Friday, March 7th 2025
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D & 9900X3D Prices Confirmed: $699 & $599 - March 12 Launch is Official
Earlier today, AMD confirmed finalized price points and a launch date for its two incoming additions to the Ryzen 9000X3D processor lineup. The current Zen 5 processor population (with 3D V-Cache onboard) has a count of one—Team Red's reigning gaming champion: the eight-core Ryzen 7 9800X3D model. AMD's Senior Vice President and General Manager of Computing and Graphics was the first staffer to make an official announcement regarding definitive talking points. Jack Huynh stated (via a social media post): the world's best processor for gaming and content creation is almost here. Available starting March 12th. Ryzen 9 9950X3D—$699. Ryzen 9 9900X3D—$599. A huge thank you to our incredible community of gamers, creators, and innovators for your continued support. Together, we're shaping the future of gaming and content creation! Let's level up together!"
The sixteen-core Ryzen 9 9950X3D and twelve-core 9900X3D SKUs were officially unveiled at CES 2025, in early January. Since then, many leaks have emerged online—certain soothsayers were bang on with their predictions. Almost a month ago, speculative $699 and $599 price points were leaked. On two separate occasions, a—now confirmed—March 12 launch day was projected. AMD is expected to lift media embargoes on March 11; reviews of finalized silicon will finally reveal whether the two new players can beat their incumbent sibling in gaming performance benchmarks. As reported this afternoon, China's JD.com retail platform has opened its order book to customers—a limited quantity of Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9900X3D units were made available for a short period of time.
Sources:
JackMHuynh Tweet, VideoCardz, Tom's Hardware, Wccftech
The sixteen-core Ryzen 9 9950X3D and twelve-core 9900X3D SKUs were officially unveiled at CES 2025, in early January. Since then, many leaks have emerged online—certain soothsayers were bang on with their predictions. Almost a month ago, speculative $699 and $599 price points were leaked. On two separate occasions, a—now confirmed—March 12 launch day was projected. AMD is expected to lift media embargoes on March 11; reviews of finalized silicon will finally reveal whether the two new players can beat their incumbent sibling in gaming performance benchmarks. As reported this afternoon, China's JD.com retail platform has opened its order book to customers—a limited quantity of Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9900X3D units were made available for a short period of time.
68 Comments on AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D & 9900X3D Prices Confirmed: $699 & $599 - March 12 Launch is Official
Dang, shouldn't have said that. Now they're gonna be getting ideas.
The more middlemen you put in the supply chain, the higher prices go. But having those in between to agree in certain profit margins, it's possible. It was done for ages in GPUs. Cards where coming out with an MSRP of $499 for example and they where selling for $499 for ages after release. Nvidia decided to create consumer enthusiasm with fake prices, while letting it's partners decide themselves what profit margins they would enjoy. That was an Nvidia decision in my opinion. If Nvidia sends a letter to any of it's partners telling them "You can have 10% profit margin, or we might have problems supplying you with GPUs", that AIB will drop the prices overnight. But probably Nvidia will never send that kind of letter. Probably they don't want another EVGA, so they are letting their AIBs do whatever they want.
MSI dropping AMD just before a successful product line like the 9070s, means that MSI probably seen much higher profit margins by selling Nvidia cards and probably higher freedom in putting prices on it's Nvidia graphics cards. AMD might have insisted on a cap on profit margins that MSI didn't liked.
The 9900X3D will be marginally faster in some benchmarks compared to the 9800X3D (inter-CCD latency), with lower gaming performance, while generating more heat and costing more.
I also don't understand why the 9900 x3d exists.
The 7950X3D was also $700 on release in 2023, although I did get mine at around $550 off Amazon US. (during the SoC voltage issues :laugh:)
The 1800X was also $500 on release as well (albeit this was just 8-cores).
It'd be a good CPU if it was 8+4 instead of 6+6
They could easily just keep the defective 6 core dies for a 9600x3d
Or the R7 9800X3D starting at 500€ only to rise above the 650€ peak around the same time in Dec. 2024 also very slowly dropping, currently around 550€.
It's amazing how manufactures and retailers shifted to nickel and dime previous generation products, as well as gold plating any ounce of progress in performance.
Halo and enthusiast pricing is being normalized in the high-end to mid-tier segments. While products in the mid-tier to entry level get priced to upsell the ones above.
The system in profile was, all in all, just about 700€ at the time (rounded 900€ in 2025 Money).
Sure thing, it is more than 10 years old now, but building an analogue in today's hardware would roughly be north of 3000€ easy.
What a time to be alive in the PC DIY market. :(
Now I guess we have to wait to see if Zen 6 has 12-core CCDs for that dream to happen.
EDIT: And before anyone says, yes I know this is a very specific product for a very premium clientele who's willing to pay the markups for something like this but.. Couldn't resist at least bringing it up :laugh:
Comments about inter CCD latency are so.. antiquated.
To answer the poll - Yes the prices for the CPUs are reasonable. I bought my 5950X during the pandemic and it was 1200€. So paying $699 is well worth it this go around.
Would probably cost more.
the x900X3D series is the decoy effect medium movie popcorn.