AMD announces Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition: a CPU with a mighty 208 MB of L3 cache aimed at game devs

AMD has announced a new X3D processor, the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition, set to launch on April 22. This chip will have 3D V-Cache on both of its eight-core chiplets, something we've not seen before. Though don't expect this to mean twice the gaming performance—far from it.

"Together," AMD Computing and Graphics SVP & GM Jack Huynh says of the two chiplets with V-Cache, "they deliver an incredible 208 MB of total on-chip cache, the most we ever built into a Ryzen processor."

"208 MB of cache means more game data...