AMD has just announced in a press release the release of its new Ryzen 9 X3D series processors, which have every chance of becoming the best processors on the market for video games.
For those who are not familiar with these models, the X3D family is made up of processors equipped with a massive amount of L3 cache stacked vertically (hence AMD's official nomenclature, which speaks of 3D V-Cache). The main mission of this cache is to serve as an intermediary between the CPU and the RAM. With a quantity With a large L3 cache, you get lower latency and an overall performance boost, especially in multi-core applications.
These chips have traditionally delivered pretty mind-blowing gaming performance. The Ryzen 7 5800 X3D, for example, dominated their generation head and shoulders. The Ryzen 7 9800X3D has been dominating the gaming ecosystem head and shoulders since its release last November. But even its predecessors like the Ryzen 7 7800 X3D and the Ryzen 9 7950 X3D remain real atomic bombs that are still among the most powerful gaming processors on the market, well beyond Intel's latest i9-14900K.
These are therefore extremely popular models among the most demanding gamers. And inevitably, the latter are impatiently awaiting the new 9000 series models, announced at CES last January. If this is you, you will be delighted to learn that their release is now imminent: the Ryzen 9 9900X3D and Ryzen 9 9950X3D are expected on March 12th.
Power to spare
The first is a processor with 12 Zen 5 cores for 24 threads capable of reaching 5.5 GHz in turbo and equipped with 140 MB of L2/L3 cache, for a TDP of 120 W. The second pushes the envelope even further with 16 Zen 5 cores and 32 threads clocked at 5.7 GHz, all with 144 MB of cache for a monstrous TDP of 170 W.
These are therefore not the most economical chips on the market, far from it. But everything indicates that they will be perfectly capable of devouring any game raw, including the most demanding AAA on the market – provided they are supported by a high-end graphics card, of course.
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The thorny question remains, namely that of price and availability. The recommended retail prices will be $599 (~550 euros) for the Ryzen 9 9900X3D and $699 for the Ryzen 9 9950X3D, or around 550 euros and 645 euros respectively. at the current exchange rate.
It should be noted, however, that in practice, tariffs could be even higher for primarily political reasons. You probably noticed that trade relations between Europe and the United States are rather cool at the moment, in a context where the new Donald Trump administration plans to significantly increase customs duties.
We will therefore have to keep our fingers crossed that this situation does not have too much impact on the price of these processors.
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