AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D and Ryzen 9 9900X3D show up on Geekbench with double-digit performance improvement over Zen 4 counterparts

After its grand reveal at CES 2025, AMD has been radio silent about the Ryzen 9 9900X3D and Ryzen 9 9950X3D. We don't have a price or a release date, but a recent Geekbench listing suggests the CPUs are close to launch. The test platform, for some reason, uses a last-gen X670E motherboard with 32 GB of DDR5-4800 MT/s RAM.

Starting with the Ryzen 9 9950X3D, it scores 3,363 and 20,465 points in Geekbench's single and multi-core tests, respectively. In comparison, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D scored 3,002 and 18,551 points in the same test. That represents a ~12% and ~10% uplift in single and multi-core, respectively. Moving on to the Ryzen 9 9900X3D, it nets 3,274 and 19,227 points in the same tests, making it 7% faster than the Ryzen 9 7900X3D in single-core and more or less identical in multi-core. This, of course, is based on one run conducted on a pre-production CPU and will only get better once the CPUs hit shelves.

In terms of raw performance, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D and Ryzen 9 9900X3D offer more or less the same uplift as other Zen 5 parts. Besides, the real gains will be apparent in games, which is where the CPUs 3D V-cache will kick in. While not officially confirmed, both chips will very likely come with the reverse CCD structure found on the 9800X3D and allow users to overclock their CPUs. Ryzen 9 parts are usually the best chips from a wafer, so they should potentially overclock better than their Ryzen 7 counterpart.