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AMD announced its two flagship Ryzen 9000-series X3D processors here at CES 2025 in Las Vegas, with the 16-core 32-thread Ryzen 9 9950X3D leading the way with the potent Zen 5 architecture paired with AMD’s dominating game-boosting X3D technology to provide 128MB of L3 cache, all of which AMD says makes it the world’s best CPU for gaming and creator workloads. AMD says this chip easily beats Intel’s competing Arrow Lake flagship in gaming by 20% and delivers within 1% the gaming performance of the current world’s fastest gaming CPU, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. That comes at the cost of a 50W generational increase in TDP, though, but that extra power budget will also help the chip score higher in our CPU benchmark hierarchy. AMD also has a new Ryzen 9 9900X3D coming to market that slots in with 12 cores and 24 threads paired with 128MB of L3 cache.

 

[Zathalus]

$120 more for double the cores. Not bad.

 

[lachesis]

$599? I didn't hear this price from the press conference... If true, pretty dope.

 

[LectureMaster]

 

[LiquidMetal14]

If this had significantly better gaming perf then it would be a no brainer CPU for the high end. Other than that, the 9800X3D seems like the way for gamers and the 9950X3D should be the go to for the prosumer.

 

[winjer]

That 9950X3D is going to be a beast for gaming and productivity.

 

[M1chl]

In for 9950X3D and waiting on 5090 pre-order, this is better than E3

 

[Kilau]

Well I was torn between the 9800X3D and the 9950X so this seals it.

 

[KellyNole]

Well I was torn between the 9800X3D and the 9950X so this seals it.

Are we going to be twins again ? Lol.

 

[Pedro Motta]

That 9950X3D is going to be a beast for gaming and productivity.

Time to retire my 5950X.

 

[Dirk Benedict]

What?
I wanted to wait for AM6... Fucking Lisa Su, man!

 

[Kilau]

Are we going to be twins again ? Lol.

 

[//DEVIL//]

Ill stick to my 9800X3D thank you very much. see you in 2 years with the 10800X3D.

 

[Xyphie]

$599? I didn't hear this price from the press conference... If true, pretty dope.

I think it's just OP doing his usual thing and adding incorrect info to the title.

Rationally why would they price it at $599 (which is the same price of the non-X3D model) when the $479 8-core model is sold out everywhere? If anything the 8-core model is currently underpriced.

 

[Eliciel]

In for 9950X3D and waiting on 5090 pre-order, this is better than E3

In for liver transplant

 

[DenchDeckard]

Does this have the cache on both clusters so should I get the 9950x3d? I haven't installed my 9800x3d and could switch out.

 

[lachesis]

I think it's just OP doing his usual thing and adding incorrect info to the title.

Rationally why would they price it at $599 (which is the same price of the non-X3D model) when the $479 8-core model is sold out everywhere? If anything the 8-core model is currently underpriced.

Thought it's too well priced. I think original 9950 was launched at 599, then they priced it down IIRC... My guess was $649 at the very least, to $699 - at latter being the more realistic figure (as AMD, like Nvidia is dominating the gaming CPU sector and Intel really has no alternative at this point) and $649 or lower would be my wish....

 

[Haint]

I think it's just OP doing his usual thing and adding incorrect info to the title.

Rationally why would they price it at $599 (which is the same price of the non-X3D model) when the $479 8-core model is sold out everywhere? If anything the 8-core model is currently underpriced.

One potential reason is that the regular chips are selling like diarrhea dog shit, and they recognize the X3Ds are what the market wants. If they have the capacity and demand they may be pivoting towards volume rather than margins. They probably expect Intel to start fireselling their chips soon as well.

 

[Diseased Yak]

*Looks at perfectly fine 7800X3D system he just built almost exactly one year ago*

 

[M1chl]

In for liver transplant

Already got one, if you don't reference my story (posted here) and posted this just for laughs, then its reasonably funny

 

[Radical_3d]

Their CPU division on the other hand…

 

[Codeblew]

My next build is going to have a 9950x3d. I just need to figure out what card to get with it. I don't need a 5090 (or want to pay that crazy price) but would like at least 24gb to run some local LLM's.

 

[diffusionx]

Price of this high-end hardware is getting nuts.

 

[Zathalus]

Does this have the cache on both clusters so should I get the 9950x3d? I haven't installed my 9800x3d and could switch out.

Just the one. Gaming performance will be almost identical. This is just for those that want the best gaming and productivity in one CPU.

 

[winjer]

Does this have the cache on both clusters so should I get the 9950x3d? I haven't installed my 9800x3d and could switch out.

It only has the 3DV cache on one ccd.
The rumors were false.

 

[DenchDeckard]

Just the one. Gaming performance will be almost identical. This is just for those that want the best gaming and productivity in one CPU.

I've never had amd before for my own builds. I'd heard that on certain games it messes up having it on one.

Is that not true. My builds for a front room gaming console type build and a sim rig so I doubt I'd actually need the extra cores. I do music production and streaming sometimes though.

 

[Pagusas]

one ccd cache? fuck no.

 

[Sanepar]

What?
I wanted to wait for AM6... Fucking Lisa Su, man!

Am6 will come only in 2028. Zen6 will be am5 wait for it.

 

[Hohenheim]

I do music production and streaming sometimes though.

This is what makes me consider it too. Music production.
But my production is working fine with a Zen 4 7600 cpu now, so I doubt a 9950x3d will make much difference from a 9800x3d for me when it comes to music production.
As for gaming in 4K there will probably be no difference.

 

[Ironbunny]

Dual CCD with both having X3D and I'd be interested. Glad I went the 9800X3D route.

 

[funking giblet]

Dual CCD with X3D will have horrible Cache Coherency issues I'd imagine.

 

[Randall365]

Goody - 1 extra fps at qhd uw 1440p.

 

[OverHeat]

599$????

 

[Eliciel]

Already got one, if you don't reference my story (posted here) and posted this just for laughs, then its reasonably funny

I did not reference any story as I am not aware of it and this was trying to be funny for he laughs. I was sitting in train and I just wanted to be part of a group making fun of high prices in a meta humor way we learned to love in the comments sections. I'm a simple man, all my empathy goes to you if this touched a real world situation.

 

[SolidQ]