At CES 2026, AMD hyped up its forthcoming Ryzen 7 9850X3D model as succeeding the world’s current fastest gaming desktop processor. Ahead of a rumored January 29 launch, benchmark and diagnostic leaks continue to flow out. Allegedly impressive boost numbers have turned up via the Overclock.net forum; likely resulting from experiments conducted on another pre-release sample. In a Gigabyte X870 AORUS TACHYON ICE motherboard-centric thread, the leaker—OC_Beer—claims that their screenshot was supplied by an unnamed acquaintance. In the attached image, a partially-obscured CPU model name—most likely a Ryzen 7 9850X3D review unit—sits above eight individual cores (labelled #0 to 7) all achieving maximum clock rates of 5748.71 MHz.
This early overclocking activity has reached beyond Team Red’s reference boost clock of 5.6 GHz. The emerging Ryzen 7 9850X3D processor holds a main +400 MHz boost clock advantage over its close relative—the (also) eight-core Ryzen 7 9800X3D model. With the latter model in retail form, hardcore CPU tweakers have achieved all core boosts of around 5.4 to 5.6 GHz. The much-anticipated upcoming gaming champ could be finessed even further; chasers of big numbers are likely readying their test rigs—with main goals of hitting close to 7.0 GHz on finalized Ryzen 7 9850X3D units.