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(ed:AMDhas just announced the price of the 9950X3D and the 9900X3D.

The 9950X3D is particularly enticing with a per-core cost under $44).

AMD Ryzen 9950X

The four non-3D Zen 5-based AMD Ryzen processors top our leaderboard when it comes to price per core.

Not bad for a near-flagship CPU launched less than one year ago.

The table of all the CPUs I have analyzed can be found at the end of this article.

They have been sorted by cost per core.

Some CPUs are not yet on sale at the time of writing.

A value 192-core CPU?

It delivers a very rough composite efficiency metric.

Id like to draw your attention to the existence of the Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7945WX.