Go ahead and pat yourself on the back if you managed to procure an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D before retailers ran out of stock
Go ahead and pat yourself on the back if you managed to procure an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D before retailers ran out of stock. As expected, the 9800X3D, which we deemed to be an “ideal CPU for PC gamers” in our review, is proving immensely popular. Oh, but don’t worry—even though initial inventories have been depleted, scalpers are more than happy to fill the void while retailers hit the restock button.By and large, the 9800X3D is the processor that gamers have been waiting for, and it’s finally here. It’s the first Ryzen 9000 series chip to sport a pile of 3D V-Cache, and just as we saw with previous generation iterations, the extra L3 cache has a notable impact on gaming performance. However, that alone is not the sole selling point.What AMD did this time around is relocate the 3D V-Cache to below the processor.
