AMD's 7800X3D and 7950X3D CPUs reign supreme in the gaming realm, not solely due to their core count or clock speeds, but primarily owing to their abundant cache. CPU cache refers to a small yet ...

If you own a dual-CCD X3D Ryzen, your high performance power plan may be costing you ...

A CPU relies on various kinds of storage to optimally run programs and power a computer. These include components like hard disks and SSDs for long-term storage, RAM and GPU memory for fast, temporary ...

X3D Turbo Mode reportedly does a few things to improve performance on 3D V-Cache CPUs. First and most obviously, it limits operations to a single core complex die (CCD). CPUs like the Ryzen 9 7950X3D ...

Richard is the PC Hardware Lead at XDA and has been covering the technology industry for almost two decades. He's been building PCs since young, and when not creating content, you can often find him ...

Multi-core processors theoretically can run many threads of code in parallel, but some categories of operation currently bog down attempts to raise overall performance by parallelizing computing. Is ...

AMD today launched the fastest gaming processor ever with its new Ryzen 7 9850X3D. The company shared performance benchmarks and more details. At CES 2026 today, AMD made a couple of major mobile ...

New AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9900X3D gaming CPUs could have been produced with even better specs, but to do so would have made them far too expensive. That's according to AMD, who stated at CES this ...

The AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 8-Core, 16-Thread Desktop Processor is marked down to $348 on Amazon, down from its regular price of $449. That’s a $101 discount, or 22% off.

The leak suggests the Intel CPUs will be more temperature-sensitive than existing options from Intel's Core 200 and Core 300 ...

While modern consoles do use a lot of hardware that's very similar to what you'd find in a PC, comparing the two is often trickier than it seems.

A funny thing happened on the way from machine learning to chatbots to agentic AI: the central processing unit, or CPU, that ...