AMD’s gaming-optimized Ryzen 9 9900X3D CPU hits all all-time low price, finally makes sense — now just $50 more than a 9800X3D

AMD’s forgotten middle child of the gaming-optimized Ryzen 9000X3D family is on a serious discount, and can now be had at the same price-per-core as the Ryzen 9 9950X3D. AMD’s 12-core Ryzen 9 9900X3D is $499.99 on Amazon — a 17% discount from its usual $599.00 price point, and making it just $50 more expensive than the highly-acclaimed Ryzen 7 9800X3D, but with 50% more cores that help it chew through productivity tasks. If you find that you need an X3D chip with more than eight cores for work and…