AMD revealed the Ryzen 9 9950X3D for desktop PCs, which the company is calling both the “world’s best gaming processor” and the “world’s best processor for content creation.” On paper, the comparison is brutal: AMD says its new chip is 20 percent faster in gaming than Intel’s Arrow Lake flagship,

AMD says the 9950X3D should be around 8 percent faster on average than the previous 7950X3D, based on benchmarks run on 40 games at 1080p. The gaming performance should be similar

"The AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D is extremely powerful in games, which makes it easier to recommend than other recent processors like the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K or Ryzen 9 9900X. Especially if you’re building a rig with a powerful graphics card, the 9800X3D is going to be the best way to get the most performance out of whichever GPU you pair it with."

AMD CPUs are going from strength to strength according to Valve's hardware survey, and are up 5% over the past two months, poaching buyers from Intel.

AMD announced the release of the new Ryzen 9950X3D chip, touting it as the best gaming CPU. Here's the new lineup and specifications.

You won't want anything else than this processor for your next gaming rig, so long as your budget can stretch.