TL;DR: Dell's Alienware Area-51 gaming PC now features AMD Ryzen 9000X3D processors, including the Ryzen 9 9950X3D, paired with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 GPUs. These configurations offer enhanced ...

The Area-51 uses the X870E motherboard and can be configured with the Ryzen 7 9800X3D or the Ryzen 9 9950X3D. Both processors include AMD’s 3D V-cache technology, which improves access to game data ...

You spoke and Dell's Alienware division heard you—the latest-generation AMD Ryzen processors based on Zen 5 are now an option on the Alienware Area-51 desktop gaming PC, the same one we reviewed in ...

In context: Launched earlier this year, the Ryzen 9900X3D and 9950X3D quickly earned a reputation as two of the best gaming CPUs on the market, praised for their performance and efficiency. Following ...

As generations go, AMD's 9000 series is a little lackluster; most of the Zen 5 changes are more suited to big data crunching and less useful for your average working Joe at home. Nowhere is this more ...

How can we push CPUs forward? That's the question the computing industry has been asking since the Intel 4004 processor launched in 1971. Chipmakers have tried cranking up clock speeds, adding ...

AMD loves to build to a crescendo. As it’s shown since 2016, when its first Ryzen CPUs launched, the company progresses incrementally but steadily—until Team Red sits all the way at the top. That time ...

Even three years later, AMD’s high-end X3D-series processors still aren’t a thing that most people need to spend extra money on—under all but a handful of circumstances, your GPU will be the limiting ...

The Ryzen 9 9950X3D is the jack-of-all-trades CPU. As good as the Ryzen 7 9800X3D in games and roughly the same as the 9950X in content creation. It's a processing powerhouse with few peers, but it's ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Consumer confidence in Intel's processor lineup is at an all-time low due to the well-publicized issues with the long-term reliability of the ...

The big picture: When AMD announced the 9900X3D and 9950X3D earlier this month, many gamers anticipated that these processors would deliver even better performance than the Ryzen 7 9800X3D, which was ...

AMD has confirmed that it could make a limited-edition 16-core Ryzen X3D CPU with 3D V-cache on all 16 cores, and that it's going to analyze whether it's worth it, but that it thinks it will be a very ...