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AMD launches Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9900X3D, claims 20% faster gaming performance than Intel’s flagship Arrow Lake processors


AMD lands another blow on Intel’s troubled Arrow Lake.

AMD says the Ryzen 9 9950X3D beats Intel’s flagship Arrow Lake Core Ultra 9 285K by a whopping 20% measured across 40 games (we provide the test notes at the end of the article). Again, AMD claims to beat Intel’s flagship 285K handily, with a 10% lead in content creation apps, though we do see that the wins are heavily weighted towards multi-threaded applications and feature a few outliers that improve the average ranking quite a bit (7zip, Photoshop). The Ryzen 9 9950X3D slots in at the top of the Zen 5 stack with 16 cores, 32 threads, 144 MB of total cache, and a peak boost clock rate of 5.7 GHz.

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