Can the 12-core Ryzen 9 9900X offer better performance than we've seen from other Ryzen 9000 CPUs so far or is it still not worth buying?

Best Buy has already sold out of both CPUs, though Amazon still has a few in stock.

The big score is the one for the 9950X. This 7.44 GHz almost matches the highest frequency I could find on HWBot for the previous-gen AMD Ryzen 9 7950X, which is 7.47 GHz, achieved by overclocker rog-fisher. But that these new chips have only been out a day, and the fact they're already approaching that previous-gen record is neat.

The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X is available August 15, starting at $649. Keep in mind, though, that this is just the suggested price. Retailers are absolutely free to up the price according to demand, so you might see higher price tags in the first couple of weeks.

The Digital Foundry review of the AMD Ryzen 9 9900X and 9950X, with the test rig, content creation benchmarks and much more.

AMD's enthusiast-class Ryzen 9 9950X and Ryzen 9 9900X are the highest performance Zen 5 processors in the line-up, and here's how they perform.