In all the hustle and bustle of the showroom floor, it's easy to lose yourself in the mix of new and exciting products that dominate CES 2025. But don't forget the chips and silicon that kicked off this year's event — we didn't.

AMD served up a smorgasbord of new laptop processor lines: gamer-riffic X3D chips, a workstation-minded Ryzen AI Max family, and the new low-cost Ryzen 200 series.

AMD announced its latest X3D chips at CES 2025, the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D and Ryzen 9 9900X3D, further expanding its 3D V-Cache lineup in its Ryzen 9000-series processors. The two new chips, which replace the current Ryzen 9 7950X3D and Ryzen 9 7900X3D processors released in early 2023,

AMD gaming CPUs like the 9950X3D only have one 3D V-Cache because the performance gain isn't worth the cost, according to the company.

AMD unveiled two new Ryzen 9 9000-series processors at CES 2025 with frame-rate-boosting 3D V-Cache as its latest top-end desktop chips for gamers and creators.

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 main draw of CES 2025 for most PC gamers is new graphics cards, but CPU enthusiasts have something to be excited for too. Not one, but two new Ryzen 9 9000 desktop processors have just been unveiled,

AMD has revealed the Ryzen 9 9950X3D and Ryzen 9 9900X3D at CES 2025, two top-end gaming processors featuring Team Red's 3D V-Cache technology. These processors follow the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D that launched back in November 2024,