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AMD found that HandBrake was leaving high-core-count Threadripper CPUs underused during transcoding, sometimes losing up to 60% performance instead of scaling. Its fix, now merged into HandBrake 1.11.0 and later, delivers gains of up to 181% on Threadripper PRO 9995WX and 215% on Threadripper 7980X systems, with no workflow changes required from users.

The ROG Strix B850-F Gaming WiFi7 NEO brings PCIe 5.0, WiFi 7 and strong power delivery to a B-series board. We tested it with a Ryzen 7 9850X3D and RTX 5080 to see if it delivers X870-class behavior without the price.

The AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D pairs Zen 5 with 3D V-Cache for gaming. We benchmarked seven titles, frame times and synthetics on an RTX 5080 rig to see if the smoothness justifies the premium.