AMD has dominated PC gaming CPU performance for more than two years. Its X3D chips have provided a boost that Intel has been unable to match, and its new $479 Ryzen 7 9800X3D goes a step further to not only improve gaming performance but also day-to-day tasks and creative workloads.

The Ryzen 7 9800X3D is an incredible gaming CPU, but these four alternatives give AMD's latest a run for its money.

Our 9800X3D overclocking guide shows you how to run your processor at 5.4GHz, using either AMD Ryzen Master, or your motherboard BIOS.

When KitGuru reviewed AMD’s Zen 5 Ryzen 7 9700X we advised that you wait until they launched the inevitable 3D version of the CPU as we were sure it would be a banger. What we didn’t know then was that AMD had a new version of 3D V-Cache in the works that would move the dial significantly.

AMD's new Ryzen 7 9800X3D is a high-performance gaming CPU featuring eight cores, sixteen threads, and second-gen 3D V-Cache, with speeds reaching up to 5.2 GHz. Priced at $479, it delivers approximately 8% better gaming performance than its predecessor,

As many of you probably know, AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU has landed. Like all it's predecessors, it holds the promise of screaming fast gaming performance,