AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D AM5 Desktop Processor, 16 Cores & 32 Threads, Up to 5.7 GHz Max Boost Clock, Integrated AMD Radeon Graphics, 192GB Max Memory, Dual Channel, Black
- TSMC 4nm FinFET Granite Ridge (Zen 5) 170W
- 128MB L3 Cache
- 16MB L2 Cache
- Integrated AMD Radeon Graphics
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Key specifications
- Series
- Ryzen 9000 Series
- Cpu socket type
- AM5
Details
- Shipping Weight
- 0.10 Kg
- Shipping Dimensions
- 4.00 cm x 12.50 cm x 12.50 cm
- Name
- AMD Ryzen™ 9 9950X3D
- Family
- Ryzen
- Form Factor
- Desktops, Boxed Processor
- Market Segment
- Enthusiast Desktop
- AMD PRO Technologies
- No
- Regional Availability
- Global
- Former Codename
- Granite Ridge AM5
- Architecture
- Zen 5
- # of CPU Cores
- 16
- Multithreading (SMT)
- Yes
- # of Threads
- 32
- Max. Boost Clock
- Up to 5.7 GHz
- Base Clock
- 4.3 GHz
- L1 Cache
- 1280 KB
- L2 Cache
- 16 MB
- L3 Cache
- 128 MB
- Default TDP
- 170 W
- Processor Technology for CPU Cores
- TSMC 4nm FinFET
- Processor Technology for I/O Die
- TSMC 6nm FinFET
- Package Die Count
- 3
- Unlocked for Overclocking
- Yes
- AMD EXPO™ Memory Overclocking
- Yes
- Precision Boost Overdrive
- Yes
- Curve Optimizer Voltage Offsets
- Yes
- AMD Ryzen™ Master Support
- Yes
- Supporting Chipsets
- A620, X670E, X670, B650E, B650, X870E, X870, B840, B850
- CPU Boost Technology
- Precision Boost 2
- Instruction Set
- x86-64
- Supported Extensions
- AES, AVX512, AVX2, AVX, FMA3, MMX-plus, SSE2, SSE4.2, SSE4A, SSE4.1, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE, x86-64
- Thermal Solution (PIB)
- Not Included
- Recommended Cooler
- Liquid cooler recommended for optimal performance
- Max. Operating Temperature (Tjmax)
- 95°C
- OS Support
- Windows 11 (64-bit), Windows 10 (64-bit), RHEL x86 64-Bit, Ubuntu x86 64-Bit
- Native USB 3.2 Gen 2 (10Gbps)
- 4
- Native USB 2.0 (480Mbps)
- 1
- PCI Express® Version
- PCIe® 5.0
- Native PCIe® Lanes (Total/Usable)
- 28, 24
- NVMe Support
- Boot, RAID0, RAID1, RAID5, RAID10
- System Memory Type
- DDR5
- Memory Channels
- 2
- Max. Memory
- 192 GB
- System Memory Subtype
- UDIMM
- Max Memory Speed
- 2x1R DDR5-5600, 2x2R DDR5-5600, 4x1R DDR5-3600, 4x2R DDR5-3600
- ECC Support
- Yes (Requires motherboard support)
- Graphics Core Count
- 2
- Graphics Frequency
- 2200 MHz
- USB Type-C® DisplayPort™ Alt Mode
- Yes
- Supported Technologies
- AMD EXPO™ Technology, AMD Ryzen™ Technologies
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Poppy F. Used for: 1–3 months
Comment
Does everything, quickly. No notes at all
Oscar M. Used for: Less than a month
Comment
Bought it because I was tired of choosing between a work chip and a gaming chip, and this is genuinely both. Sixteen cores chew through a compile and the cache half handles games without any tinkering from me.
Willow N. Used for: 6–12 months
Pros
Gaming and rendering from one chip, no compromise either way
Cons
Windows occasionally parks a game on the wrong die
Comment
As a do everything chip it mostly delivers. Rendering and gaming in one box, no compromise on either, which is the point of the dual CCD design. What keeps it off five stars is the scheduling. Windows usually puts games on the cache heavy die, but not always, and when it gets it wrong you lose a chunk of frames until you restart the title. Ten months in and it still catches me out perhaps once a fortnight.
Freddie S. Used for: More than a year
Pros
Sixteen cores and the gaming cache in one part
Comment
Best of both worlds, and nothing I run has managed to slow it down
Florence P. Used for: 1–3 months
Pros
Very low idle draw for sixteen cores
Cons
You will want to spend an evening on the curve optimiser
Comment
On an X870E board the thing that has impressed me most is the idle behaviour. It sits under 20W doing nothing, which for a sixteen core part is remarkable, then wakes up properly the second you ask it to. The curve optimiser is worth an evening of your time.
Ella R. Used for: 6–12 months
Comment
My view has settled somewhere short of five stars. It is unarguably fast, and for a machine that has to do both jobs there is nothing else on AM5 that comes close. But the price gap to the eight core X3D part buys a lot of graphics card, and in games that is where the money actually shows. Right chip for the right person, wrong one for most. Seven months of owning one has not shifted that view.
Ava B. Used for: More than a year
Cons
A 280 AIO is the realistic minimum
Comment
Daily work on this is mostly Blender and Premiere with games in the evening, and it has never once made me wish I had bought two machines instead. All core loads finish quicker than my old Threadripper box did and it uses half the power doing it, and that has held for a year now. Only note is that it wants serious cooling, a 280 AIO is really the floor.
Theo P. Used for: 3–6 months
Pros
Takes a power limit gracefully in a small case
Cons
Out of the box it will happily cook itself
Comment
In a small form factor build the surprise has been how well it behaves in a tight case. Power limited to 140W it loses almost nothing in games and maybe eight percent in a full render, but the temperature drops by fifteen degrees. Not something I expected to be tuning, but glad I did.
