AMD announced the Ryzen 9 9900X3D at CES 2025 which allies 12 cores of Zen 5 goodness with a slab of 2nd Gen V-Cache. this approach works superbly well with the Ryzen 7 9800X3D and today we find out how well it works in a grunty Ryzen 9. We wanted to look at the 9900X3D before the 9950X3D, as some of the AMD slides showed some interesting results - so we wanted to delve a little deeper. Our 9950X3D review will be coming very soon as we knew everyone would be publishing that one today - we wanted to look at this one first. Read more here: 00:00 Start 01:33 9900X3D Hardware Specs 02:40 A look at AMD charts 03:58 AMD Chipset Drivers - the importance 04:46 Hardware test setup 05:58 BIOS settings and core latencies 06:30 Cinebench 2024 Single Core 07:21 Cinebench 2024 Multi Core 07:29 Geekbench 6 Multi Core 07:41 Geekbench 6 Single Core 07:53 Cinebench 2024 Multi Core per £ of cost 09:28 CPU Power Consumption 10:00 Cinebench 2024 Multi Core Per Watt 10:42 7 ZIP v24 Benchmark 11:01 AIDA 64 Memory Bandwidth 11:20 3DMark Time Spy 11:50 Far Cry 6 1080p 12:12 Far Cry 6 1440p 12:28 Avatar Frontiers of Pandora 1080p 12:50 Avatar Frontiers of Pandora 1440p 13:05 Assassins Creed Mirage 1080p 13:23 Assassins Creed Mirage 1440p 13:37 Cyberpunk 2077 1080p 13:48 Cyberpunk 2077 1440p 14:02 Total War Pharaoh 1080p 14:17 Total War Pharaoh 1440p 14:44 Leo’s views on this launch / 9900X3D 18:17 Closing thoughts £ from Scan - Ryzen 9 9950X3D 16C/32T, Max Boost, 144MB Cache, 170W TDP AMD says MSRP is £ £ Ryzen 9 9950X 16C/32T, Max Boost, 80MB Cache, 170W TDP £ from Scan - Ryzen 9 9900X3D 12C/24T, Max Boost, 140MB Cache, 120W TDP AMD says MSRP is £ £ Ryzen 9 9900X 12C/24T, Max Boost, 76MB Cache, 120W TDP official prices are $699 and $599, usually plus 20% for UK pricing so £649 and £549, according to AMD! Test system CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D Motherboard: MSI MPG X870E Carbon WiFi RAM: 32GB Trident Z5 Neo RGB DDR5-6000 C30 Graphics Card: MSI RTX 4090 Ventus 3X 24GB CPU cooler: Phanteks Glacier One 360D30 SSD: 1TB Crucial T700 Power Supply: Seasonic Focus ATX3.1 GX-1000 Gold Pros: Impressive gaming performance AMD chipset drivers handle 3D V-Cache very well Low operating temperature of 65 degrees C The 9900X3D has the same clock speeds and power draw as the regular 9900X Cons: The cost is too high and the value is poor The 3D cache doesn't help in day-to-day tasks Buy our merch from here: Discord invite link: Steam Community Be sure to support us on PATREON and read our MANTRA on HONEST REVIEWS Here: Visit our facebook page over here! Visit our Twitter page over here! #amdgaming #9900X3D #amd #ryzen9 #ryzen9000