AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X is a brilliant CPU, but it has its flaws, namely heat and power draw. I upgraded my gaming rig and here's ...

Let's start with what the Ryzen 9 9950X is best at and that's productivity, content creation, rendering, video editing, and so on. As you can see, it's not just good at it, it's the best CPU for ...

This Threadripper Pro 9995WX puts out over 2,000 watts of heat, so typical CPU cooling simply wasn't going to get the job ...

The Ryzen 9 9950X is AMD's best consumer CPU to date. It increases IPC across a massive 16/32 design, allowing it to handle even the largest workloads with reduced power consumption, but it's not ...

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X – Performance Last week’s launch of the AMD Ryzen 7 9700X was a bit of a disappointment – it was faster than its predecessor, but not by much. The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X ...

The Ryzen 9 9950X brings small performance gains compared to the Ryzen 9 7950X. It's a worthy upgrade if you're coming from an older system, but those who already have the 7950X shouldn't see much ...

The specs and price of the two new chips are shown in the table below, with the 9950X being a 16-core part just like the 7950X (and 7950X3D) that preceded it. Likewise, the 9900X is a 12-core chip ...

The 9950X is almost as good in most cases, but the 9950X3D has an advantage in a few apps that help make it more capable there, too. That said, if you aren’t playing games at all, there is very ...

In this app, the Ryzen 9 9950X is over 20% ahead of the Core i9-14900K. Blender is an interesting workload to look at when it comes to CPUs, as it shows off the rendering capabilities of a chip.

The Ryzen 9 9950X is a 16-core/32-thread processor with a 4.3GHz base clock, up to a 5.7GHz max boost clock, 64MB of L3 cache, and a 170W TDP. You can read our Ryzen 9 9950X and 9900X review to ...

AMD further said that the 9950X is going to have a 56% improvement in Blender over the i9 14900K. However, according to Tom Hardware the Ryzen 9 9950X performance isn't as impressive in Blender.