When you're comparing two of the best CPUs, the first spec that comes to mind is clock speed. It quite literally represents how fast the CPU can churn through clock cycles, and naturally, you'd assume ...

For decades, upgrading a PC was straightforward; if something felt slower, a faster CPU upgrade was usually the solution. And in most cases, it worked, since most of the earlier tasks were ...

Believe it or not, you can make AMD's latest king of the gaming CPU world even faster, and it won't even cost you any money. In this guide, we'll show you how to overclock the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, ...

AMD's new-for-2026 Ryzen 7 9850X3D processor kicks up the clocks and packs the same extra-fast cache in an effort to outpace the well-regarded Ryzen 7 9800X3D. I have been interested in science and ...

TL;DR: AMD's upcoming Ryzen 7 9850X3D processor offers 5% better performance than the 9800X3D and 20% more than the 7800X3D, featuring 8 cores, 16 threads, 5.6GHz clock speed, and second-gen 3D ...

In an interview with Tom's Hardware, AMD's Senior Technical Marketing Manager, Don Woligroski, said: "Is it the fastest in gaming? It's faster than the competition in our tests. X3D is still the king ...