At the end of March AMD announced the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 processor with both dies having 3D V-Cache. This 16 core processor with 206MB of total cache is quit exciting and will be on sale later this month but AMD refrained from commenting on the price until today.

There were some early Internet listings that suggested the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 price could be around $990~1000 USD, but the official suggested price from AMD was announced today below that mark.

AMD's David McAfee posted on X minutes ago that the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition should be priced at $899 USD.

With the Ryzen 9 9950X3D being priced at around $699 USD, the $899 price may be justified for those with workloads that benefit from the extra cache. Certainly easier to justify than if pushing $1k USD.

It will be very interesting to see how the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 performs under a range of Linux workloads with many software packages enjoying the extra cache as shown in prior 3D V-Cache Ryzen and EPYC -X CPU benchmarks on Phoronix.

The Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition goes on sale 22 April.