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Newegg is offering the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D at $429, down from its $469 retail price, with an additional $40 discount using a promo code. The deal includes a free MSI MAG CoreLiquid A13 240 Black AIO cooler valued at $70 and the game Onimusha: Way of the Sword, also worth $70. This package provides a combined value of approximately $210 more than the CPU's original launch price.
During Prime Big Deals Day, Team Group's 32GB DDR5 memory kits, including the Delta RGB at 5200 MT/s and the Vulcan Eco at 6400 MT/s, are available at reduced prices. The Delta RGB kit is now $389.99 after an 18% discount, making it one of the most affordable options for gamers and builders seeking DDR5 memory. These kits support overclocking features like XMP and EXPO, catering to different performance needs and system configurations.
Microsoft is expected to reveal pricing and a release date for its Surface Laptop Ultra at an upcoming event, according to the report. The laptop, first shown in June, is among the first devices to use NVIDIA's new RTX Spark chip, an Arm-based processor built for running large AI models locally, and features a 15-inch mini-LED display with up to 2,000 nits of brightness.
MSI's Stealth A18 AI+ gaming laptop is currently discounted to $3,779, a $520 saving. The configuration includes an RTX 5090 mobile GPU with 24GB of GDDR7 VRAM, a 12-core AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 CPU, 64GB of DDR5 RAM, and a 2TB SSD.
GMKtec has launched the Evo-X5 Pro, an AI-focused mini-PC built around AMD's top-tier Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 495 chip paired with 192GB of LPDDR5X-8533 memory. The 2TB SSD configuration costs $6,799, while the 4TB version reaches $7,099, with the chip's three power profiles ranging from 54W to 160W peak.
A solo developer working on a Minecraft-style voxel game called Block Game (working title) implemented a custom software occlusion culling system to improve rendering performance, particularly on weak integrated GPUs like the Radeon Vega 8. The developer reports the system runs in roughly half a frame at 60 FPS, culling 50-60% of chunks above ground and up to 95% underground, pushing framerates above 400 in cave scenes.
A comparison of AMD's Ryzen 7 X3D processors from 2022 to 2024 (5800X3D, 7800X3D and 9800X3D) shows Geekbench 6 scores rising roughly 47% on single-core and 58% on multi-core tasks. Clock speed increases were modest, from 4.5 GHz to 5.2 GHz max boost, while transistor counts grew about 50%, from roughly 11 billion to 16 billion, mostly added to the processor core rather than cache.
Newegg is offering a two-item combo pairing AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D gaming CPU with an MSI MAG X870E Gaming Max Wifi motherboard for $578.99, down from $727.99. The deal also throws in a free Cooler Master Elite Liquid 240 AIO cooler worth $80, and the discount effectively makes this the cheapest way to get the 9800X3D.
A review of System76's Pangolin Pro laptop highlights its large glass trackpad, a basic 2-MP webcam, and an easily accessible chassis secured by nine visible screws that allows users to upgrade RAM, SSDs, and WiFi cards. The review also notes that AMD Ryzen chips still lack Coreboot support, meaning the laptop doesn't run fully open firmware, and praises the bundled Pop!_OS Linux with its Cosmic Desktop for a smooth daily-use experience.
Newegg is offering a high-end PC parts bundle combining AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 CPU, an 8TB Samsung 9100 Pro SSD, an MSI X870E Gaming Plus WiFi motherboard, and 32GB of V-Color DDR5-6000 memory for $2,999, down from a combined retail price of $4,288. The deal also throws in a free Cooler Master 240mm AIO cooler and a copy of Onimusha with qualifying AMD purchases. Buyers still need to add a case, power supply, and graphics card to complete the build.
An early Geekbench 7 submission attributed to Apple's unreleased A20 Pro chip shows single-core and multi-core scores of 4,006 and 11,460, roughly 23% and 27% higher than the A19 Pro. The result reportedly tops single-thread scores from AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D and Intel's Core i9-14900KS by 26% and 32% respectively.
AMD has introduced two new six-core, twelve-thread desktop chips: the $99 Ryzen 5 5500F for aging AM4 motherboards and the $189 Ryzen 5 7500 for newer AM5 systems. The 7500 is a Zen 4 chip with integrated RDNA 2 graphics, essentially a graphics-enabled version of the existing 7500F, while the 5500F is a Zen 3 chiplet-based part built on the Vermeer design that adds PCIe 4.0 support missing from the standard Ryzen 5 5500.