AMD's Ryzen 9 7950X3D and the somewhat less-popular Ryzen 9 7900X3D are currently AMD's top-tier gaming CPUs that also double as some of the most efficient CPUs in the market. That makes them one of the most premium choices for gaming as well as content creation in today's highly competitive world. AMD's AM5 socket is a new entrant in a market where Intel's more mature Z690 and subsequent Z790 chipsets are far more established, having pushed both DDR5 and PCI-E Gen 5 last year.