both Intel’s Raptor Lake and AMD’s Ryzen 7000 series family of processors and technologies quite extensively over the past few months, and by now you probably have a pretty good idea where they stand against each other. However, within each camp, there are special edition processors that call out to a niche audience. In AMD’s case, it is a gaming-oriented variant with a 3D V-cache design that was originally introduced with the Ryzen 5000 series and has made a return in the Ryzen 7000 series. For Intel, it is the handpicked KS processors that are binned to be able to reach 6GHz. In this feature, we take a look at both the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D and Intel Core i9-13900KS to determine if they are worth the hype over their contemporary
