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AMD Ryzen 9 9900X 12-Core 4.4 GHz Computer Processor, Socket AM5 (100-100000662WOF) $348.00 + Free Shipping

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Amazon [amazon.com] has AMD Ryzen 9 9900X 12-Core 4.4 GHz Computer Processor, Socket AM5 (100-100000662WOF) for $348.00. Shipping is free.


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  • The world's best gaming desktop processor that can deliver ultra-fast 100+ FPS performance in the world's most popular games
  • 12 Cores and 24 processing threads, based on AMD "Zen 5" architecture
  • 5.6 GHz Max Boost, unlocked for overclocking, 76 MB cache, DDR5-5600 support
  • For the state-of-the-art Socket AM5 platform, can support PCIe 5.0 on select motherboards
  • Cooler not included
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Frank_Nitty
05-13-2026 at 03:13 PM.
05-13-2026 at 03:13 PM.
This CPU should already be on sale for $300 by now...
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monkey02
05-13-2026 at 03:21 PM.
05-13-2026 at 03:21 PM.
is this better than 7950x3d???
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Mindcontrol
05-13-2026 at 03:43 PM.
05-13-2026 at 03:43 PM.
Quote from Frank_Nitty :
This CPU should already be on sale for $300 by now...
Yeah I bought it a little over a month ago for $319. $350 isn't the best price this has been. Not terrible but also not a great sale.
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Frank_Nitty
05-13-2026 at 06:01 PM.
05-13-2026 at 06:01 PM.
Quote from Mindcontrol :
Yeah I bought it a little over a month ago for $319. $350 isn't the best price this has been. Not terrible but also not a great sale.
I bought mine in "open box" condition during Prime Day last year for $306 since Amazon applied an add'l 30% off at checkout which is why I feel the current sale price is arbitrary.
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tripknotix
05-13-2026 at 06:55 PM.
05-13-2026 at 06:55 PM.
Quote from monkey02 :
is this better than 7950x3d???
No unfortunately, in rendering/compiling/encoding pretty much any kind of heavy workloads. And in gaming the 7950x automatically disables half the cores so that you dont have a latency issue where 8 cores communicate slowly with the other 8 cores. The 9900x also does this for gaming but its 6 cores communicating with 6 cores so in gaming it only uses 6 cores. While its 10% faster single performance improvement on the 9900x. Its actually 33% more cores on the 7950, so youre gaming on 8 cores vs cores. Netting you around an average 25% improvement in games and 28% in heavy workloads if you stick with the 7950x. For gaming the 9700x is faster. For heavy workloads the 9950x is faster but also has the ability to use 8 cores. So unfortunately the 9900x is the master of none, and is just a linear performance improvement on cost going from 9700x to 9900x would help in all Non gaming scenerous but hurt in gaming sceneriois
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05-13-2026 at 07:45 PM.

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05-13-2026 at 07:45 PM.
Quote from tripknotix :
No unfortunately, in rendering/compiling/encoding pretty much any kind of heavy workloads. And in gaming the 7950x automatically disables half the cores so that you dont have a latency issue where 8 cores communicate slowly with the other 8 cores. The 9900x also does this for gaming but its 6 cores communicating with 6 cores so in gaming it only uses 6 cores. While its 10% faster single performance improvement on the 9900x. Its actually 33% more cores on the 7950, so youre gaming on 8 cores vs cores. Netting you around an average 25% improvement in games and 28% in heavy workloads if you stick with the 7950x. For gaming the 9700x is faster. For heavy workloads the 9950x is faster but also has the ability to use 8 cores. So unfortunately the 9900x is the master of none, and is just a linear performance improvement on cost going from 9700x to 9900x would help in all Non gaming scenerous but hurt in gaming sceneriois
Sheesh, keep your brain focused dude. You're wandering all over the place. For productivity (like, not living out violent fantasies in video games), the 9900x is a substantially faster CPU than everything you mentioned.

Meantime, note that this is yet another 9900x thread about Amazon sellers of the exact same ASIN. Mods are refusing to police this because for the first time ever at SD, they think that every single "Other Sellers" price from any generic merchant qualifies as a "different" listing at Amazon.
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05-13-2026 at 07:46 PM.
05-13-2026 at 07:46 PM.
Quote from tripknotix :
No unfortunately, in rendering/compiling/encoding pretty much any kind of heavy workloads. And in gaming the 7950x automatically disables half the cores so that you dont have a latency issue where 8 cores communicate slowly with the other 8 cores. The 9900x also does this for gaming but its 6 cores communicating with 6 cores so in gaming it only uses 6 cores. While its 10% faster single performance improvement on the 9900x. Its actually 33% more cores on the 7950, so youre gaming on 8 cores vs cores. Netting you around an average 25% improvement in games and 28% in heavy workloads if you stick with the 7950x. For gaming the 9700x is faster. For heavy workloads the 9950x is faster but also has the ability to use 8 cores. So unfortunately the 9900x is the master of none, and is just a linear performance improvement on cost going from 9700x to 9900x would help in all Non gaming scenerous but hurt in gaming sceneriois
so if both are at the same price range , we should buy 7950x3d right ???
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tripknotix
05-18-2026 at 05:29 AM.
05-18-2026 at 05:29 AM.
Quote from monkey02 :
so if both are at the same price range , we should buy 7950x3d right ???
Yes you should but the 7950x3d
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tripknotix
05-18-2026 at 05:30 AM.
05-18-2026 at 05:30 AM.
Quote from amax :
Sheesh, keep your brain focused dude. You're wandering all over the place. For productivity (like, not living out violent fantasies in video games), the 9900x is a substantially faster CPU than everything you mentioned.Meantime, note that this is yet another 9900x thread about Amazon sellers of the exact same ASIN. Mods are refusing to police this because for the first time ever at SD, they think that every single "Other Sellers" price from any generic merchant qualifies as a "different" listing at Amazon.
My bad he was talking about the 7950x3d and not 7950x.
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