AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition crams 208MB of cache into a single chip

Ars Technica
By Andrew CunninghamMar 27, 2026, 8:44 am89 ptsTrending
For about four years now, AMD has offered special "X3D" variants of its high-end desktop processors with an extra 64MB of L3 cache attached, an addition that disproportionately benefits games. AMD calls this "3D V-Cache" because it stacks the cache directly on top of (for Ryzen 5000 and 7000) or beneath (for…

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