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 is also expected to launch a 3D V-Cache version of its future Zen 6 CPUs, as it has done with the past couple of generations. However, no details about the particular configuration of this—how much cache it will be, whether it will apply to both CCDs, etc.—have yet been announced.