AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D & 9900X3D Prices Confirmed: $699 & $599​ - March 12 Launch is Official

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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.



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[john_]

Typical AMD pricing.

 

[bitsandboots]

Typical AMD pricing.

Just be glad CPUs sell direct and there's no such thing as selling through partners like XFX, Powercolor as in GPU land etc or else you'd be seeing a nice 40% markup.
Dang, shouldn't have said that. Now they're gonna be getting ideas.

 

[john_]

Just be glad CPUs sell direct and there's no such thing as selling through partners like XFX, Powercolor as in GPU land etc or else you'd be seeing a nice 40% markup.
Dang, shouldn't have said that. Now they're gonna be getting ideas.

Then stop giving them 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.

 

[Vya Domus]

Expensive but I would have paid for one of these if only they had the 3DV cache on both CCDs.

 

[holyprof]

Those prices make me scratch my head ... who would pay $600 for a cut-down CPU with lower boost clocks when for $100 more ($100 is nothing for the target audience of those CPUs) you can have the best CPU for desktop computing with top productivity AND gaming power?
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.

 

[BigMack70]

Expensive but I would have paid for one of these if only they had the 3DV cache on both CCDs.

Me too. Instead went with a 9800 x3d. I don't expect the 9950 x3d to be faster in games, and I don't want to deal with scheduler headaches in Windows.

I also don't understand why the 9900 x3d exists.

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

Then stop giving them 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.

I don’t know about that. AIBs have an advantage of already having a supply chain and equipment to manufacture. If anything, they can be cheaper because they are specialists in volume production. AMD, Intel, Nvidia all don’t want to be production companies like that, and they likely tap one of the manufacturing companies to make reference models in volume. They can easily discourage AIBs from gouging. If you don’t comply with MSRP, then your supply is pulled. And if retailers don’t comply, their supply is pulled. About the only thing they can’t fix is scalpers, but that “market” has existed since the beginning of time. The only way to overcome that is for supply to meet demand, which is clearly not happening right now.

 

[Cheeseball]

This is normal pricing (thankfully). The 3950X released at $750 in 2019.

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 )

The 1800X was also $500 on release as well (albeit this was just 8-cores).

 

[Niceumemu]

Me too. Instead went with a 9800 x3d. I don't expect the 9950 x3d to be faster in games, and I don't want to deal with scheduler headaches in Windows.

I also don't understand why the 9900 x3d exists.

9900x3d only exists because people lack the ability to think

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

 

[Testsubject01]

Just be glad CPUs sell direct and there's no such thing as selling through partners like XFX, Powercolor as in GPU land etc or else you'd be seeing a nice 40% markup.
Dang, shouldn't have said that. Now they're gonna be getting ideas.

Like the R7 7800X3D, selling as low as 280€ in July 2024. Rising to around 600€ by Dec. 2024 and only very very slowly dropping, currently at around 500€.
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.

 

[Auxityne]

A 9900X3D with dual V-Cache (barring inter-CCD latency) would have been a nuclear gaming CPU for years and years to come. Probably would have invalidated the existence of a 9950X3D too.

Now I guess we have to wait to see if Zen 6 has 12-core CCDs for that dream to happen.

 

[Tropick]

Just be glad CPUs sell direct and there's no such thing as selling through partners like XFX, Powercolor as in GPU land etc or else you'd be seeing a nice 40% markup.
Dang, shouldn't have said that. Now they're gonna be getting ideas.

I got some bad news for ya...

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

 

[Rjc31]

I'm still happy with my 9800X3D that I bought last week for $479

 

[Dr. Dro]

9900x3d only exists because people lack the ability to think

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

Yeah, agreed. The 7900X3D and 9900X3D CPUs are not very good. Jack of all trades, master at none. Gamers should just opt for the Ryzen 7 variant, and enthusiasts should go straight to the 16 core model. The 6+6 topology isn't the best to begin with, but these 6 3D+6 chips are just bad. The resource imbalance is insane, Windows just wasn't designed for it.

A 9900X3D with dual V-Cache (barring inter-CCD latency) would have been a nuclear gaming CPU for years and years to come. Probably would have invalidated the existence of a 9950X3D too.

Now I guess we have to wait to see if Zen 6 has 12-core CCDs for that dream to happen.

Anything with dual V-Cache, but that's why AMD doesn't want to release it.

 

[A Computer Guy]

Well next time 9950x comes up for $500 I guess I'm going to take the deal.

 

[Tropick]

I'm still happy with my 9800X3D that I bought last week for $479

Man I hope you're still happy with literally the best gaming CPU you can buy right now

 

[Rjc31]

Man I hope you're still happy with literally the best gaming CPU you can buy right now

Lol I am! Especially because all I hear is how it's been priced way above MSRP and hard to find and I walked in to Micro Center and not only was it at MSRP but they had 30 of them. ‍

 

[Guwapo77]

I guess I'm going to work late 12 March...I'm getting this CPU (9950X3D).

 

[freeagent]

I guess you guys forgot about the 5600X3D eh.. such a terrible CPU.. still outguns the 5700X3D.. lol.

Comments about inter CCD latency are so.. antiquated.

 

[Guwapo77]

I guess you guys forgot about the 5600X3D eh.. such a terrible CPU.. still outguns the 5700X3D.. lol.

Comments about inter CCD latency are so.. antiquated.

I didn't forget about it, the 5600X3D is in my son's computer.

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.

 

[usiname]

Those prices make me scratch my head ... who would pay $600 for a cut-down CPU with lower boost clocks when for $100 more ($100 is nothing for the target audience of those CPUs) you can have the best CPU for desktop computing with top productivity AND gaming power?
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.

9900X3D exist to upsell the 9950X3D. In few months the price will drop maybe even bellow 9800X3D and then it will sell as good as the rest X3D CPUs. This is the case with the CPUs, this is the case with the GPUs (RX 9070 - $50 cheaper than RX 9070XT).

 

[Makaveli]

Just be glad CPUs sell direct and there's no such thing as selling through partners like XFX, Powercolor as in GPU land etc or else you'd be seeing a nice 40% markup.
Dang, shouldn't have said that. Now they're gonna be getting ideas.

Imagine that wasn't the case and you could just buy the GPU board from AIB then buy standalone memory + the gpu core directly from AMD or NV. And just build it yourself like you can a current system.

Would probably cost more.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Value is better now than maybe ever, for the number of cores, especially in inflation adjusted dollars. Single cores 20 years ago were over a $1000 unadjusted. Before Ryzen anything over 4 cores(lets not have the FX core debate, the court ruled it had 4) was behind the Intel HEDT paywall, which again was more in unadjusted and much more in adjusted dollars.

the x900X3D series is the decoy effect medium movie popcorn.

 

[ejolson]

Expensive but I would have paid for one of these if only they had the 3DV cache on both CCDs.

Same here. The cores without the extra cache are not useful to me--especially now that the cores with the cache run at fast clock speeds.