The new Ryzen 7 9850X3D will go on sale starting January 29, with a suggested price of $499.
The processor builds on the foundation laid by the 9800X3D, continuing AMD’s focus on gaming performance through its 3D V-Cache lineup. The key generational update comes in the form of higher clock speeds, with a boost clock increase of up to 400MHz. AMD says this pushes gaming performance further without relying on increasingly powerful and expensive graphics cards.
According to AMD’s internal testing, the Ryzen 7 9850X3D delivers up to a 27% average gaming performance improvement compared to Intel’s Core Ultra 9 285K across a broad set of titles. The emphasis, as with earlier X3D chips, remains on real-world gaming workloads rather than peak synthetic benchmarks.
The chip also features AMD’s second-generation 3D V-Cache technology, which reduces the dependence on high-frequency memory. AMD claims that across more than 30 games, the difference in average frame rates between DDR5-4800 and DDR5-6000 memory was under 1%, lowering the overall cost of a gaming PC build.
On the specification side, the Ryzen 7 9850X3D offers 8 cores and 16 threads, boost clocks of up to 5.6GHz, a base frequency of 4.7GHz, 104MB of total cache, and a TDP of 120W.
GPUs are critical to modern computing, powering everything from gaming and graphics rendering to AI training, cloud services, and high-performance data centre workloads. As demand for these processors continues to rise beyond the consumer PC market particularly from AI and data centre deployments availability and pricing have been impacted, making improvements on the CPU side increasingly relevant for users looking to sustain gaming performance without frequent graphics card upgrades.
