AMD Ryzen 9 9950X

Cat. no. cpu-ryzen-9-9950x

Curator note

The AM5 pick for a one- or two-GPU box, on the ASUS ProArt X870E-Creator WiFi or ASRock X870E Taichi. Its 24 usable PCIe lanes give two GPUs x8 each plus fast storage, which is all AM5 can do. It costs far less than Threadripper and is quick for anything that spills onto the CPU, but two memory channels and a 256 GB ceiling limit large offloaded models.

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Specifications

Socket AM5 Source
Cores 16 Source
PCIe lanes 24 Source
PCIe gen 5 Source
Memory channels 2 Source
TDP 170 W Source

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