AMD is following up the Ryzen 9 7950X3D with a new chip in the 9000 range. The CPU is said to be ideal for creative professionals because of its huge amount of cache.
AMD is launching the AMD Ryzen 9950X3D at CES in Las Vegas. That desktop processor succeeds the Ryzen 9 7950X3D and is built around the same philosophy. On the chip, AMD combines powerful Zen cores with a huge amount of 3D stacked cache memory.
Specifically, the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D has sixteen Zen 5 cores on board that can reach a maximum clock speed of 5.7 GHz. The chip features 144 MB of cache. Part of that is fast AMD V-Cache second-generation memory. AMD is launching a slightly lighter variant along with the top model.
| AMD Ryzen | Cores / Threads | Clock speed (GHz) | Cache (MB) | TDP (W) |
| 9 9950X3D | 16 / 32 | 5,7 | 144 | 170 |
| 9 9900X3D | 12 / 24 | 5,5 | 140 | 120 |
AMD claims the chip is the ultimate choice for creative professionals engaged in (3D) rendering. In its own benchmark tests of Adobe Premiere, Davinci and Blender, among others, the chip outperformed its predecessor by an average of thirteen percent. Compared to the Intel Core i9 285K, the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D is said to outperform it by about ten percent, although those figures have not yet been independently verified.
Laptop variants
AMD anticipates three more mobile variants of the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D. One is a mobile copy, the other two have no 3D cache on board for workloads where its added value is limited. Even without the stacking cache, however, they are well equipped. They are the following models:
| AMD Ryzen | Cores / Threads | Clock speed (GHz) | Cache (MB) | TDP (W) |
| 9 9955HX3D | 16 / 32 | 5,4 | 144 | 54 |
| 9 9955HX | 16 / 32 | 5,4 | 80 | 54 |
| 9 9850HX | 12 / 24 | 5,2 | 76 | 54 |
The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D for the desktop should hit shelves before the end of this quarter. Laptop variants will appear for the second half of the year.