- ASRock has listed the unreleased Ryzen 9 X3D CPUs on its web site
- The Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9900X3D seem on the checklist of supported chips for AM5 motherboards
- This preparation work being put in place might be a touch that these processors are inbound quickly
AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9900X3D might be launching quickly, or not less than a motherboard maker has dropped a touch that this may be the case.
VideoCardz was notably hawk-eyed in noticing that ASRock has up to date its checklist of supported CPUs for motherboards with the AM5 chipset, and that the Ryzen 9950X3D and 9900X3D are each now current on that checklist.
No different motherboard makers have carried out this (on the time of writing), however the truth that ASRock has moved to take action now might be learn as a suggestion that these processors are happening sale imminently.
Thus far, all AMD has carried out is revealed the flagship X3D chip and its Ryzen 9 sibling (at CES 2025), with no indication of a launch date, and moreover we don’t have any pricing particulars but.
Evaluation: Extra X3D choices
There have been rumors that AMD was aiming for a late January launch for its new X3D chips, the Ryzen 9 flavors that’ll be a part of the prevailing Ryzen 9800X3D which was launched final yr. Nonetheless, with just a few days of the month left now, it’s feeling unlikely that this might nonetheless occur.
It’s not inconceivable, thoughts, and the looks of the Ryzen 9950X3D and 9900X3D on the ASRock web site not less than signifies {that a} launch must be coming quickly. If it isn’t, why would ASRock hassle getting these listings in place now? Nicely, this might be a easy case of overpreparing, however then once more…
I’d be shocked if the launch of the brand new Ryzen 9 X3D fashions wasn’t coming in February, and presumably early within the month. We might not get to see pricing till AMD publicizes the approaching launch, however the MSRPs are going to be watched with lots of curiosity.
The Ryzen 9800X3D is a superb chip that’s offered very properly with PC players, and continues to be tough to seek out at its MSRP (definitely within the US, the place you’re extra like $600 for this CPU from third-party market sellers on the likes of Newegg or Amazon, on the time of writing).
The Ryzen 9950X3D and 9900X3D might provide a superb various for these trying to find a 3D V-Cache chip which isn’t simply good for gaming, however for heavyweight utilization – with the 9900X3D presumably not weighing in at way more than the talked about third-party value for the 9800X3D (in principle, anyway).
Nonetheless, these inbound CPUs might find yourself pricier than anticipated – which is what occurred with the 9800X3D – and that continues to be a priority for me. Significantly with the flagship Ryzen 9950X3D, the place AMD may determine to essentially cost a premium.
AMD just lately defined the relative strengths of those Ryzen 9 fashions versus the prevailing Ryzen 9800X3D, and the way the brand new CPUs would be the equal of the latter for gaming – however received’t be higher than it, till you look exterior of gaming situations that’s, the place the Ryzen 9 silicon actually pulls out the stops.
These processors are positively extra area of interest affairs than the Ryzen 9800X3D, however that stated, with the turbulent launch that Intel’s rival Arrow Lake desktop CPUs have had so far, I count on the brand new X3D fashions to be comparatively widespread – pricing dependent, as famous – and maybe flip up comparatively quickly. Certainly, AMD has beforehand blamed the inventory scarcity of the 9800X3D on Intel’s ‘horrible’ Core Extremely 200S launch spiking demand for the Ryzen CPU.