AMD is jumping ahead of Intel's pending Arrow Lake launch by making a rather vague announcement that its next-gen Ryzen 9000X3D processor will launch on November 7. AMD also announced that it is trimming the recommended customer pricing (RCP) for its standard Ryzen 9000 series via a holiday promo starting yesterday, October 20. The promo cuts $50 off the price of its flagship Ryzen 9 9950X and $30 off the 9900X, Ryzen 7 9700X, and Ryzen 5 9600X.
The current-gen Ryzen 7000X3D processors are the unquestioned fastest gaming CPUs on the market. It doesn't look like Intel's Arrow Lake, which launches this week, will change that — in fact, Intel's new lineup appears to offer little in the way of gaming performance improvements, if any at all, over the company's prior-gen lineup. That leaves the door wide open for AMD to continue dominating the gaming market with its X3D chips.
