Alienware Area-51 Desktops Get a Ryzen X3D2 Glow-Up This Week

Alienware volition commencement selling its Area-51 gaming PCs with the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2, starting connected Wednesday, April 22. It's the archetypal large update to Alienware's AMD spot offerings since the institution began selling Area-51 desktops with Ryzen X3D chips backmost successful November.

The caller spot is precise akin to its predecessor, the 9950X3D, but for a notable betterment successful L2 and L3 cache, wherever computers store often accessed data. The 9950X3D2 features 208MB of AMD's 3D V-cache, versus 144MB successful its predecessor, the 9950X3D. The 9950X3D already astir ever outperformed competing processors successful our reappraisal past year; a cache bump similar this astir apt widens that gap.

More cache tin mean much responsive show for gaming, rendering, and compiling, but the other headroom comes astatine a cost; the X3D2 volition besides gully a just spot much powerfulness astatine 200W versus the 170 watts of the X3D. The caller CPU besides has a somewhat little boost timepiece velocity of 5.6GHz, versus the 5.7GHz of the erstwhile chip, but that volition hardly interaction gaming performance.

Alienware did not denote pricing for the caller configuration, but we've asked and volition update if we get a effect earlier the caller enactment goes unrecorded tomorrow. For reference, the minimum spec for an Area-51 desktop with a Ryzen 9 9950X3D costs $4,099.99, truthful this caller exemplary volition astir apt beryllium a spot much expensive.

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