AMD Ryzen 9950X3D: The 7950X3D also prepares the successor in terms of price 133 comments
According to rumors, AMD wants to present, among other things, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D, the big brother of the new Ryzen 7 9800X3D (test) with 16 Zen 5 cores, at CES in early January 2025. Analogous to the development of For the R7 7800X3D, the prices Current market figures for the predecessor R9 7950X3D anticipate a possible price increase.
Old equipment, rising prices
As a reminder: the Ryzen 7 7800X3D (test), by far the most popular high-end gaming processor among gamers until recently, was still available at 330 euros or even cheaper at the beginning of this summer. year, before the release of the processor. July stock has become more and more expensive. In September the 400 euro mark was exceeded, in November the market price currently reached 475 euros and the recommended price for departure in April 2023 was almost reached again (499 euros).
Such drastic price increases for an older processor on an older manufacturing process are unusual well before an EOL phase begins. The hypothesis that AMD would have artificially reduced the gap with the Ryzen 7 9800X3D, currently more expensive according to the recommended retail price of 529 euros, in order to benefit more from its dominant position in the gaming processor market, is therefore obvious.
The 7950X3D leads the way for the 9950X3D in terms of price
However, what has remained largely unnoticed until now: the increase in the market price of the Ryzen 9 7950X3D (test). The 16-core Zen 4 processor, released in early 2023, is largely comparable to the cheaper R7 7800X3D when it comes to gaming, but offers significantly better application performance thanks to the additional CCD without 3D V-cache. This summer, the R9 7950X3D was available from around 520 euros, but its price has now risen to at least 650 euros.
Price evolution of the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D over the last 6 months
The price increase is lower in percentage than the R7 7800X3D, but it is still significant and cannot be ruled out. The 12-core Ryzen 9 7900X3D (test) has now gone from around 380 euros to around 480 euros currently. Even in these cases, one would actually expect a price drop for processors that are a year and a half old and now have proven structure sizes – especially if new generations of processors have already been released and direct successors are upon us.
As a result, the former X3D flagship also suggests that AMD is already anticipating the price positioning of the Ryzen 9 9950X3D with rising market prices. If the jump from the R7 7800X3D to the R7 9800X3D is anything to go by, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D will be the first Ryzen processor on a mainstream socket that will cost over 820 euros according to the suggested price.
Just more expensive or soon to be sold out?
A development analogous to the first X3D processor, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D (test), is also not excluded. AMD initially limited the availability of the once-fastest gaming processor on the old AM4 socket for months and finally stopped it in mid-October in order to encourage gamers to upgrade from simply upgrading the processor on the existing socket to a financially more lucrative processor. AM5 platform.
The strategy of removing older high-end models from sale but leaving smaller variants in place is by no means an invention of AMD. As a common example, can Apple apply: With the market launch of a new generation of iPhone, the Pro models of the predecessor are forced to leave the market; only non-professional models survive at a cheaper price. It’s conceivable that AMD will do something similar with Ryzen 7 7800X3D, Ryzen 9 7900X3D, and Ryzen 9 7950X3D once the next generation of X3D processors are fully established.
Architecture core/thread clock
Base/Turbo L2 + L3 TDP iGPU Price UVP (Start) Price (purchase price) AMD Ryzen 9 9950X Zen 5 16/32 4.3/5.7 GHz 16+64 MB 170 W ✓ 709 Euro (ab667 USD) AMD Ryzen 9 9900X Zen 5 12/24 4.4/5.6 GHz 12+64 MB 120 W ✓ 539 Euro (499 USD) to 446 Euro AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D Zen 4 16/32 4.2/5.6 GHz +64 MB 120 W ✓ 789 Euro (699 USD) to 650 Euro AMD Ryzen 9 7950X Zen 4 16/32 4.5/5.7 GHz 16+64 MB 170 W ✓ 849 Euro (699 USD) to 475 Euro 7X3 AMD/Zen049 24 4.4/5.6 GHz 12+64+64 MB 120 W ✓ 679 Euro (599 USD) to 600 Euro AMD Ryzen 9 7900X Zen 4 12/24 4.7/5.6 GHz 12+64 MB 170 W ✓ 669 Euros (549 USD) for an AMD Ryzen 9 7900 Zen 4 12/24 3.7/5.4 GHz 12+64 MB 65 W 370 Euros ✓ 479 Euro (429 USD) to 325 Euro AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Zen 5 8/7, 4.4 GHz 8+32+64 MB 120 W ✓ 529 euros (479 USD) to 698 euros AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D Zen 4 8/16 4.2/5.0 GHz 8+32 +64 MB 120 W ✓ 499 euros (499 USD X7) A MD Ryzen Zen 5 8/16 3.8/5.5 GHz 8+32 MB 65 W ✓ 399 euros (359 USD) from 332 euros AMD RYZEN 7 7700X Zen 4 8/16 4.5/5 .4 GHz 8+32 MB 105 W ✓ 479 Euros (399 USD) at from 287 Euros AMD Ryzen 7 7700 Zen 4 8/16 3.8/5.3 GHz 8+32 MB 65 W ✓ 369 euros (329 USD) to 269 euros AMD Ryzen 5 9600X Zen 5 6/12 3.9/ 5.4 GHz 6+32 MB 65 W ✓ 309 euros (279 USD) to 245 euros AMD Ryzen 5 7600X3D Zen 4 6 /12 4.1/4.7 GHz 6+32+64 MB 65 W ✓ 329 Euro (299 USD) to 299 Euro AMD Ryzen 5 Zen 760X /12 4 .7/5.3 GHz 6+32 MB 105 W ✓ 359 Euro (299 USD) to 199 Euro AMD Ryzen 5 7600 Zen 4 6/12 3.8/5.1 GHz 6+32 MB 65 W ✓ 259 Euro ab (229 USD) AMD Ryzen 5 7500F Zen 4 6/12 3 .7/5.0 GHz 6+32 MB 65 W – ? Euro (179 USD) from 158 euros Theme: AMD AMD Ryzen 9000 Ryzen Zen processor
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