Credible rumor: AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D & 9900X3D late January with 1 × cache 164 comments
When will the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D and Ryzen 9 9900X3D with two chipsets for 16 and 12 CPU cores respectively follow the Ryzen 7 9800X3D (test) and offer additional 3D V-Cache on each chiplet for the first time? The X account Hoang Anh Phu, who has been precise on several occasions regarding AMD, would like to have an answer to these two questions.
End of January with a 3D V-Cache chiplet
So, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D with 16 cores and Ryzen 9 9900X3D with 12 Zen 5 cores will appear at the end of January and should be presented by AMD at CES 2025 in early January. Both chiplets should not be equipped with 3D V-Cache.
AMD probably decided not to do this because very few games benefit from more than eight cores. Typically, it is sufficient to only run game threads on the X3D chipset for the 12- and 16-core variants using the chipset driver and help from the Xbox Game Bar.
Two chiplets with cache not only have advantages
This usually works, but not always: Stalker 2 (test), for example, was not recognized as a game when it launched last week and ran on the wrong chiplet in the Game Bar without manual intervention. This was still the case with Outcast – A New Beginning (review) even months after release. In this case, users must complete the assignment manually using the Xbox Game Bar overlay.
Two X3D chipsets would avoid this error-prone path, but also make the processor more expensive. However, generally allowing games to run on all 16 cores would rarely have any real benefit and would sometimes have a downside as well – when games with more than 8 cores and 16 threads cause problems.
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