The flagship Zen 5 X3D chip gets benchmarked ahead of the official launch and here's how it performs with air cooling.
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Appears on HWBot for the First Time in 7-Zip and Cinebench Benchmarking
The fastest Zen 5 X3D chip has already been tested by someone, as can be seen from the uploaded benchmarks on HWBot. AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition, which was revealed two weeks ago, was tested by a Bulgarian user, "Stoikov". There are currently four benchmarks available on the HWBot website, including 7-Zip, Cinebench 2026 Single and Multi-Threaded, and Cinebench R23 Multi-core.
The scores aren't what you would expect, as despite being a flagship processor, its potential was limited by the cooling solution used. It is unclear whether the user utilized a stock AMD cooler or an aftermarket air cooler, but whatever it was, it seemed inadequate for such a monstrous 16-core/32-thread chip that has two CCDs to cool. The temperature can be seen reaching the maximum operating temperature of 95°C for the chip and sometimes even exceeding that.
In some tests, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 reached 95°C, while in others it peaked at 96°C. So, it clearly shows that the air cooler was thermal throttling the CPU. Nonetheless, the setup comprises an ASUS ROG Strix B850-A Gaming WiFi motherboard, 32 GB DDR5 RAM, and a Radeon RX 7900 XTX GPU. In 7-Zip, the CPU scored 227,919 MIPS at 5.13 GHz, and similarly, the CPU couldn't go past 5.2 GHz in Cinebench 2026 and Cinebench R23 multi-threaded tests, where it scored 9,246 CB and 38,579 CB, respectively.
However, the CPU jumped to a good 5.5 GHz in Cinebench 2026 Single-Threaded test, scoring a good 746 cb, which sits at the 37th position on the leaderboard. Still, not that impressive, but considering the CPU hit just 76°C, the CPU could have done better.
No gaming tests or benchmarks are available yet, which will be interesting to see given that the dual X3D chiplets are deployed to boost its gaming prowess as well.
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