AMD’s next-generation desktop processors still don’t have a confirmed launch date, but Team Red isn’t done with this generation just yet, unveiling the Ryzen 7 9850X3D at CES 2026 along with a host of other chips.
Starting with the 9850X3D, it is essentially a faster version of the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, featuring the same number of cores, the same cache and TDP, but with an extra 400MHz max frequency. That might not sound like a whole lot, but the Ryzen 7 9800X3D is arguably the best gaming processor ever released, so making it even faster is going to garner a lot of interest.
