AMD's new Ryzen AI Max+ chips and Ryzen 7 9850X3D court desktop enthusiasts at CES 2026

While it's bully to spot desktop support successful AMD's caller Ryzen AI 400 chips, demanding gamers and enthusiasts will apt beryllium much intrigued by nan company's adjacent batch of Ryzen AI Max+ chips, arsenic good arsenic nan caller Ryzen 7 9850X3D pinch 3D V-Cache. The erstwhile will make its measurement into mini desktops and a fistful of workhorse laptops, while nan second is different action for gamers who want nan velocity bump of 3D V-cache without shelling retired for nan $700 9950X3D.

Last year, AMD debuted its Ryzen AI Max chips arsenic a measurement to create a azygous portion of silicon pinch powerful CPU cores, GPU cores, NPUs and integrated memory, akin to Apple's home-brewed chips. At nan time, AMD VP Joe Macri besides noted that nan beingness of Apple Silicon helped make nan Ryzen AI Max chips possible.

"Many group successful nan PC manufacture said, well, if you want graphics, it's gotta beryllium discrete graphics because different group will deliberation it's bad graphics," Macri said astatine past year's CES. "What Apple showed was consumers don't attraction what's wrong nan box. They really attraction what nan what nan container looks like. They attraction astir nan screen, nan keyboard, nan mouse. They attraction astir what it does."

At CES this year, AMD is unveiled nan 12-core Ryzen AI Max+ 392 and eight-core Ryzen AI Max+ 388. Both chips characteristic boost speeds up to 5GHz, 50 TOPS NPUs and GPUs tin of 60 TFLOPs. We've seen nan earlier Ryzen AI Max chips successful nan Framework Desktop and the ROG Flow Z13, and we were mostly impressed pinch its performance. For mini systems, it was powerful capable that we really didn't miss having dedicated GPUs.

As for nan Ryzen 7 9850X3D, it's an 8-core spot that tin scope up to 5.6GHz boost speeds pinch 104MB of mixed L2 and L3 cache. Like each of AMD's X3D chips, it uses 3D V-cache exertion to vertically stack further cache memory. In comparison, nan modular 9850HX spot has 76MB of L2 and L3 cache.

AMD says nan caller Ryzen AI Max+ chips and nan 9850X3D will vessel successful nan first quarter. There's nary pricing accusation connected nan latter, yet, but recent leaked listings propose it whitethorn spell for astir $200. Rumors besides constituent to a monolithic dual-cache (192MB!) 9950X3D2 spot coming soon.