Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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AMD announced the 9850X3D just a few weeks ago, at CES 2026, it is an 8-core/16-thread processor featuring 3D V-Cache, a critical innovation by AMD that sees processors ship with stacked last-level cache. The processor comes with 64 MB of L3 cache augmenting the on-die 32 MB. What sets the 9850X3D apart from the 9800X3D is a fairly significant increase in maximum boost frequency, and an update to Precision Boost behavior that should improve boost residency across the multithreaded workload scaling spread. Officially, the base clock is the same for both models, at 4.7 GHz, but the maximum boost has increased from 5.2 GHz to 5.6 GHz (+7.7%). Is this enough to make it the best?

techpowerup.com/review/amd-ryzen-7-9850x3d

Ryzen 7 9850X3D
Ryzen 7 9800X3D
Ryzen 9 9950X3D
Ryzen 7 7800X3D
Ryzen 9 9950X
Ryzen 7 9700X
Core i9-14900K
Core Ultra 9 285K
Ryzen 5 9600X
Core i7-14700K
Ryzen 9 7950X
Core Ultra 7 265K

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