Ryzen 7 9800X3D rumored to arrive in October — leaker claims AMD is saving the Ryzen 9 9900X3D and Ryzen 9 9950X3D for early 2025

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Leaker claims that AMD has started launching its Zen 5-powered Ryzen 9000 X3D chips this year.

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Famous hardware sleuth Harukaze5719 shared screenshots of a Chiphell forum discussion about AMD’s upcoming Ryzen 9000 X3D processors, rivaling the best CPUs. Rumors from the Chiphell forums are usually a hit or miss, so treat the information cautiously.

The Chinese leaker claims that AMD representatives had reportedly revealed during a Gigabyte X870 press conference that the chipmaker only has the Ryzen 7 9800X3D, Ryzen 9 9900X3D, and Ryzen 9 9950X3D lined up. However, the chipmaker will purportedly release the Zen 5 chips with 3D V-Cache in two phases. 

Assuming the information is accurate, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D will reportedly be available by the end of October this year. The date has some credence. One Bilibili content creator who allegedly attended Gigabyte’s conference stated that AMD ostensibly confirmed the Ryzen 7 9800X3D’s launch before Double 11 or Singles’ Day, corresponding to November 11.

When asked about the Ryzen 7 9800X3D, another Chiphell forum user replied that it purportedly lacks overclocking support.

Meanwhile, the more potent Ryzen 9 9900X3D and Ryzen 9 9950X3D won’t accompany the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. Instead, the two chips allegedly arrive in early 2025. This launch schedule departs from AMD’s usual release dates, where the higher-tier X3D chips get released months before the Ryzen 7 and Ryzen 5 X3D models. The delay on the Ryzen 9 SKUs makes sense if we are to believe that AMD is still working on the new features. We don’t have any clue as to what these additions will be.

AMD says that even the new vanilla Ryzen 9000 chips can’t beat the Ryzen 7000 X3D processors — so it stands to reason that the Ryzen 9000 X3D models will offer mind-blowing performance over the previous generation. However, given that AMD hasn’t provided any information on the Ryzen 9000 X3D processors, we do not know what to expect from these chips or when to expect them.

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11 Comments Comment from the forums
  • watzupken
    Good to see Intel starting to give them strong pressure to do more. Competition is always good.
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  • Mama Changa
    How is the 9900X3D more potent? The 7900X3D literally the worst chip in the line-up. Sucks at both productivity and thrashed in gaming by the 7800X3D. Why would 9900X3D be more potent unless they add v-cache to both ccd's or make a new 9900X3D from 9950X3D with 2 cores disabled on non v-cache ccd.
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  • usertests
    This is the opposite of what happened last time, 7800X3D coming out over a month after 7950/7900X3D. Also, the random user is in contradiction to rumors that 9000X3D will feature "full" overclocking support.

    Mama Changa said:
    How is the 9900X3D more potent? The 7900X3D literally the worst chip in the line-up. Sucks at both productivity and thrashed in gaming by the 7800X3D. Why would 9900X3D be more potent unless they add v-cache to both ccd's or make a new 9900X3D from 9950X3D with 2 cores disabled on non v-cache ccd.
    AMD should not produce a 9900X3D at all.

    Make a 9950X3D with both CCDs having V-Cache. Go ahead, raise the price.
    Then 9800X3D.
    Then introduce a 9600X3D earlier (they will never do it at the same time because its price/perf is too good).

    9900X3D is too middling, a waste of good and "bad" chiplets better directed towards a 9950X3D*2 and 9600X3D.
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  • thestryker
    Should this turn out to be accurate it seems mostly positioned to turn the page on the dreadful retail sales of the 9000 series. If they can ensure gaming leadership at the same time all the better.

    I don't really see the point behind the 9900X3D being a thing either unless the clockspeeds are closer to non-X3D than the 7900X3D was. I doubt there's any reason to put the extra cache on both CCDs as cross CCD traffic is still heavily penalized and the extra cache is CCD specific.
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  • Flayed
    meh I thought this chip wouldn't launch until January so I ordered a 7800x3d
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  • usertests
    Flayed said:
    meh I thought this chip wouldn't launch until January so I ordered a 7800x3d
    You can enjoy your good performance, wash your hands of this generation, and wait for Zen 6.
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  • dalek1234
    "even the new vanilla Ryzen 9000 chips can’t beat the Ryzen 7000 X3D processors"

    Sloppy writing. You missed the important part about that statement being true only in gaming scenarios, not productivity.
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  • Reality_checker
    Looks like Intel knows 9800X3D won't beat 285/265K so they canceled Arrow Lake Refresh. Meanwhile, AMD is rushing to get the 9800X3D out before Arrow Lake benchmarks.

    Hm...
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  • thesyndrome
    Flayed said:
    meh I thought this chip wouldn't launch until January so I ordered a 7800x3d
    I wouldn't worry too much, whilst the 7800X3D is better than a 5800X3D, it wasn't too big of a generational performance leap, to the point where AM4 is being kept alive by the 5800X3D, as it's still great for gaming.

    I imagine it will be the same case for the 9800X3D compared to the 7800X3D: better, but not by enough of a margin to convince people with a 7800X3D to upgrade (even though it's slightly different situation from the 5800X3D due to the 7800 and 9800 being on the same socket, so no need to change motherboard)
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  • Dementoss
    Real news please, not questionable rumours.
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