Retail leak hints at September 30th release date for AMD’s Ryzen 9 3950X
Retail leak hints at September 30th release date for AMD’s Ryzen 9 3950X
AMD’s Ryzen 3rd Generation processors may be impressive, but the best is yet to come. Yes, AMD has delivered 12 cores on AM4 with their Ryzen 9 3900X, but what if we go even further beyond? AMD’s Ryzen 9 3950X is due to release soon, and with it will come higher boost clocks, 16 cores and 72MB of total L2/L3 cache.
The Swiss retailer digitec.ch has listed AMD’s upcoming Ryzen 9 3950X processor with a release date of September 30th. This suggests that AMD’s flagship AM4 Zen 2 processor will release at the end of this month; before Intel has a chance to release their i9-9900KS or X299’s Cascade Lake series of processors.
With the Ryzen 9 3950X, AMD is bringing Threadripper-like core counts to AM4, complete with the IPC gains and efficiency gains that their Zen 2 architecture and 7nm manufacturing has provided. Below are the specifications of AMD’s Ryzen 3rd Generation (Zen 2) processors.
We expect AMD to announce the Ryzen 9 3950X’s release date soon.
| Cores | Threads | Base Clock | Boost Clock | L2 + L3 Cache | PCIe 4.0 | TDP | Price | |
| Ryzen 9 3950X | 16 | 32 | 3.5GHz | 4.7GHz | 8+64 MB | 16+4+4 | 105W | $749 |
| Ryzen 9 3900X | 12 | 24 | 3.8GHz | 4.6GHz | 6+64 MB | 16+4+4 | 105W | $499 |
| Ryzen 7 3800X | 8 | 16 | 3.9GHz | 4.5GHz | 4+32 MB | 16+4+4 | 105W | $399 |
| Ryzen 7 3700X | 8 | 16 | 3.6GHz | 4.4GHz | 4+32 MB | 16+4+4 | 65W | $329 |
| Ryzen 5 3600X | 6 | 12 | 3.8GHz | 4.4GHz | 3+32 MB | 16+4+4 | 95W | $249 |
| Ryzen 5 3600 |
6 | 12 | 3.6GHz | 4.2GHz | 3+32 MB | 16+4+4 | 65W | $199 |
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