AMD’s new Ryzen 7 9850X3D makes the best gaming CPU even faster

AMD offers an improved version of its popular software Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor Today at CES. The new Ryzen 7 9850X3D offers the same 8-core/16-thread CPU as the 9800X3D, and runs at faster boost clocks.

“We’ve tuned our best gaming processor in the world and increased the boost clocks to 5.6 GHz,” Rahul Tiku, head of AMD’s customer CPU business, says at a press conference. Edge. The 9850X3D’s boost clock is 400MHz higher than the standard 9800X3D, and maintains the same 120W TDP. It’s essentially a better version of the 9800X3D, and how much faster it is compared to the current chip will vary on a game-by-game basis.

“In the ballpark we’re seeing a performance delta of about 7 percent between the 9800X3D and 9850X3D,” Tico says. “When you look at frequency-sensitive games like a lot of e-sports games, we’ll see a 5 percent increase in performance,” whereas AAA games won’t see much of a difference at all.

Naturally, AMD also couldn’t resist comparing the 9850X3D to it Intel Core Ultra 9 285Kwhich not only failed to beat the latest Zen 5 X3D chipset but also didn’t compare well to Intel’s previous flagship 14900K chip in gaming.

“The Ryzen 7 9850X3D unlocks performance, delivering an average 27 percent increase over our competitors across a subset of 35+ games,” says Tikoo. AMD claims the 9850X3D is 60 percent faster than Intel’s Core Ultra 9 285K Baldur’s Gate 3 And more than 45 percent faster in both Hogwarts Legacy and Counter Strike 2.

AMD will also continue to sell the 9800X3D alongside the new 9850X3D, with 16 cores/32 threads 9950X3D It remains the top-tier flagship processor in the Ryzen 9000 series. AMD plans to launch the 9850X3D in the first quarter of 2026, but the company has not yet revealed pricing. We will get exact pricing and availability closer to the available date.