The New Chip

AMD recently released their Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition. Just like that suffix, my purchase of this CPU was unncessary. Following in the footsteps of AMD, I did it anyway.

But what is this chip? Basically the high core count Ryzen chips with 3D vcache have only had that cache on one of the CCDs because AMD says it’s not worth it to put it on both. But they listened to the people that want it anyway, and released this $900 chungus of a chip.