AMD’s powerful Ryzen 9 9950X crashes to a new low price in early Prime Day deal
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If you’re after one of the best CPUs out there right now, you can expect to see it full of Ryzen processors, in particular, the Ryzen 9 9950X offers the full extent of the cores and threads from the Zen 5 processor. Offering both gaming and creative performance, it’s a well-rounded option, as we found in our 9950X review, and now it’s available at a heavy discount.
Right now, you can get it with a 33% discount, which drops it to way below $500 and to the lowest it’s ever been on Amazon, according to price tracking sites. That impressive sale cuts $215 off the $649 MSRP, making it available for $434 with an Amazon Prime account.
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X features
- Built for Creators, engineered for gamers – Achieve ultra-fast 100+ FPS performance in today’s most popular games, combining the power content creators need with the speed gamers demand.
- 16 Cores, 32 Threads, powered by AMD “Zen 5” – Experience next-gen multitasking and performance with 16 high-efficiency cores and 32 threads built on the advanced AMD Zen 5 architecture.
- Unlocked performance, up to 5.7 GHz Boost – Push your system to the limit with a max boost clock of 5.7 GHz, 80MB of combined cache, and support for high-speed DDR5-5600 memory. Fully unlocked for overclocking.
- Ready for the AM5 platform & PCIe 5.0 – Designed for the cutting-edge AM5 socket, with support for PCIe 5.0 on select motherboards for next-gen connectivity and speed.
- Cooler not included – A high-performance liquid cooler is recommended to get the most out of this powerful processor.
Why buy the 9950X
The 9950X is the ideal option for those looking to do creative work and gaming on the same machine, especially when you don’t have extra cash to spring for the 9950X3D. Instead, you can save that $200 or so to put towards an even better graphics card to get quite the ultimate all-around machine.
- Cores: 16
- Threads: 32
- Boost clock speed: 5.7 GHz
- Base clock speed: 4.3 GHz
- L3 Cache: 64 MB
- TDP: 170 W
- Platform: AMD Socket AM5
- Strong multi-core performance
- Can be boosted a lot with PBO
- 16 cores can tackle heavy workloads
- Best performing AMD CPU so far
- Expensive – wait for a price reduction
- Will likely be outperformed by Intel’s Arrow Lake flagship
- Still suffers from AMD’s efficiency obsession
As we wrote in our review:
The 9950X is certainly a capable CPU with a lot to offer those looking for strong multi-threaded performance. PPBO can ramp this CPU up a few notches, but you’d better be ready to cool it. It eats 240mm AIOs for breakfast when PBO is enabled
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It makes it a top pick, and with the savings, a value pick. Especially as CamelCamelCamel’s price history of the CPU shows it to be at the lowest price yet (although the graph has not refreshed to reflect this). Previously, it had dipped to $517 in May, but now it has fallen even further in an early Prime Day deal to give you a chance to buy it for cheap before the rest of the deals start.
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