Back at CES [1]AMD announced the Ryen 7 9850X3D as a faster sibling to the [2]Ryzen 7 9800X3D . Today they have announced the suggested price for this 3D V-Cache desktop processor and confirmation of its availability starting on 29 January.

AMD announced today that the Ryzen 7 9850X3D will come with an SEP price of $499 USD ahead of its 29 January launch. As of writing the Ryzen 7 9800X3D is priced around $469 USD and the Ryzen 7 9900X3D at around $569, so this is a nice mid-point between the two or for those that typically budget around $500 USD for a processor.

The Ryzen 7 9850X3D brings a 400MHz improvement to its boost clock and is focused on being the "world's fastest" gaming processor with the additional uplift over the 9800X3D and already these Zen 5 3D V-Cache CPUs typically outpacing Intel's Core Ultra 9 285K Arrow Lake.

We'll see soon enough how this 8-core / 16-thread AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D performs under Linux with its 104MB of total cache and 120 Watt TDP.



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-ryzen-ai-400-9850x3d

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-ryzen-7-9800x3d-linux