A new flagship X3D branded Ryzen Pro chip could be on the way

AMD added four new Ryzen Pro desktop chips to its portfolio in September last year with three of them being part of the Ryzen Pro 9000 series. These are processors configured for productivity and targeted towards professionals, so they lack the higher core counts and large amounts of cache that AMD’s gaming focussed chips boast. Now, it looks like the first X3D branded Ryzen Pro chip is on the way, but details are scarce for now.

Known leaker Olrak29_ has once again dug into the NBD shipping manifest and found a new Ryzen Pro CPU that AMD has not shared any information about. The CPU is branded as the Ryzen 9 Pro 9965X3D and as per the minimal specifications attached to it, the chip sits at the very top of the latest Ryzen Pro 9000 series portfolio.

All three previously released Ryzen Pro 9000 series chips max out at 12 cores but the reported Ryzen 9 Pro 9965X3D is said to come with 16 cores. It also has significantly higher power draw of 170W, compared to 65W for the rest. While cache specs are unclear at this point, the X3D branding suggests it will come with much higher L3 cache than the current flagship Ryzen 9 Pro 9945 (76MB total cache) chip. It is also unclear if AMD will be using its newer 3D V-cache design like with the rumored Ryzen 9 9950X3D2.

Notably, there is no official information from AMD about the Ryzen 9 Pro 9965X3D yet, so there is no release date attached to it either. If the shipping manifest listing is accurate, more information can be expected in the next few weeks.