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Since then, there have been a lucky few to snag the chip at the regular price.

All three offer the same $479 price tag.

AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D boxed held in front of a blue cloudy sky with Windows Central best award

AMD’s Ryzen 7 9800X3D is back in stock at MSRP.

AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor in motherboard socket

AMD’s Ryzen 7 9800X3D is the best CPU in the world for PC gamers.

Windows Central Best Award

AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D benchmark result graph for various PC games

AMD’s 9800X3D pulls ahead of Intel’s Core Ultra 9 285K in most games for FPS, with unusual data in Forza Horizon 5 likely caused by temporary bugs.

AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D slotted into ASRock X870E Taichi board

AMD Ryzen 5 5500

AMD Ryzen 7 9700X processor in motherboard socket

Gigabyte B650 AORUS ELITE AX ATX

AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor held in front of a blue cloudy sky

AMD Radeon RX 9000

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition power adapter in box

Asus Rog Zephyrus G14 Ryzen

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang addresses participants at the keynote of CES 2025 in Las Vegas, Nevada, on January 6, 2025.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition (front) compared to RTX 5090 Founders Edition (rear)

Diablo 4 Season 7 Season of the Witch

Marathon gameplay reveal

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during the United Nations General Assembly seen on a laptop computer in Hastings on the Hudson, New York, U.S., on Tuesday, Sept. 22. 2020.

Lenovo IdeaPad 5x 2-in-1 deal

Promotional screenshot of characters from Zenless Zone Zero

MSI Claw 8 AI+ propped up next to an ROG Ally X on a table.