AMD is set to launch the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 processor which was unveiled last month. There’s still a week to go before it goes on sale to the general public, but it looks like testers are putting the CPU through its paces, and the first benchmarks have surfaced. It is still too early to judge the performance of the 9950X3D2 since full details of the test methodology have not been revealed and the chip has not been pushed to its limit.
Tests shown on HWBOT were performed by user Stoikov and include 7-Zipcinebench 2026 (single and multi-core) and Cinebench R23 (multi-core). All four benchmarks appear to have been run with an air cooler, 32GB DDR5 RAM, Radeon RX 7900 XTX, on the Asus ROG Strix B850-A Gaming WIFI motherboard.
Starting with 7-Zip, the 9950X3D2 recorded 227,919 MIPS with the CPU reaching 5.13 GHz and 96 degrees C. The single-core Cinebench 2026 score was 746 points with a clock speed of 5.4 GHz and a temperature of 76 degrees Celsius. The multi-core score from https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/cinebench_-_2026_multiple_threads/submissions/6005559 was 9,246 points at a temperature of 96 degrees Celsius and a maximum clock speed of 5.19 GHz. Finally, the score of Cinebench R23 Multi Core was 38,579 points at 95 degrees C and a maximum clock speed of 5.19 GHz In terms of power consumption, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 reached a maximum of 220W in the Cinebench R23 test. The CPU-Z window shows a TDP of 200W for the processor. which corresponds to AMD’s estimate.
These are preliminary results for the chip and should not be considered final performance. Of course, some Ryzen 9 9950X3D benchmarks far exceed these numbers, but they involve more rigorous testing with harsh cooling solutions. AMD claims a 13% performance increase for the 9950X3D2 in certain tasks, but the additional L3 cache should translate to improved performance in games. We’ll have to wait for real-world testing which should appear online around April 22, when the processor will officially launch.
