AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 With 192MB L3 Cache Spotted In Multiple Benchmarks

The long-awaited "double X3D" CPU, which AMD once denied would ever happen, has finally confirmed its existence with new leaks over at Geekbench and Passmark. We'll cut to the chase: neither benchmark result is particularly interesting, as both show performance nearly identical to the extant Ryzen 9 9950X3D in these specific benchmarks. However, the confirmation of this chip's existence is the more interesting detail, as it hadn't appeared in leaks until now.

To back up a moment, we're going to assume that you're familiar with AMD's 3D V-Cache. If you're not, check out our past coverage. People have been hoping for a Ryzen 9 processor with V-Cache on both CCDs for some time despite the somewhat questionable merits of such a processor. In terms of consumer workloads, gaming is the only thing that really benefits from the extra cache, and a single-CCD configuration ...