Following earlier listings, AMD has now confirmed the US $899 price tag for its Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 flagship. The new flagship CPU with dual 3D V-Cache comes with a hefty premium compared to its single 3D V-Cache counterpart, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D.
Confirmed by AMD’s VP and GM of Ryzen CPU and Radeon graphics, David McAfee, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2, which will be officially available on April 22nd, will be selling for $899, depending on the supply and demand. In case you missed it, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 is a 16-core/32-thread SKU that features dual 3D V-Cache, which means that each of the 8-core CCDs has its own cache, leaving the CPU with a total of 208MB of L2 and L3 cache. It works at 4.3GHz base and 5.6GHz Boost clocks and has a 200W TDP.
Although it should be best suited for gaming, AMD is also targeting content creators and developers, saying that it should handle complex workloads and datasets. Unfortunately, AMD has so far shared only select benchmarks, and we’ll have to wait for some official reviews to check out its gaming performance and improvements in latency due to the fact that each CCD has its own cache.
We’ll be keeping an eye on when official reviews go live, and it actually starts shipping from retailers/e-tailers.
