R9 7900X3D & RTX 4090 Sons Of The Fores

R9 7900X3D & RTX 4090 Sons Of The 4090 consistently reached 100 fps at 4K and the highest graphics preset (DLSS and ray tracing off) in most of the games we tested. Some notable results: Far Cry 6 130 fps, Total War: Warhammer 3 100 fps, Borderlands 3 126 fps, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla 110 fps, and Hitman 3 178 fps. AMD’s new 16-core 7950X3D is the first 3D V-Cache chip to employ two compute chiplets, boosting productivity apps and enabling a higher boost frequency of 5.7 GHz, a big improvement over the previous-gen’s 4.5 GHz peak. This new flagship Ryzen 9 7950X3D chip is priced at $699 and has 16 cores with 32 threads and 144MB of cache. It goes head-to-head with Intel’s flagship Core i9-13900K, which retails at around $589 and has eight performance cores and 16 efficiency cores for a total of 32 threads. While Intel’s main Core i9 is cheaper, AMD also has to compete with Intel’s new $699 Core i9-13900KS processor, which breaks the 6GHz barrier at st