It’s no secret that AMD has been dominating in PC gaming CPU performance, but you always had to make a difficult choice between Intel and AMD if you used your gaming PC for professional workloads as well. With AMD’s $699 Ryzen 9 9950X3D, you don’t need to choose: AMD now has the best CPU for both gaming and creator tasks.

With double the cores of the $479 Ryzen 7 9800X3D, the new 16-core Ryzen 9 9950X3D boosts performance in creator workloads like Photoshop and Premiere Pro, to the point where it comfortably beats its closest competitors in the form of Intel’s Core i9-14900K and even the latest Core Ultra 9 285K processor.

While AMD’s first Zen 5 CPUs disappointed everyone in gaming, the latest X3D versions have more than made up for that. The 9800X3D became the best gaming CPU last year, and now the 9950X3D greatly improves creator workloads while mostly maintaining that stellar gaming performance.

AMD promised it would be “the world’s best processor for gamers and creators,†and the 9950X3D is truly that. It’s the ultimate blow to Intel’s flagship CPU lineup.

AMD’s latest productivity improvements with the 9950X3D required a redesign of its latest X3D c …

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