That's the audience for the new Ryzen 9 9950X3D, a 16-core, Zen 5-based, $699 monster of a processor that AMD begins selling ...

AMD is launching the new Ryzen 9 9900X3D and 9950X3D with 3D V-Cache technology for faster gaming performance. The release date is set for March 12th, and they're priced at $599 and $699 respectively.

the Ryzen 9 9950X3D is fully overclockable thanks to AMD rearchitecting the way the 3D V-cache sits on the compute die, so there's a lot more that this chip can do that other X3D chips can't.

AMD today set its 9950X3D processor free ... along with an additional 64 MB silicon die of 3DV-Cache and thus a total of 144MB cache. The processor has a 170 W TDP rating and boasts a base ...