Nine months ago, in July 2024, AMD launched its Zen 5 CPU architecture and the Ryzen 9000-series of processors. Compared to the previous generation, there wasn't a significant difference in performance, although subsequent Windows updates and motherboard BIOS revisions did improve matters a touch. For PC gamers, though, the real interest was elsewhere and we had to wait until November to get our hands on the Ryzen 7 9800X3D.
AMD already held the gaming CPU crown with its Ryzen 7 7800X3D but the new chip easily grabbed the gaming tiara and firmly jammed it onto its head. But now there's a new Ryzen chip, one that's even faster than the 9800X3D in games and offers far superior performance in productivity and content creation tasks.
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