Much like Nessie, reports of AMD’s first consumer dual 3D cache processor continue to surface online, giving hope of a forthcoming official reveal. From leaks to benchmarks, the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 is yet another tech product (also looking at you Intel Arc B770), which is more or less known to exist but not released or announced, and while benchmarks can be faked, this particular one is suspected to have come from GIGABYTE labs.
Per Geekbench (via VideoCardz):
If this truly is the 9950X3D2 processor with 2x 8-Core CCDs, each paired with its own 96MB 3D cache, then it would appear to be running at the rumored factory specs. These are the 4.30 GHz base clock with a boost clock of 5.6 GHz, paired with 48 GB 7996 MT/s of DDR5 memory on GIGABYTES top-end AORUS TACHYON ICE X870 motherboard. As impressive as these single-thread and multi-thread scores are, they are still just a marginal improvement over the previous 9950X3D, which only featured a single CCD with the full 3D cache, and some have reported the overclocked predecessor was capable of achieving similar scores.
However, this is not the end of the story, nor even truly the beginning, for the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2, as it is a halo gaming product and as such, synthetic tests don’t always give an accurate picture of gaming performance. Meanwhile, PC enthusiasts remain optimistic and curious to see if the chip manufacturer has refined the schedule,r which directs tasks across multiple CCDs since it could play a major factor in the new processor’s performance gains. AMD has recently said that it is planning something soon, so hopefully, an official reveal is imminent, and for those who already have an AM5 setup capable of supporting such a beefy CPU, there could be a nice upgrade happening in the coming months.