AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 has surfaced in Geekbench and PassMark databases, providing an early indication of performance for the company’s next flagship X3D desktop processor.
Geekbench: 3456 single core, 21062 multicore.
I guess the other must be passmark: 4739 single core, 70152 multi core.
That passmark number if it’s real is kind of insane. My doddering i7-3770 is around 9000 multi core, I think. And I’ve generally thought of it as a midrange machine.
i7-3770 is x4 cores from 2012. The 9950X3D2 has x16 cores. So you would expect somewhere around x4 improvement by default (give or take). Then there is nearly 14 years of architecture improvements.
If anything the differentials from passmark suggest that we’ve only had about 94% improvement in ST scores (if we assume your i7-3770 would have a 36,000 MT score if it had x16 cores).
That honestly seems low. I was actually using a i7-4703MQ laptop CPU until early 2025 and even benchmarks style use cases (opening Firefox) felt much more than X2 times slower than my 5800X desktop CPU.
And that’s low touch use cases. Complex single thread dependent strategy games were a massive challenge being the early game (even older ones from 12-15 years ago).
Performance benefits seem small, which is fine for a minor refresh - curious if there are any impacts to TDP.
A small performance boost paired with TDP reduction would be welcome. Otherwise you’re probably better off getting the original 9950x3d at a discount or waiting for the next generation.
The big development with 9950X3D2 is that both CCDs have the X3D cache, so you don’t have to rely on the OS scheduler.
