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AMD's New Ryzen 7 9850X3D Unveiled - Here's How It Stacks Up

AMD's Ryzen 7 9850X3D boosts max clock speed to 5.6 GHz, promising up to 8% better gaming performance over the 9800X3D, shipping in Q1 2026.

  • At CES 2026 in Las Vegas, AMD unveiled the Ryzen 7 9850X3D, a higher‑clocked variant of the 9800X3D that raises max boost from 5.2 GHz to 5.6 GHz and which AMD declared the world's fastest gaming processor.
  • Because the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D performed so well in recent years, AMD used a binning process on the same silicon to select chips that run stably at higher clocks, producing the AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D.
  • Each 9850X3D is built with eight AMD "Zen 5" cores and 16 threads, pairs 32MB L3 cache and 64MB last-level cache, and AMD said the clock bump could enable around an 8% performance increase in best-case gaming scenarios.
  • AMD said it will ship in the first quarter of 2026, with pricing not yet disclosed, benefiting esports enthusiasts and users with high-end GPUs such as the RTX 5090 while offering little gain at 4K max settings.
  • But the Ryzen 9 9950X3D presents a competing claim to speed, and AMD's internal testing shows the 9850X3D ahead in some cases versus Intel Core Ultra 9 285K; independent benchmarks are needed.
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With regard to new desktop hardware, AMD presented the CES with the Ryzen 7 9850X3D with eight cores and additional 3D V-cache, i.e. L3-cache.

Read the original note on the following link: AMD announces its new Ryzen 7 9850X3D processor at #CES2026 and follows AMD's novelties at CES 2026 in Las Vegas, and today it is the turn of a new processor. Because it is the Ryzen 7 9850X3D, an improved CPU in frequencies relative to the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. The new AMD processor is positioned as the largest exponent of the Ryzen 7 series of today. And although it shares several features with the 9800…

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Tom's Guide broke the news in on Tuesday, January 6, 2026.
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