AMD's Ryzen 9 9900X processor tumbles to just $332 - power up a new AM5 PC with this holiday bargain

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Today's deal features the latest lineup of processors from AMD - the 9000-series and in particular the Ryzen 9 9900X. This CPU has had some hefty price reductions since its rather lackluster launch, and although it didn't cause much excitement back then, with these continual price drops the processor becomes an evermore attractive proposition for those already sporting an AM5 system or for people wanting to make the leap to the AM5 platform.

This fantastic price is offered at Newegg, where you can pick up the AMD Ryzen 9 9900X for just $332 - a seriously low price for a current-gen 12-core processor. This is the lowest price I've personally seen for this processor, making it a good deal if you're looking for a CPU for both gaming and lots of productivity work.

The AMD Ryzen 9 9900X uses AMD's latest Zen 5 architecture and features 12 cores and 24 threads. The base speed of the 9900X is 4.4 GHz, which can be boosted to 5.6 GHz. This processor also doesn't need a discrete GPU, as it comes with an iGPU for basic output and operations. However, we still recommend pairing the Ryzen 9 9900X with a discrete graphics card for serious gaming as the integrated GPU will not be able to power the latest games very well.

AMD Ryzen 9 9900X CPU: now $332 at Newegg

AMD Ryzen 9 9900X CPU: now $332 at Newegg (was $429)
The AMD Ryzen 9 9900X has 12 cores for 24 threads. It has a base speed of 4.4 GHz but can reach as high as 5.6 GHz. It comes with an integrated GPU and supports PCIe 5.0 devices.

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The Zen 5 chip offers 28 high-speed PCIe 5.0 lanes, of which 24 are usable. By default, the Ryzen 9 9900X supports memory up to DDR5-5600, and with two memory channels, you can have up to a whopping 192GB of DDR5 RAM.

Don't forget to take a look at our Newegg coupon codes for December 2024 and see if you can save on today's deal or other products at Newegg.

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Stewart Bendle
Stewart Bendle
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Stewart Bendle is a deals and coupon writer at Tom's Hardware. A firm believer in “Bang for the buck” Stewart likes to research the best prices and coupon codes for hardware and build PCs that have a great price for performance ratio.

4 Comments Comment from the forums
  • usertests
    Gimped 12-core goes unloved until tumbling in price, many such cases (7900X3D, 7900X, 5900X, 3900X).
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  • Mama Changa
    Unless 9900X3D unsuckifies the 9900 series, it's game over for this line. 7900X3D was bad all round. Hopefully AMD is weaving some magic to finally make 9900X3D viable. I'm not buying 9950X3D ever and want more than 8 cores of 9800X3D. If 9900X3D sucks, and Intel fixes AL gaming performance, I'll get 265K.
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  • usertests
    Mama Changa said:
    Unless 9900X3D unsuckifies the 9900 series, it's game over for this line. 7900X3D was bad all round. Hopefully AMD is weaving some magic to finally make 9900X3D viable. I'm not buying 9950X3D ever and want more than 8 cores of 9800X3D. If 9900X3D sucks, and Intel fixes AL gaming performance, I'll get 265K.
    If you're expecting a miracle from software/OS, it would also apply to the 7900X3D. It's going to be the same layout, same 1 CCD with cache, 1 CCD without.

    If Zen 6 moves to a 12-core unified CCX, then that will be the 9900X3D burier giving you 12 cores with no compromises, but the actual 9900X equivalent will become somewhere from 16-20 cores.
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  • abufrejoval
    AMD doesn't want to make 6 core CCDs.

    They just happen when they try to make 8 core CCDs: defects cannot be avoided.

    Now are these chips really bad or unusable?

    I'd argue that many people won't eben be able to tell when using a 6 or 12 core computer instead of an 8 or 16 core variant.

    Most games still use surprisingly little CPU power and I had FS2024 running on just 2 out of 16 cores via Lasso on my 7950X3D the other day, without it doing better or worse in VR. And I couldn't measure any difference between V-cache and non-V-Cache either ony my RTX 4090 at 4k.

    Without VR things are pretty smooth with way less hardware, with VR it stutters badly, no matter how much hardware you throw at it.

    And while I was testing Windows 11 on older hardware I was astonished to see how well an Ivy Bridge i7-3770 with a GTX 980ti was running games at 2560x1440: ten year old hardware available for pennies 2nd hand running rings around any Strix Point.

    And most consoles are way weaker in the CPU department than these chips.

    Personally, I've always tended to prefer perfect bin variants, because saving a few hundred € on a system costing thousands overall didn't make sense and because my machines are very multi-purpose.

    But if you're a gamer looking for a way to shoehorn the bigger GPU into your budget, these "bin failures" may help you without really ever becoming a bottleneck.

    Just have HWinfo or similar run in the background and observe what's going on: there is a lot to learn there about the small correlation between hype and reality. And then you may consider if 400FPS are tangible value when your monitor or you skills are outclassed far earlier.

    And if things eventually change, you can still upgrade once prices and your budget find common ground.
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