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forum threadDr.W posted Apr 25, 2026 04:32 PM
forum threadDr.W posted Apr 25, 2026 04:32 PM

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 16-Core, 32-Thread Unlocked Desktop Processor $499

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Apr 25, 2026 04:33 PM
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LavenderIdea284Apr 25, 2026 04:33 PM
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Stuck at 499 for 3 months. Not a good price
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Apr 25, 2026 04:52 PM
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NeatField3352Apr 25, 2026 04:52 PM
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Quote from LavenderIdea284 :
Stuck at 499 for 3 months. Not a good price
Its slower than a Core Ultra 7 270KF Plus yet it costs $200 more. Typical overpriced Ryzen cpu. But that will get you a thumbs down on this forum... a lot of "loyaltists" on here 😕
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Apr 25, 2026 05:02 PM
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LavenderIdea284Apr 25, 2026 05:02 PM
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Quote from NeatField3352 :
Its slower than a Core Ultra 7 270KF Plus yet it costs $200 more. Typical overpriced Ryzen cpu. But that will get you a thumbs down on this forum... a lot of "loyaltists" on here 😕
There are definitely a lot of irrational die-hard fans, but the price-to-performance difference isn't as big as $200. One annoying thing is that Intel requires a new motherboard almost every generation.
Because I need to run a lot of full-load Python tests, I just upgraded from a 7700X to a 9950X a few days ago. The nice thing is that upgrading the CPU didn't require changing other components, which saved me some time. And time is money, my friend. Especially in the U.S., where labor costs are high.
Additionally, the Core Ultra 7 270KF Plus has 8 performance cores and 16 efficiency cores. This makes scheduling during programming somewhat tricky. Sometimes heavy workloads are correctly assigned to performance cores, but other times they are inexplicably pushed onto efficiency cores, causing overall execution time to become unnecessarily long. Whether coding manually or with AI, debugging and adding extra scheduling logic also takes time. Again, time is money. AI usage is getting more expensive as well.
The 9950X, on the other hand, has a straightforward setup of 16 homogeneous cores, making execution times much more predictable. For me, this makes programming easier.
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