The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D has been noticed in a benchmark leak, marking the primary time the extensively anticipated chip has apparently appeared out on this planet being examined. The 16-core flagship gaming CPU of AMD’s Zen 5 Ryzen lineup is predicted to supply specs just like the Ryzen 9 7950X3D, however with a slight increase in all-round efficiency.

With our AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D evaluation displaying this chip to be the present very best gaming CPU round, there’s a variety of cause to be all for what a 16-core chip primarily based on AMD’s newest expertise can do. Earlier 16-core X3D variants, such because the 7950X3D and 5950X3D, haven’t been as quick in terms of gaming, as a result of means the X3D cache is configured. Nevertheless, there’s hypothesis that the brand new 16-core chips might use a unique X3D configuration, which can untap their gaming efficiency.

This AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D leak comes from a benchmark for the sport Factorio, with the end result proven on the FactorioBox benchmark web site. It clearly exhibits the total title of the processor as having been used for the top-scoring benchmark run, although no different specs of the chip are listed, so we will’t affirm the quantity of L3 cache or clock velocity of the chip.

Clicking on the benchmark end result exhibits the check was run with a barely ludicrous 256GB of 6,000MT/s RAMm and was run on a 64-bit model of Home windows through Steam. Exterior of that, although, no particulars are given in regards to the system.

As for the benchmark end result itself, the 9950X3D does prime the chart, with the likes of the 9800X3D and 14900K following behind. Nevertheless, this benchmark additionally places the 5800X3D forward of another Intel chip, so it clearly has a powerful AMD X3D bias. Furthermore, the benchmark does word on the prime of its web page that “outcomes differ relying on CPU clock, reminiscence clock, reminiscence timings, and so on., so take these numbers with a grain of salt.”

Finally, the efficiency advised right here isn’t significantly related. Nevertheless, the reveal of the total title of the chip is an enormous deal, with this being the primary time we’ve seen it totally named on a benchmark run.

As for what else we will count on from the chip, it would nearly definitely use the Zen 5 structure, as different 9000 sequence CPUs, and we will count on it to make use of the brand new 2nd-gen model of 3D V-Cache, which has the cache sitting underneath the CPU core die, somewhat than on prime of it like with earlier variations of 3D V-Cache. This modification is what has allowed the 9800X3D to run at greater clock speeds than the 7800X3D, and it might open up the efficiency faucets of the 9950X3D too.

If that’s all that’s completely different in regards to the cache on the 9950X3D, it’s unlikely to outpace the 9800X3D for gaming efficiency. That’s as a result of the 16-core X3D chips use two CPU core dies, however solely stack the additional 3D V-Cache die on a type of CPU core dies. This implies eight of the cores don’t have speedy entry to the 64MB of 3D V-Cache, and there may be latency points for knowledge being handed from one CPU core die to a different.

If the 9950X3D makes use of two 3D V-Cache dies, or has the only die one way or the other higher shared throughout all 16 cores, it might unlock extra efficiency. Nevertheless, that is all hypothesis for now.

The rumor is that AMD will likely be unveiling the 9950X3D and probably a six-core 9650X3D on the CES commerce present in January 2025, so we received’t have too lengthy to attend to search out out the precise scenario. For now, although, the 9800X3D stays the highest CPU of the second, and is prone to nonetheless be a best choice even when the 9950X3D does handle to barely edge it on general efficiency.

Whereas we wait to search out out precisely what the 9950X3D has in retailer for us, although, why not take a look at our Intel Core Extremely 265K evaluation, to see how Intel’s very newest gaming CPU stacks up towards the competitors?