AMD’s upcoming Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition CPU is up for pre-order in China ahead of its 22 April launch, with Chinese retailers getting there first.
The Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition is pitched as the chip that finally brings dual 3D V-Cache dies to the mainstream AM5 platform. AMD has confirmed an MSRP of $899, making it the most expensive AM5 CPU so far.
While global retailers have listed the CPU, the official AMD store on JD.com has opened pre-orders and requires a ¥100 (€12.44) deposit. That ¥100 deposit turns into a “¥300 amount” (€37.32) towards the final price.
Official pricing is expected to land around ¥6000 (€746.46), and AMD reckons early birds save around $30 US. Deposits have to be paid by 22 April, just hours before official sales.
AMD is dangling a few extras for pre-order punters, including a ¥100 E-Card (€12.44) for posting a review. There is a lucky draw thrown in for a custom AMD coffee cup and an AMD-branded electric screwdriver.
AMD has stuffed more benchmarks into the JD listing, claiming up to 63 per cent higher performance than the 9950X3D in SPEC POISSON (2D Equation Solving). It claims 26 per cent higher in OpenFOAM (Fluid Dynamics), with the rest showing a six to 13 per cent uplift.
In its SPEC CPU breakdown, AMD lists Financial Services at 106 per cent, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning at 110 per cent, Energy at 113 per cent and CPU at 108 per cent. LAMMPS, SRMP and MFEM sit around 110 to 112 per cent, Numerical Science & Data Analysis hits 113 per cent.
The big swings are saved for OpenFOAM at 126 per cent and POISSON 2D Poisson Distribution Solver at 163 per cent. This is the sort of niche number-flexing you do when gaming gains are going to be modest.
Nobody expects the 9950X3D2 to transform gaming versus the 9850X3D or 9950X3D, and AMD’s own framing leans that way. The Ryzen 7 9850X3D is still being waved about as the fastest gaming chip, while this one is meant for simulation, rendering and financial services jobs that can chew on a 208MB cache pool.
