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.

The AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D already took the gaming PC world by storm. Where does the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D, with its 16 cores and 32 threads stack up?