AMD prepares Ryzen 7 9850X3D and Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 CPUs with higher clocks and full 3D V-Cache on all cores. See what improvements are coming.

  • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    That’s quite interesting. I kinda like how power efficient X3D was because it was clock limited, but still.

    IIRC, the issue with ‘double’ X3D before was the infinity fabric couldn’t handle the cross-talk between the CCDs accessing each other’s L3 cache.

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      18 hours ago

      Also curious to know how both CCDs having extra cache is gonna affect the usual core parking routine for gaming

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        9 hours ago

        Yeah. Ouside of games that can use so many threads, you’re still better off with 1 CCD, I’d wager, but maybe there’s a niche where there isn’t so much interdependency, and spreading the threads out is better.