AMD’s world-beating 9800X3D chips destroyed the competition and promptly sold out. Why?
David McAfee, AMD’s corporate vice president and general manager of its Client Channel Business, and Frank Azor, the chief architect of gaming solutions and gaming marketing at AMD, sat down with reporters to give their answer: Intel’s competing Arrow Lake chip simply stunk.
In PCWorld’s review of the 9800X3D, we said that the chip obliterated Intel’s best. At the same time, supplies of the part — a single chip, mind you — promptly sold out. And now AMD has added the 9950X3D, an even more powerful chip, to the lineup.
For more details, including why AMD’s new GPUs weren’t included in the company’s CES 2025 keynote, the future of AI-rendered pixels, and how the new AMD AI Max chip shapes up to traditional gaming notebooks, see our Q&A with AMD’s executives.
Put simply, AMD simply didn’t anticipate the disparity between its own product and Intel’s. …