphics card, 32GB of DDR5 RAM, ...

Gamers Nexus called it a “wasted opportunity.” Hardware Unboxed declared it a “flop.” Even in our own Ryzen 7 9700X review, I said the CPU doesn’t have “enough meat on the bone to justify an upgrade.” ...

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