The Ryzen 7 9800X3D has been a phenomenal success among what had been a fairly underwhelming Zen 5 lineup – we called it the new gaming

AMD blames poor Intel Arrow Lake gaming performance for AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D stock issues in a CES 2025 executive interview this week.

Ryzen 7 9800X3D is proving unexpectedly popular in AMD's eyes, in part thanks to the middling reception of Intel's Core Ultra 200S CPUs.

Now a few weeks later, AMD is pinning the Ryzen 7 9800X3D shortage on Arrow Lake, though perhaps not entirely. During the round table discussion, McAfee called the demand for the 9800X3D "unprecedented" and noted that AMD has been ramping its manufacturing capacity, both for 9800X3D and also the Ryzen 7000X3D series.

AMD unveiled two new Ryzen 9 9000-series processors at CES 2025 with frame-rate-boosting 3D V-Cache as its latest top-end desktop chips for gamers and creators.

If you're in the process of building out a new gaming PC and you're looking for the best gaming processor, this is it. Right now, the recently released AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D AM5 desktop processor is back in stock at Amazon at its retail price of $479 shipped.

You won't want anything else than this processor for your next gaming rig, so long as your budget can stretch.