Following retailer listings popping up over the weekend, AMD has made the price of its upcoming Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 official. The CPU has a suggested retail price of $899, AMD's David McAfee announced today on X. That's $200 more than the Ryzen 9 9950X3D released at, and around $230 more than what that chip is selling for now. The Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 is set to arrive at retailers on April 22, and it will slot into existing motherboards with the AM5 socket.
This is AMD's first dual-cache X3D CPU, where it uses its 3D V-Cache packaging on both eight-core CCDs. Previous chips like the Ryzen 9 9950X3D only feature stacked cache on a single CCD, mainly to keep gaming performance in check, as inter-CCD communication can cause big spikes in latency.
CPU |
Street (MSRP) |
Arch |
Cores / Threads (P+E) |
P-Core Base / Boost Clock (GHz) |
Cache (L2/L3) |
TDP |
Memory |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 |
$899 |
Zen 5 X3D |
16 / 32 |
4.3 / 5.6 |
208MB (16+192) |
200W |
DDR5-5600 |
Ryzen 9 9950X3D |
$699 |
Zen 5 X3D |
16 / 32 |
4.3 / 5.7 |
144MB (16+128) |
170W |
DDR5-5600 |
$545 ($599) |
Zen 5 |
16 / 32 |
4.3 / 5.7 |
80MB (16+64) |
170W |
DDR5-5600 |
|
Ryzen 9 9900X3D |
$599 |
Zen 5 X3D |
12 / 24 |
4.4 / 5.5 |
140 (12+128) |
120W |
DDR5-5600 |
Ryzen 7 9800X3D |
$480 |
Zen 5 X3D |
8 / 16 |
4.7 / 5.2 |
104MB (8+96) |
120W |
DDR5-5600 |
$380 ($469) |
Zen 5 |
12 / 24 |
4.4 / 5.6 |
76MB (12+64) |
120W |
DDR5-5600 |
|
$289 ($329) |
Zen 5 |
8 / 16 |
3.8 / 5.5 |
40MB (8+32) |
65W |
DDR5-5600 |
Although X3D chips like the Ryzen 7 9850X3D are the best CPUs for gaming thanks to their chart-topping frame rates, AMD is billing the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 as a workstation-level chip that is "built for developers and content creators tackling complex workloads and massive datasets." To that end, AMD hasn't shared gaming benchmarks for the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 yet, instead focusing on application performance.
You can see the early results in the chart above, where AMD claims up to a 13% improvement in data science workloads via SPECWorkstation 4, and about a 5% to 8% jump in other applications. Although we don't have gaming numbers yet, there's a good chance we won't see a significant uplift. Crossing the CCDs is already an issue AMD has had to deal with when it comes to the Ryzen 9 9950X3D and Ryzen 9 9900X3D, so we don't expect much on the gaming front.
It won't be long until we know for sure where the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 lands. The chip is set to hit retailers on April 22, and our test benches are already running at full tilt to see where it ranks among our CPU benchmark hierarchy.
