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AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D Pricing and Specifications
|
CPU |
Street (MSRP) |
Arch |
Cores / Threads (P+E) |
P-Core Base / Boost Clock (GHz) |
E-Core Base / Boost Clock (GHz) |
Cache (L2/L3) |
TDP / PBP or MTP |
Memory |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Ryzen 9 9950X3D |
$699 |
Zen 5 X3D |
16 / 32 |
4.3 / 5.7 |
— |
144 MB (16+128) |
170W / 230W |
DDR5-5600 |
|
$740 ($699) |
Zen 4 X3D |
16 / 32 |
4.2 / 5.7 |
— |
144MB (16+128) |
120W / 162W |
DDR5-5200 |
|
|
$545 ($599) |
Zen 5 |
16 / 32 |
4.3 / 5.7 |
— |
80MB (16+64) |
170W / 230W |
DDR5-5600 |
|
|
$620 ($589) |
Arrow Lake |
24 / 24 (8+16) |
3.7 / 5.7 |
3.2 / 4.6 |
76MB (40+36) |
125W / 250W |
CUDIMM DDR5-6400 / DDR5-5600 |
|
|
Ryzen 9 9900X3D |
$599 |
Zen 5 X3D |
12 / 24 |
4.4 / 5.5 |
— |
140MB (12+128) |
120W / 162W |
DDR5-5600 |
|
$740 ($599) |
Zen 4 X3D |
12 / 24 |
4.4 / 5.6 |
— |
140MB (12+128) |
120W / 162W |
DDR5-5200 |
|
|
Ryzen 7 9800X3D |
$480 |
Zen 5 X3D |
8 / 16 |
4.7 / 5.2 |
— |
104MB (8+96) |
120W / 162W |
DDR5-5600 |
|
$450 ($449) |
Zen 4 X3D |
8 / 16 |
4.2 / 5.0 |
— |
104MB (8+96) |
120W / 162W |
DDR5-5200 |
|
|
$380 ($469) |
Zen 5 |
12 / 24 |
4.4 / 5.6 |
— |
76MB (12+64) |
120W / 162W |
DDR5-5600 |
|
|
$365 ($394) / $339 ($379) |
Arrow Lake |
20 / 20 (8+12 |
3.9 / 5.5 |
3.3 / 4.6 |
66MB (36+30) |
125W / 250W |
CUDIMM DDR5-6400 / DDR5-5600 |
|
|
$289 ($329) |
Zen 5 |
8 / 16 |
3.8 / 5.5 |
— |
40MB (8+32) |
65W / 88W / 105W |
DDR5-5600 |
As with the prior-gen Ryzen 9 7000X3D chips, the new 9900X3D uses two compute dies, with one die featuring a 3D-stacked V-Cache chiplet that increases L3 cache capacity to 128 MB. The 9900X3D’s standard chiplet boosts to higher frequencies to deliver more performance in both single- and multi-threaded tasks. Overall, the Ryzen 9 9900X3D is built on the same foundation as the Ryzen 9 9900X; it just has a single L3 SRAM chiplet placed under one of the compute dies.
The Zen 5-powered Ryzen 9 9900X3D has 12 active cores and 24 threads spread evenly across the two compute chiplets (six active cores and two deactivated cores per chiplet). AMD’s newly-revamped chipset drivers, which we covered in depth here, do a better job of pinning the gaming code to the single compute die with the cache.
While gaming, this technique essentially creates a six-core 12-thread processor with 3D V-Cache. Meanwhile, both the 9950X3D and 9800X3D operate as eight-core 16-thread chips while gaming, so they obviously have an inherent advantage in gaming performance, which is reflected in our benchmarks.
The 9900X3D’s other cores kick in during productivity work, giving you 12 cores and 24 threads to chew through more computationally demanding work faster than you can with the eight-core 9800X3D. That said, the 9950X3D remains the king of the X3D hill for productivity work with its 16-core 32-thread design.
The 9900X3D has 140 MB of total cache and a peak boost clock rate of 5.5 GHz, a 100 MHz decline compared to the prior-gen Ryzen 9 7900X3D. Both chips have the same 5.5 GHz base clock. Like its predecessor, the 9900X3D has a 120W TDP and a 162W PPT (maximum power draw). We have extensive power testing on the following pages as well.
Let’s move on to the gaming, productivity, and workstation benchmarks on the following pages.
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