AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D CPU Review: Fastest 8-Core

[Brent_Justice]

Introduction The AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D was announced at CES 2026, and now it is launching with availability on January 29th, 2026, with an MSRP of $499. The AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D is AMD’s top-end single-CCD spec with 3D V-Cache with the intent to directly provide the best gaming experience, and is marketed as a […]

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[Grimlakin]

That is an impressive 8 core single CCD CPU. Very nice...

Would be neat to see what a single CCD 12 core 3dvcache CPU would be awesome.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Exactly what we expected.

 

[Tyler-98-W68]

This is the only review showing less power use vs the 9800x3d, all other tests show the 9850x3d consuming more power.

 

[David_Schroth]

This is the only review showing less power use vs the 9800x3d, all other tests show the 9850x3d consuming more power.

Brent can probably speak to this better, but there's a ton of variables that go into power consumption - including the game, the game resolution and game settings that are selected for testing. We don't typically do far ranging power analysis - Toms, for example, seems to be running all their standard tests through benchlab which makes it easy to pull together a ton of power graphs that correlate to the benchmarks run. Our power testing tends to focus on games.

There can also be differences in where the power is measured - benchlab (which they used on the power testing page) is an external to the system pass through that doesn't directly measure CPU usage, whereas we're pulling our power measurements from HWiNFO64. Though, really, I can't tell what method they used to measure CPU power usage in their gaming benchmarks as it's not disclosed....