AMD

AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D

Ryzen 9000Released March 12, 2025Launch price $599

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Geekbench 6 CPU Single-core2,689points#13 of 16 Geekbench 6 CPU Multi-core20,325points#10 of 16 Cinebench 2024 Multi-core1,870points#8 of 17 Counter-Strike 2 1080p Ultra685fps#6 of 17

Twelve cores with 3D V-Cache on one six-core chiplet. It is faster than the 9900X in games but trails the eight-core X3D chips there, since only six cores sit on the cache, and it is slower than the 16-core parts in work. A hard sell unless it is priced well below the 9950X3D and near the 9800X3D.

Against the line-up

Geekbench 6 CPU Single-core · points

#13 of 16 · Geekbench Browser
  1. 1Ryzen 9 9950X3D23,163
  2. 2Ryzen 7 9850X3D3,122
  3. 3Ryzen 9 9950X3D3,058
  4. 4Ryzen 9 9950X3,048
  5. 12Core Ultra 7 265K2,717
  6. 13Ryzen 9 9900X3D2,689
  7. 14Core i9-14900K2,661

Geekbench 6 CPU Multi-core · points

#10 of 16 · Geekbench Browser
  1. 1Ryzen 9 9950X3D228,167
  2. 2Core Ultra 7 270K Plus27,402
  3. 3Ryzen 9 9950X3D26,572
  4. 4Core Ultra 9 285K25,837
  5. 9Core Ultra 5 250K Plus21,849
  6. 10Ryzen 9 9900X3D20,325
  7. 11Ryzen 7 9850X3D19,488

Cinebench 2024 Multi-core · points

#8 of 17 · Tom's Hardware
  1. 1Ryzen 9 9950X3D22,529
  2. 2Core Ultra 7 270K Plus2,509
  3. 3Ryzen 9 9950X3D2,423
  4. 4Ryzen 9 9950X2,344
  5. 7Core Ultra 7 265K2,058
  6. 8Ryzen 9 9900X3D1,870
  7. 9Core Ultra 5 250K Plus1,860

Counter-Strike 2 1080p Ultra · fps

#6 of 17 · Tom's Hardware
  1. 1Ryzen 7 9850X3D758
  2. 2Ryzen 9 9950X3D742
  3. 3Ryzen 7 9800X3D736
  4. 4Ryzen 9 9950X3D2732
  5. 5Ryzen 7 7800X3D710
  6. 6Ryzen 9 9900X3D685
  7. 7Ryzen 9 9950X675

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p Ultra · fps

#6 of 17 · Tom's Hardware
  1. 1Ryzen 7 9850X3D148
  2. 2Ryzen 7 9800X3D143
  3. 3Ryzen 9 9950X3D141
  4. 4Ryzen 9 9950X3D2141
  5. 5Ryzen 7 7800X3D122
  6. 6Ryzen 9 9900X3D119
  7. 7Core i9-14900K117

Blender Benchmark samples/min

#9 of 17 · Blender Open Data
  1. 1Ryzen 9 9950X3D2687
  2. 2Ryzen 9 9950X3D663
  3. 3Ryzen 9 9950X625
  4. 4Core Ultra 7 270K Plus611
  5. 8Core Ultra 7 265K478
  6. 9Ryzen 9 9900X3D473
  7. 10Core Ultra 5 250K Plus433

The whole Processors line-up side by side, with prices

Every benchmark

Quoted from the publications that ran them; we don't test hardware ourselves. Figures from different publications were run on different systems and scenes, so compare within a row's source.

Cyberpunk 2077

SettingResultSource
1080p Ultra
one source		 119fps Tom's Hardware, Apr 21, 2026
GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition

Counter-Strike 2

SettingResultSource
1080p Ultra
one source		 685fps Tom's Hardware, Apr 21, 2026
GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition

Blender Benchmark

SettingResultSource
Standard run
one source		 473samples/min Blender Open Data, Oct 19, 2026
Median of 33 user CPU results, Blender 4.5.0

Geekbench 6 CPU

SettingResultSource
Multi-core
one source		 20,325points Geekbench Browser, Sep 16, 2026
Geekbench Browser's processor chart (average of user-submitted results), as archived on 16 Sep 2026
Single-core
one source		 2,689points Geekbench Browser, Sep 16, 2026
Geekbench Browser's processor chart (average of user-submitted results), as archived on 16 Sep 2026

Cinebench 2024

SettingResultSource
Multi-core
one source		 1,870points Tom's Hardware, Apr 21, 2026

Sources

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