We’ve heard the rumors and leaks, but now it’s officially… well, official: AMD announced the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 “Dual Edition.” Yes, that is a real name of a real product, and no, I don’t know why it needs “Dual Edition” when there’s already a “2” after X3D. The actual story here is way more interesting: this is basically the 9950X3D taken to the next level by giving 3D V-Cache to all cores across both CCDs. Previously, only one CCD (so half the cores) got the extra cache, which helped performance but also created some annoying scheduling/optimal-core weirdness. With the 9950X3D2, all cores are finally equal, which should get rid of those handling issues and deliver extra performance regardless of which cores a task lands on. AMD is claiming a massive 28 MB of cache in total, but I also temper expectations: cache only goes so far before other bottlenecks show up, and plenty of games don’t even care beyond eight cores on a single CCD. That’s also why AMD weirdly didn’t focus much on gaming in the announcement and instead highlighted gains in various non-gaming workloads. Pricing isn’t confirmed yet, but when the non-dual 9950X3D is already $700, you can guess where this is headed—especially with a 200W TDP that’s going to demand a real cooler.