Initial AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D benchmarks highlight impressive single and multicore performance

Despite being unveiled at CES 2025, we're yet to see the AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D in action, even on benchmarking platforms like Geekbench. The Zen 5 X3D part succeeds the Ryzen 9 7945HX3D, and is expected to power more laptops than the Zen 4 part. Hot Hardware has now posted some Ryzen 9 9955X3D benchmarks.

It was tested alongside an MSI Titan 18 laptop, likely paired with a GeForce RTX 5090 or RTX 5080. In PCMark10, the Zen 5 X3D part scores 9,706 points. Unsurprisingly, it lags behind the Ryzen AI Max Plus 395 which scored 9,739. The situation is more or less the same in Geekbench, with the Strix Halo part leading in multithreaded performance. But the Ryzen 9 9955HX3D takes back the lead in single-core.

The situation is more or less the same in Cinebench 2024, with the Ryzen 9 9955HX3D leading the pack. Overall, these results confirm the Zen 5 HX3D laptop parts offer similar generational improvements as their desktop counterparts. Of course, their main purpose is to play games, but the chip would be pretty decent for productivity workloads, too.

Ideally, the Ryzen 9 9955HX3D should have the Arrow Lake-based Core Ultra 9 275HX beat in multithreaded workloads. Historically, Intel has taken the lead in single-core, but the above scores suggest the competition might be a lot tougher this generation.