AMD Ryzen 9 9950X vs AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D

Compare AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 16 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 16 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D

Price

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$ 532.18

$ 135.62 slightly less expensive

$ 667.80

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

17229 points

5% slightly better overall score

16302 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

15130 points

3% slightly better gaming score

14590 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

17969 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

16961 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

18272 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

17329 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

16731 points

17230 points

2% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

605.81 points

643.21 points

6% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

21438 points

22134 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

3385 points

3395 points

0.30% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.3 GHz

Identical

4.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.7 GHz

Identical

5.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

170 W

Identical

170 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

1280 KiB

Identical

1280 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

16 MiB

Identical

16 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

64 MiB

128 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

7th of 1,089

14th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2024 August

2025 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 9 9950X vs Ryzen 9 9950X3D benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 9950X3D performs better than the Ryzen 9 9950X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 9950X in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Both the Ryzen 9 9950X and Ryzen 9 9950X3D have the same clock speed. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Ryzen 9 9950X3D also has significantly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 9950X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.