AMD has been teasing the arrival of its new flagship gaming CPU for a while, however has now reportedly revealed the exact date whenever you’ll be capable to purchase the brand new 16-core monster. The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D launch date is rumored to be March 12.
The information of the arrival of AMD‘s new greatest gaming CPU contender comes direct from the JD.com on-line retailer operated by AMD China. Nevertheless, the listings have now disappeared and AMD hasn’t in any other case made a press release in regards to the launch, so we’re treating this information as a rumor for now.
The rumored launch date was noticed by common tech leak supply, @harukaze5719 on X (previously Twitter). In a publish they present a screenshot of a web page displaying launch particulars of the CPU, accompanied with the phrases “R9 9950X3D, R9 9900X3D Obtainable on March 12.”
In the meantime, one other tech leaker, @9550pro, posted pricing for the chips, additionally sourced from JD.com. It exhibits the worth of the 9950X3D and its 12-core sibling, the 9900X3D, being set at 5599RMB and 5299RMB, which converts to roughly $772 and $730 respectively. If these costs are correct, that will make them exceptionally costly CPUs. That mentioned, the non-X3D Ryzen 9 9950X does value $549, so we’d anticipate the X3D model to value no less than $600.
The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D was formally introduced again in January as a brand new 16-core equal to what has proved to be the present quickest gaming CPU on the planet, as you may see in our Ryzen 7 9800X3D assessment.
That chip solely has eight cores, so the brand new chip doubles this depend to make for a much more highly effective processor, relating to multi-core workloads. Furthermore, AMD proclaimed the 9950X3D to be “the world’s greatest gaming processor.” To that finish, the 9950X3D additionally comes with a quicker clock pace than the 9800X3D, hitting a peak increase clock pace of 5.7GHz, in comparison with simply 5.2GHz for the 9800X3D.
Nevertheless, there’s a catch to the 9950X3D, which is that, whereas it has the identical further chip of L3 cache as different X3D chips, this cache solely sits beneath eight of its cores. This implies the opposite eight don’t get as fast entry to this huge further cache. In the meantime, it’s solely the cores that don’t have 3D V-cache that get the massive clock pace increase.
What’s the impact of this limitation? It implies that if an instruction working on one of many non-X3D cores requires some information from the super-sized shared L3 cache, it could have to attend a little bit longer to get it. In flip, this might result in slower efficiency in some eventualities. This similar downside affected the 7950X3D and it resulted in that chip having slower gaming efficiency than the 7800X3D regardless of having double the variety of cores – sadly for us, gaming is one activity that significantly advantages from the additional cache.
Nevertheless, the additional clock pace of the 9950X3D’s different eight cores will actually assist it in closely multi-threaded software program purposes, corresponding to video encoding and 3D rendering. AMD additionally lately advised us that it has a brand new X3D driver replace within the works, which it claims will scale back the latency points seen on the 7950X3D that consequence from just one chip having the additional 3D V-cache. Nevertheless, we’ll should see for ourselves once we benchmark the brand new CPU.
Nonetheless, if you happen to’re in search of a CPU that has the additional total processing energy of 16 cores however nonetheless has what needs to be among the quickest gaming efficiency out there, it’s prone to be your best option when it arrives.
Regardless of the case, for many avid gamers the 9800X3D will stay your best option for peak gaming efficiency, and will probably be one of the best worth choice too. In the event you’re in search of a brand new motherboard to go along with this nice selection of CPU, take a look at our greatest gaming motherboard information.
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