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AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D crashes to lowest ever price, now cheaper than 9800X3D
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Key Points:
- Amazon has reduced the price of the Ryzen 7 9850X3D to $419, $85 off its list price, making it cheaper than the Ryzen 7 9800X3D; a coupon must be manually activated on the product page to access this discount.
- The Ryzen 7 9850X3D features the same eight Zen 5 cores, 16 threads, and 96MB of L3 cache as the 9800X3D but offers a higher maximum boost clock of 5.6GHz, which is 400MHz faster.
- Performance tests show the 9850X3D outperforms the 9800X3D in gaming and applications, with notable gains such as a 10fps (+3%) increase in Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail and a 5fps (+3%) lead in Forza Motorsport with ray tracing.
- The 9850X3D also delivers improved compute performance, with a 7% higher Cinebench 2024 single-core score, while multi-core gains are more modest.
- Despite the higher clock speeds, the 9850X3D maintains the same CPU TDP as the 9800X3D, with only a slight increase in power consumption (9W), meaning existing cooling solutions remain adequate.
