AMD was in the news quite a bit over the last week or two with stories spanning multiple aspects of its many products. Now, while we already have coverage of the convoluted happenings regarding recent driver updates and openSIL support, which incidentally marked the first official confirmation for Zen 6 Medusa, as well as the launch of the Radeon AI PRO R9700 with 32 GB GDDR6, and unfortunately, more reports of melted 12VHPWR connectors, there’s plenty more to cover, so let’s dig in.
It’s raining money!
It’s no secret that PC enthusiasts are overwhelmingly happy with AMD’s X3D lineup, but its products in the enterprise and data center sectors are also doing exceedingly well. AMD’s latest Q3 25 financials report indicates an impressive YoY gain for the company, and while many await the launch of new products, its current offerings are generating profitable revenue streams.
“We delivered record quarterly revenue of $9.2 billion, up 36% year-over-year, and generated record free cash flow, reflecting the strength of our leadership portfolio and disciplined execution,”
– Jean Hu, AMD executive vice president, chief financial officer and treasurer
Ryzen AI Max+ 388 and 392
AMD debuted its flagship Ryzen AI Max +395 16C/32T APU (which, btw, is getting used in an upcoming Ayaneo NEXT 2 gaming handheld) this year and followed it with the AI Max +385 and 390. Now there’s the Ryzen AI Max + 388 and 392on the way to further fill out the Halo Strix family of APUs. Per VideoCardz, both the 388 and 392 APUs will feature the full Radeon 8060s RDNA 3.5 graphics solution with 40 compute units. The AI Max+ 392 is a 12C/24T processor with 76 MB total cache and a 5.0 GHz boost clock, while the AI Max+ 388 looks to be a solid, presumably more budget-friendly, 8C/16T processor with 40 MB total cache, also with a 5.0 GHz boost clock.
Rumored Ryzen 7 9700X3D Benchmarks
Update: The User who uploaded the benchmark explains on Reddit that they and their friends accidentally faked the benchmark. There are many more details to be found on the updated post, which includes the link to TPU with the PassMark image shown below.
“TL:DR – My friends and I were playing around with Linux and accidentally submitted a 9700X3D score, which got written up in the news. I’d like to set the record straight: The 9700X3D isn’t real, and we should all learn from this. Remember, all benchmarks can be faked!“
Original story: Now this one should be tagged as a rumor because the original Videocardz link has gone poof, but not before TechPowerUp managed to report on it. It is worth noting that fake CPU scores have been reported in the past for benchmark results. As such, a purported Zen 5 8C/16T CPU clocked at 5.8 GHz was tested using PassMark. This “9700X3D” had 96 MB L3 cache and scored 40,438 points in the multithreaded test and 4,687 in single-thread benchmarking. Some have speculated that this processor was overclocked during testing.
The X3D lineup is king as it outsells Intel’s entire CPU product stack on Amazon
Three generations on, and water is wet as AMD’s X3D lineup continues to be the best seller among PC enthusiasts. Regardless of model, PC users have voted with their wallets since the debut of the X3D lineup with the Ryzen 7 5800X3D and continue to do so with the current AM5 offerings. A new report by TechEpiphany (via TechPowerUp) shows AMD’s processors crushing Intel on Amazon.
🇺🇸 CPU Retail Sales Amazon US – October 2025
— TechEpiphany (@TechEpiphanyYT) November 7, 2025
Total AMD domination
ℹ️ Units
AMD: 52,800, 83.80%
Intel: 10,200, 16.20%
ℹ️ Revenue
AMD: $14,364,406.50 (82.02%)
Intel: $3,147,928.00 (17.98%)
ℹ️ Average Selling Price (ASP)
AMD: $272.05
Intel: $308.62 pic.twitter.com/vYWIywyHCn
Discussion (3 replies)
Join Discussion →AMD seems to be winning on price to performance, performance, and price... it's amazing really. And it just shows that having the halo gaming CPU draws enthusiasts to your entire product stack. AND... having solid gaming CPU's also makes those same people willing to look at AMD's enterprise offerings. A win win for AMD. And really... AMD should invest some of that money in Intel. That way when intel stabilizes and gets competitive it on the back end still benefits AMD. Just saying...
AMD with Ryzen, after the horrible Bulldozer-based era: [URL unfurl="true"]https://i.makeagif.com/media/9-08-2024/Bqjcl3.gif[/URL]
AMD has the fundamentals of a really competitive GPU stack with RDNA4 and eventually RDNA5/UDNA/Whatever.
They just have to have the confidence in their products.
They should target a stack up to the xx80/$1000 tier every gen, and if they have a salvage monster compute card go for the xx90 gold.