AMD confirms $899 price tag for Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition

A couple of weeks ago, AMD officially announced the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition processor, combining two stacks of 3D V-Cache in one chip. This is going to be AMD's top-end Ryzen desktop processor, so we expected it to be expensive, but the exact cost remained elusive. That changed this week with AMD revealing an $899 price tag. 

In a tweet this afternoon, David McAfee, AMD's VP and GM of Ryzen, confirmed that the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 will launch on April 22nd with an $899 price tag. As PCGamer points out, this is $200 higher than the launch price for the standard Ryzen 9 9950X3D.

The Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 stands out thanks to its dual 3D V-Cache design, providing 208MB of high-speed on-chip cache, the most ever put into a Ryzen processor. The additional cache means more game data and more assets can sit right next to the CPU cores, providing speedy access with dramatically reduced latency.

This all should lead to performance improvements in both gaming and content creation tasks, but AMD says it will “really shine” in other demanding workflows like simulations, 3D rendering, large software builds, AI models, and game engine compiles, positioning this CPU as a workstation-class chip, rather than a gaming one.

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