Wednesday, December 17th 2025
AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D Listed at $553, Slightly Above Ryzen 7 9800X3D
AMD's upcoming Ryzen 7 9850X3D processor is slowly hitting the retailer space, and the pricing has been leaked by @momomo_us. At $553, the new "Granite Ridge" Ryzen 9000 X3D SKU is priced roughly $70 more than the Ryzen 7 9800X3D at its launch. The Ryzen 7 9850X3D CPU features 8 cores and 16 threads, 96 MB of L3 cache, and a boost clock up to 5.6 GHz, with a 120 W power envelope. This represents a 400 MHz increase over the Ryzen 7 9800X3D model, which has the same cache and core configuration. At Switzerland retailer Orderflow.ch, the CPU is listed for 473.55 CHF, which is 20% higher than the Ryzen 7 9800X3D.
Officially, AMD's Ryzen 9000 series supports DDR5 memory speeds up to 5600 MT/s, but this model could push that number to 9,800 MT/s if earlier reports are accurate. AMD is likely using higher-binned dies it has saved over the past few months to offer a better alternative to Intel's upcoming "Arrow Lake Refresh," scheduled for early 2026, and "Nova Lake," scheduled for late 2026. As Intel has confirmed it will ship with native support for DDR5 memory speeds reaching 7200 MT/s on CUDIMM modules, AMD is fighting with a faster CPU clock and supposedly better memory speeds to offer good competition in the consumer DIY PC space.
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@momomo_us
Officially, AMD's Ryzen 9000 series supports DDR5 memory speeds up to 5600 MT/s, but this model could push that number to 9,800 MT/s if earlier reports are accurate. AMD is likely using higher-binned dies it has saved over the past few months to offer a better alternative to Intel's upcoming "Arrow Lake Refresh," scheduled for early 2026, and "Nova Lake," scheduled for late 2026. As Intel has confirmed it will ship with native support for DDR5 memory speeds reaching 7200 MT/s on CUDIMM modules, AMD is fighting with a faster CPU clock and supposedly better memory speeds to offer good competition in the consumer DIY PC space.
53 Comments on AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D Listed at $553, Slightly Above Ryzen 7 9800X3D
I also would not describe a $70 USD increase as slight but I guess the AMD sales and marketing for this top bin 8-core X3D will only help to further maximize AMD's profit margin
So who's going to be the first to install and benchmark it on Asrock 800-series boards?
Prices will be much higher In Germany And Austria most likely. After release the prices will skyrocked for those who want the "best" "fastest" cpu in the viewpoint of the buyer. It does not matter if it is the fastest one, the highest specced processor will see price increases. The 70 us dollars will most likely be 100€ bare minimum extra price on top of the already risen cpu prices for certain skus.
If it's like a 9800X3D, then it may still shine when limited to 88W like the 7800X3D. With this limit it will suffer at full multi-threaded workloads, but gaming should be fine as not all cores are trying to run at their max.
Don't except major improvement here until Zen 6 and its new I/O die.
However, getting some 9800 MT/s DDR5 memory to pair with it could be cost a kidney or two in this market.
Topology is Ryzen's bane overall. The single biggest improvement introduced by Zen 3 was the move from 4+4 to 8+0 per CCX, equaling CCX = CCD. Until a CCX/CCD with 12 cores+ is provided by AMD, the models that have 6 core CCDs are best avoided. The Ryzen 9 X3D models further complicate the topology issue by having most of the cache memory physically located on one side of the processor, which is why the Ryzen 7 X3D models are so dang good - the full potential of the hardware can be extracted without any hurdles of wasted cycles moving data around and/or ensuring cache coherency. A mitigation would be the 9950X3D2 with two X3D dies, which would largely behave like a standard 9950X.
I think it would've been nice for the 9850X3D to replace the 9800X3D for the same price, with the 9800X3D being discounted, but then again the 9850X3D is the flagship version.
Ensh!tication of that is everything Tech is/has happened.
All this does is to NOT BUY ANYTHING UNLESS ABSOLUTLY NECESSARY.
AND AMD IS PARTLY TO BLAME...
If you are still on a DDR4 system this post doesn't even apply to you.
My 9700x is surviving quite well on my ASROCK B650i. I've kept voltages down and temps limited to 70C with PBO CO enabled...hopefully things will survive. I've already voided my warranty by lapping the CPU IHS... :toast:
It has been some time now that the semiconductor industry has been catering to the DIY channels in a nearly charitable manner. Every RTX 5090 that Nvidia builds is an AI accelerator they didn't sell, each 64 GB memory stick that Micron sold under Crucial is another stick that didn't end up at the hands of an enterprise customer that would pay 10 times its market worth otherwise. Each SSD that Samsung builds for the consumer segment is another that isn't inside a Dell EMC or HPE compute cluster. AMD put the Threadripper in the back seat to divert production for Epyc to the point of canceling products in the past, and right now they're positioned as exceptionally low volume, extreme margin products just to say they aren't completely unavailable. Intel has built nothing practically nothing but Xeons in a couple of years.
All you can do as a consumer is buy smart. But eventually this won't be a solution anymore, especially if you don't live in a particularly abundant market. Depending on the demand level you might still be in an area where distribution delays have somewhat sheltered you from the price increases, but even in these markets the situation has begun to deteriorate. For example, I purchased two 8 GB DDR5 sticks two weeks ago - Kingston Fury Beast 5600 C36 sticks, of the kind you'd find in a cheap gaming PC not too long ago - their price has increased by 2.8x since. All major stores in Brazil have already begun to see insufficient stock and price increases on whatever little you can find.