Back in January at CES was the [1]Ryzen 9 9000X3D and Ryzen 9 9950X3D announcement while today AMD officially confirmed the release date and pricing on these new Zen 5 desktop CPUs with 3D V-Cache.

This shouldn't really come as much of a surprise given recent leaks/reports, but AMD officially announced this morning that these new Ryzen 9 9900X3D and Ryzen 9 9950X3D processors will be available starting on 12 March. Next Wednesday these Zen 5 X3D processors should be hitting shelves.

The Ryzen 9 9900X3D 12-core processor is to be listed for $599 USD while the flagship Ryzen 9 9950X3D 16-core processor is to be priced at $699 USD. These complement the [2]Ryzen 7 9800X3D 8-core processor that debuted last November.

Stay tuned for Linux benchmarking and performance metrics for the Ryzen 9 9900X3D and Ryzen 9 9950X3D processors on Phoronix once these new CPUs are available. It will be very interesting to see how these new X3D parts perform under Linux especially now having the [3]AMD 3D V-Cache Optimizer driver and other recent improvements to the Linux kernel.



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-ryzen-9950x3d-rdna4-ai-max

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

[3] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-x86-Platform-Drivers