AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D | $599.99 at Newegg If you don't quite have the budget for the new flagship, the 9900X3D still gets you the 3D V-cache boost over the original Ryzen 9000 top dog, but comes in $100 cheaper. This CPU sports 12 cores and 24 threads, so you're still getting a lot of horsepower to gallop with.

It is, of course, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D and having spent a whole week pushing it through every possible benchmark I could think of, I can tell you now, it is the new champion of CPU

AMD’s newest addition to its Ryzen 9000 CPU lineup delivers top-tier performance for gaming and productivity tasks. Here are the top 4 things you should know.