The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 is a attainable upcoming AMD CPU that has been rumored ever since AMD unveiled its first spherical of X3D gaming CPUs in the beginning of 2025. This monster of a CPU is believed, just like the 9950X3D, to characteristic 16 AMD Zen 5 CPU cores and be partnered with further 3D V-Cache, however as an alternative of only one 3D V-Cache die, it might get two, making it the final word model of AMD’s present AM5 CPU tech.
We spoke to AMD concerning the chip practically a yr in the past, with the corporate explaining that whereas they might make a 16-core CPU with 3D V-Cache for all cores, they “do not assume there is a huge marketplace for it” however that they are going to “do some inner evaluation.” Nevertheless, recent rumors at the moment are pointing to such a chip current, with some information retailers hinting at having been briefed concerning the upcoming chip, and subsequently, the mannequin identify has appeared in advertising and marketing materials from two gaming PC producers.
The preliminary report comes from tech information website ComputerBase, which, following a briefing with the corporate, posted on X that “AMD simply informed us […] Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 keep tuned.” Whereas removed from a definitive ‘sure’ from the corporate, this strongly hints that the chip might lastly be within the works.
In the meantime, each Alienware and Sytronix have subsequently posted advertising and marketing supplies mentioning the chip. Alienware posted on Weibo a video about its new Space-51 desktop PC now being obtainable with AMD CPUs (which is definitely an enormous deal, as we had been impressed by the corporate’s Aurora R16 PC, but it surely was held again by utilizing Intel Core Extremely 200 CPUs), with the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 talked about within the description.
Sytronix pulled the same transfer with a publish on its web site detailing the specs of its new workstations, with the 9950X3D2 listed, displaying it having 16 cores and utilizing an “X3D2 structure.”
Each posts have now been amended, with the Alienware publish now simply saying the machine options “the newest AMD Ryzen processors and second-generation 3D V-Cache expertise” whereas the Sytronix web page has been up to date to indicate the 9950X3D, reasonably than the 9950X3D2.
It’s completely attainable that each the latter incidents had been simply typos and that the previous “keep tuned” trace was little greater than a brushing apart of the query. Nevertheless, to have three sources every point out the chip in such fast succession (over the course of two days) is a stronger indication than we get from many leaks and rumors.
Precisely what the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 specs are is solely hypothesis, but when it hits expectations, it might have the identical setup because the 9950X3D, utilizing two Zen 5 CCD compute dies that every include eight CPU cores alongside a single IO die, creating the traditional three-chip look of an AM5 chip as seen under. Nevertheless, the place the 9950X3D and different 9000 collection X3D chips then sandwich a single 3D V-Cache die beneath a kind of CCDs, to offer eight cores entry to an additional 64MB of cache, the 9950X3D2 would have a second 3D V-Cache die beneath the second CCD, giving all 16 cores entry to a bigger shared cache.
There is definitely loads of pleasure round what kind of efficiency a 9950X3D2 might present, even when AMD’s senior technical advertising and marketing supervisor of shopper processors, Donny Woligroski, has already stated to us that “we all know it is solely going to be a few p.c distinction” whereas being a really pricey chip to supply. However some avid gamers simply need the very best, and it is trying like they may lastly be about to get it.
