If you want the full low-down on each of the chips we're talking about here individually, it's well worth reading our reviews of both the Core i9 14900K and Ryzen 9 7950X3D.There you'll find all ...

Even the Ryzen 9 7950X3D, AMD’s previous crown jewel of both gaming and productivity, is $125 cheaper than the Ryzen 9 9950X is launching at. Jacob Roach / Digital Trends.

AMD’s own Ryzen 9 7950X3D is much cheaper at around $520 and shockingly close in performance. In addition, Intel’s Core i9-14900K is surprisingly competent in the face of the Ryzen 9 9950X.

The AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX3D is that new chip, sporting a total of 144MB of L2+L3 cache, 16 cores of Zen 4 processing power, with 32 threads, and a boost clock of 5.4GHz.

AMD’s new Ryzen 9 9950X3D delivers a final blow to Intel. ... At $699, the 9950X3D is an expensive processor, just like the 7950X3D was when it debuted at the same price in 2023.

Unlike the Ryzen 9 7950X3D that preceded it, though, the 3D V-Cache is now physically located below the actual CPU cores, rather than above them. This seems like a minor change, ...

IE the EPYC™ 4584PX is basically the Ryzen™ 9 7950X3D but with some minor server oriented changes, but IMO for the market that would get a Epyc 4004 putting vcache on both CCD's would be ...