If you take a look at a list of top CPUs for PC gaming, you'll find something with the X3D suffix occupying most of the top spots. The newly launched AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D has seen huge demand resulting in many retailers running out of stock. AMD Corporate Vice President David McAfee has addressed this situation.

AMD Corporate Vice President and General Manager of Client Business David McAfee spoke during a lengthy interview with the YouTube channel HotHardware. The interview covered a range of topics relating to AMD's recent hardware releases, including the flagship 9950X3D.

X3D processor demand has been “very positive”

“Very, very positive on demand for the 9950X3D,” McAfee said. He explained that AMD was working on replenishing stock levels: “We’ve got a plan to continue to ramp our X3D capacity across both the 8-core offering as well as the higher core count Ryzen 9 products because we see very strong demand in both the Ryzen 7 space and anticipate strong demand in the Ryzen 9 space as well.”

Though the X3D suffix is usually associated with PC gaming, McAfee indicated that AMD plans to court content creators and developers, as well as PC gaming enthusiasts. This is, of course, thanks to the 16-core/32-thread count on the new flagship chip. McAfee continues, “I think the 9950X3D is uniquely positioned to be the best tool to do almost anything you do with your system. We're pretty optimistic about how gamers and creators and developers will all adopt the 9950X3D.”

Dave Altavilla, one of the interview hosts alongside Marco Chiapetta praised the aggressive price of the Ryzen 9 9950X3D: “It's a $699 MSRP. When you think about it that's still a relatively competitive price point for a top-end CPU. Marco and I remember when top-binned CPUs were $1000.”

How times have changed, now it tends to be GPUs that have eye-watering price points. A topic that McAfee addresses in another part of the interview when discussing the Radeon 9070 launch.

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