AMD’s long awaited high end desktop processor is seemingly confirmed to sell for at least $999 in the U.S. following early listings from across the border. There’s never been any doubt that the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition Desktop Processor would sell for a premium price, but the question has been how high that would be. Well, if advance listings from Canadian retailers are anything to go by, where some are offering it at $1,374 CAD and that converts to ~$990, the assumption is that on April 22, it will launch in the U.S. at $999.
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Meanwhile, AMD has posted an official product page Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition Desktop Processor, featuring full specifications for its first dual CCD package to feature dual 3D cache. For those wondering, it’s official, the 9950X3D2 is unlocked for overclocking, but those looking to push past its 5.6 GHz boost clock will most assuredly need liquid cooling, as already recommended by AMD, for best results.
- Former Codename: Granite Ridge AM5
- Processor Architecture: Zen 5
- Number of CPU Cores:16
- Multithreading (SMT): Yes
- Number of Threads: 32
- Max. Boost Clock: Up to 5.6 GHz
- Base Clock:4.3 GHz
- L1 Cache: 1280 KB
- L2 Cache: 16 MB
- L3 Cache: 192 MB
- Default TDP:200W
- Processor Technology for CPU Cores: TSMC 4nm FinFET
- Processor Technology for I/O Die: TSMC 6nm FinFET
- Package Die Count: 3
- Unlocked for Overclocking: Yes
- AMD EXPO™ Memory Overclocking Technology: Yes
- Precision Boost Overdrive: Yes
- Curve Optimizer Voltage Offsets: Yes
- AMD Ryzen™ Master Support: Yes
- Supporting Chipsets: A620 , X670E , X670 , B650E , B650 , X870E , X870 , B840 , B850
- CPU Boost Technology: Precision Boost 2
- Instruction Set: x86-64
- Supported Extensions: AES , AVX512 , AVX2 , AVX , FMA3 , MMX-plus , SSE2 , SSE4.2 , SSE4A , SSE4.1 , SSE3 , SSSE3 , SSE , x86-64
- Thermal Solution (PIB): Not Included
- Recommended Cooler: Liquid cooler recommended for optimal performance
- Max. Operating Temperature (Tjmax): 95°C
- *OS Support: Windows 11 – 64-Bit Edition, Windows 10 – 64-Bit Edition, RHEL x86 64-Bit, Ubuntu x86 64-Bit
- Connectivity: Native USB 3.2 Gen 2 (10Gbps) 4, Native USB 2.0 (480Mbps) 1
- PCI Express® Version: PCIe® 5.0
- Native PCIe® Lanes (Total/Usable): 28, 24
- NVMe Support: Boot , RAID0 , RAID1 , RAID5 , RAID10
- System Memory Type: DDR5
- Memory Channels: 2
- Max. Memory: 256 GB
- System Memory Subtype: UDIMM
- Max Memory Speed: 2x1R DDR5-5600, 2x2R DDR5-5600, 4x1R DDR5-3600, 4x2R DDR5-3600
- ECC Support: Yes (Requires mobo support)
- Graphics Model: AMD Radeon™ Graphics
- Graphics Core Count: 2
- Graphics Frequency: 2200 MHz
- USB Type-C® DisplayPort™ Alternate Mode: Yes
- AMD Secure Processor: Yes
- AMD Platform Secure Boot: Yes
- Windows Secure Boot: Yes
- UEFI Secure Boot: Yes
- Windows Device Guard: Yes
- Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention (SMEP): Yes
- Guest Mode Execution (GMET) Trap: Yes
- Virtualization-Based Security (VBS): Yes
- Windows Secured-Core PC: Yes
- Firmware TPM: Yes
- AMD-V (SVM): Yes
- AMD AVIC (Interrupt Virtualization): Yes
- AMD-Vi (I/O MMU Virtualization): Yes
- Second Level Address Translation (SLAT): Yes
- Advanced Encryption Standard New Instructions (AES-NI): Yes
- AMD Enhanced Virus Protection (NX bit): Yes
- AMD Shadow Stack: Yes
Discussion (10 replies)
Join Discussion →That's a bit redonkulous but WTF do I know. Ram prices are at stupid levels with everything else so why not CPU's!
9950x3d is 960 CAD$ right now. Nearly 1400$ no thanks.
I have a hard time seeing more than a $100-150 premium over the standard X3D....
Intel is reportedly planning a CPU price increase; I would not be surprised if AMD follows.
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Man... my venerably 9950x3d is going to need to last a while... (rubs computer) You're good baby... you're good... daddy loves you.
Honestly I think if my computer shat the bed right now, I'd just get a Mac Mini so I could get work stuff done at home and call it quits. Between Mining Bubbles 1 and 2, Covid, and now this AI crap, and the market continually getting smaller and more exclusive and expensive and pushed by both artificial and real scarcity. This hobby just doesn't seem to be going in a sustainable direction and it's becoming less and less fun as the barriers to entry keep getting higher, which just raises the stakes and make it less fun to push boundaries and risk the hardware.
I mean, it was never free or cheap, per say, but I can remember dumpster diving for old Sun and NeXT Workstations when I was in college, and going to swap meets in the late 90's and buying everything I needed to build a budget gamer rig for cheap, and taking it home and building my own watercooling crap and not being afraid to reach for crazy overclocks, and if I toasted a $55 Duron or $75 budget motherboard, it wasn't an entire paycheck (or more) down the drain. MSRP wasn't a "thank god I found it" but a ceiling that almost no one ever paid. Building a gaming rig today almost requires a HELOC or signing your soul away to be a "influencer" -- and that's assuming you can still even get availability at ~any~ price. And it's not like the used hardware or dumpster diving is a viable avenue really either - everything is commodity laptops or AIOs or junk office dumb terminals.. or mobile phones. Not a lot of parts that can be stripped any longer.
AI may be the next thing that changes the world. I'm thinking more and more about getting out the "Get off my Lawn, I still have dial-up" sign and just sticking my fingers in my ears and ignoring it entirely.
Gawd damnit, stop making me nostalgic for the old days that we once took for granted. The way things should still be.
We're headed for the Cyberpunk/Shadowrun netrunner/decker future. But instead of starting out for some great moral cause... we will be in it to game on the best hardware! lol.
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That price is still kinda meh. But hey if people really want it, it's there! Enjoy your 3-5% increase in performance (or whatever)!
From a strictly-academic point-of-view it is an interesting CPU. Otherwise, meh whatever.