AMD's Ryzen 7 9850X3D tipped for modest price hike — early listings point to $500 list for refreshed Zen 5 CPU
A new tip suggests the pricing of AMD's Ryzen 7 9850X3D will be close to the 9800X3D. Listings show a $511.4 ask for the new chip, but no official MSRP is mentioned. Running a few calculations gives us a value of around $499 as the supposed list price.
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CES 2026 is right around the corner, which means it might only be a matter of days before we find out the official specs for AMD's new Ryzen 9000 series processors. The company is reportedly planning at least two refreshed X3D SKUs: a dual-cache Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 and a more modest Ryzen 7 9850X3D. We've already seen preliminary product pages for the latter pointing toward a very high $550-600 ask, but tipster @momomo_us has just spotted new listings, suggesting something far more in line with expectations.
As for the processor itself, the 9850X3D shares the same 8-core, 16-thread config as its namesake brethren. Compared to the 9800X3D, it has a 400 MHz higher boost clock, going from 5.2 GHz to 5.6 GHz. Everything else remains the same, including the 96 MB L3 cache (32 MB L3 + 64 MB X3D), and even the power limits. It will reportedly succeed AMD's existing gaming champ and the top choice in our best CPUs roundup — the 9800X3D. That CPU launched at $479, a $30 increment over the previous-gen 7800X3D, so a $500 price tag (or somewhere around that) seems reasonable.
The other X3D chip AMD apparently has in store for CES 2026 is the aforementioned Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 featuring a monstrous 192 MB of L3 cache split across both 8-core CCDs. Compared to the 9850X3D, this CPU is much more elusive, and we have no idea about its price, but it did appear in a couple of early benchmarks recently.
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AMD Ryzen 9000 Pricing (unconfirmed)
SKU
Core Count
Cache
Clock Speeds
TDP
MSRP
Ryzen 9 9950X3D2
16 Cores / 32 Threads
192 MB L3 + 16 MB L2
4.3 GHz base / 5.6 GHz boost
200W
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Ryzen 9 9950X3D
16 Cores / 32 Threads
