by Gamers Nexus
This benchmark of AMD’s Ryzen 7 9850X3D CPU tests gaming performance, compares it against the best gaming CPUs out right now (like the 9800X3D, 9950X3D, and 7800X3D), and tests for power consumption, thermals, and frequency. We also tested the 9850X3D with some of the worst memory available: A DDR5-4800 kit from the release of DDR5, featuring a brand that gave up on consumers, Crucial via Micron. It’s like some sort of weird microcosm for the time or something. X3D can make-up for awful RAM in ways that lower cache CPUs can’t, which isn’t really a great selling point but somehow becomes one at a time when DRAM manufacturers are screwing consumers with nearly daily price increases.