AMD Unveils Ryzen 7 9850X3D and AI 400 Series at CES

At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, AMD unveiled the Ryzen 7 9850X3D processor, an upgraded version of its popular gaming desktop chip, alongside the new Ryzen AI 400 series of mobile processors designed to enhance AI capabilities in laptops and select desktops.

The Ryzen 7 9850X3D builds on the Ryzen 7 9800X3D, which has been praised for its performance in gaming applications due to the company's 3D V-Cache technology that stacks additional L3 cache for faster data access. Both processors share eight cores, 16 threads, a 120-watt thermal design power, 104 megabytes of combined L2 and L3 cache, and compatibility with the AM5 socket. The key difference lies in the maximum boost clock, which increases to 5.6 gigahertz from 5.2 gigahertz on the previous model. AMD stated that this adjustment delivers performance gains in games such as Baldur's Gate 3, where it is 1.6 times faster than Intel's Core Ultra 9 285K, and Counter-Strike 2, with a 1.48 times improvement. Other benchmarks show uplifts of 1.32 times in Cyberpunk 2077 and 1.23 times in Star Wars Outlaws. The chip also maintains integrated graphics similar to its predecessor, a two-core Radeon GPU capable of basic...