Two U.S retailers list AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPUs ahead of launch — prices range from $484 to $525.

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Listings and corresponding price points for the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor have begun popping up on retailers around the web. This probably signals the Ryzen 9000 X3D Series' imminent release and should help solidify expectations of a general pricing range. The highest price we've seen so far, and the first we saw through @harukaze5719 on Twitter, is a Shotblt.com listing for the Ryzen 7 9800X3D priced at $524.62.

The cheapest listing we've been able to find, through @momomo_us on Twitter, is the Tech-America.com listing for the Ryzen 7 9800X3D, which places the pricing for this gaming-focused CPU at $484 USD. This is only about $60 more than the current cheapest listing for the previous-gen Ryzen 7 7800X3D, which starts at $429 through Best Buy and is often $450 or more elsewhere.

The Ryzen 7 9800X3D is the cheaper of the CPUs expected to arrive with the Ryzen 9000 X3D Series, anticipated to hit shelves later this month. Previous Ryzen X3D Series CPUs have adapted a 3D V-Cache design that has given them market-leading gaming CPU performance, making them ideal for particularly CPU-intensive titles like Dragon's Dogma 2.

While we don't have more detailed benchmarks of the new Ryzen 7 9800X3D chip yet, we do have some baseline expectations courtesy of synthetic Geekbench results found earlier this month. The Ryzen 7 7800X3D scored just 1,812 and 18,003 points on the Single-Core and Multi-Core benchmarks, respectively — while the Ryzen 7 9800X3D managed 2,145 and 23,315, respectively. These are very impressive gains, particularly considering the fact these are both 8-core, 8-thread CPUs.

That said, it's a little early to determine just how well these early benchmarks and pricing will end up corresponding to the real-world gaming performance gains of the new Ryzen X3D CPUs. Considering other boosts to CPU architecture that come with Ryzen X3D CPUs, like 3D V-Cache which greatly boosts the CPU's L3 cache, it's not like all the improvements could be traced purely to CPU cores, anyway.

As always, we recommend waiting for real-world benchmarks to become available before making purchases for your personal PC builds. When those benchmarks become available from ourselves or other reputable outlets, that's when you should start seriously considering the Ryzen 9000 X3D CPUs— but if supplies and pricing align with real-world performance, gaming PC builders are in for a treat as we move into the holiday season.

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Christopher Harper
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Christopher Harper has been a successful freelance tech writer specializing in PC hardware and gaming since 2015, and ghostwrote for various B2B clients in High School before that. Outside of work, Christopher is best known to friends and rivals as an active competitive player in various eSports (particularly fighting games and arena shooters) and a purveyor of music ranging from Jimi Hendrix to Killer Mike to the Sonic Adventure 2 soundtrack.

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  • tennis2
    I'm getting more than a little annoyed by the fact that there are almost no mobos available at AMD CPU launches. Not to mention they hold the B-series mobo launches for 3-6 months after the current gen CPU launch.

    Sure, this gen there aren't many mobo improvements, and CPU-less BIOS flash is a thing, and whatnot. But that doesn't excuse this behavior.

    These "soft" launches can't be helping AMDs image. Sure, you garner praise from reviews, but hardly anyone can buy them at launch (which is the time period they're cost-inflated for more profiteering). Then you let the pot cool for ~4-6months before broad availability and price normalization kicks in.
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  • helper800
    tennis2 said:
    I'm getting more than a little annoyed by the fact that there are almost no mobos available at AMD CPU launches. Not to mention they hold the B-series mobo launches for 3-6 months after the current gen CPU launch.

    Sure, this gen there aren't many mobo improvements, and CPU-less BIOS flash is a thing, and whatnot. But that doesn't excuse this behavior.

    These "soft" launches can't be helping AMDs image. Sure, you garner praise from reviews, but hardly anyone can buy them at launch (which is the time period they're cost-inflated for more profiteering). Then you let the pot cool for ~4-6months before broad availability and price normalization kicks in.
    Having new motherboards at the launch of a new set of CPUs is meaningless if the features are similar and the CPU socket is the same and BIOS flashback features are nearly universal. This is especially true if the "new" boards were to cost the same or more than the "old" ones. Seems like a huge nothing-burger complaint.
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  • vinay2070
    This will probably cost 900AUD! WTH! I paid 600 for my 7800X3D with a free crap game.

    This is why we need competition.
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  • -Fran-
    tennis2 said:
    I'm getting more than a little annoyed by the fact that there are almost no mobos available at AMD CPU launches. Not to mention they hold the B-series mobo launches for 3-6 months after the current gen CPU launch.

    Sure, this gen there aren't many mobo improvements, and CPU-less BIOS flash is a thing, and whatnot. But that doesn't excuse this behavior.

    These "soft" launches can't be helping AMDs image. Sure, you garner praise from reviews, but hardly anyone can buy them at launch (which is the time period they're cost-inflated for more profiteering). Then you let the pot cool for ~4-6months before broad availability and price normalization kicks in.
    This is something I've been talking to some folks about as well. AMD kind of dropped the ball by keeping the same Prom21 for the refresh instead of giving us something better. Like, literally, just make the uplink PCIe5 since the CPU can do PCIe downling, but the chipset can't. AMD just doesn't want to upgrade the chipset and the rebrand is all we're getting. Intel's Z890 platform looks quite nice and impressive. USB4 won't be enough to bridge the platform gap. CPU performance not widthstanding.

    Now, as for motherboard availability, I'll have to disagree there: there's plenty of X670(E)/B650(E) and X870(E) boards available. Some actually with nice discounts, so the price of entry to the AM5 platform is very low now, which is good. I'm moving up from AM4 and 5900X to AM5 with, hopefully, a dual VCache'd CCD variant. I got a meme board (Strix X870E-E) because I like USB. I had zero issues with getting what I wanted and I had plenty options as well.

    Regards.
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