AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D is the newer option out these two CPUs, launching on March 11, 2025 for a list price of $700. The Core Ultra 9 285K released on October 24, 2024 for a list price of $600.

AMD’s new Ryzen 9 9950X3D and Ryzen 9 9900X3D will be available from March 12 for $699 and $599 respectively, while in the U.K. those prices have just been confirmed at £659 and £564.

The Ryzen 9 9950X3D, just like its non-X3D counterpart, has two CCDs, both of which house eight Zen 5 cores. The Ryzen 7 9800X3D, with its eight Zen 5 cores, only has a single CCD.

The Ryzen 9 9950X3D has a 170W configurable TDP, which is a step up over previous-gen parts (the 7950X3D is 120 watts), and slots into the same AM5 socket as the Ryzen 7000 and other 9000 series ...

AMD’s new Ryzen 9 9950X3D delivers a final blow to Intel. The 9950X3D is superior in both gaming and creator tasks, making it one of the best CPUs to buy.

But now, with the release of the Ryzen 9 9950X3D, AMD can take the crown for best chip for both gaming and productivity tasks. This $699 16-core, 32-thread slots above last August’s Ryzen 9 ...

The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D is a 16-core, 32-thread gaming processor with an absolutely ridiculous 144MB of cache, so it shouldn’t be too surprising that it’s incredibly powerful.

The story of the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D is refreshingly straightforward: it is as fast as the chart-leading Ryzen 7 9800X3D in games but has double the cores, so it's significantly better in content ...

The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D is the highest-end 3D V-cached chip from Team Red. The processor has been filled to the brim with the latest Zen 5 hardware and baked to a gaming-ready state.

Ryzen 9 9950X3D review: AMD irons out nearly every single downside of 3D V-Cache Not a lot of people actually need this thing, but if you do, it's very good.

Still, you could build a solid Ryzen 9 system for far less than the Mac Studio M4 Max's $2,000 starting cost, even while accounting for the 9950X3D's $700 price tag. Apple doesn't always come out ...

Enter the Ryzen 9 9950X3D. It's designed to be the chip to do the lot. It's got a V-cache-equipped Core Complex Die (CCD) and another standard CCD, giving it 16 cores and 32 threads of multi ...