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(Image credit: AMD) Share Share by: Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Flipboard Share this article Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google In late October, AMD's mid-cycle Zen 5 refresh leaked , giving us a glimpse at two new X3D CPUs the company has in store for CES 2026. One of those was the Ryzen 7 9850X3D , a higher-boosting version of the existing 9800X3D, and which has been featured in several leaks over the past few weeks. The other chip was a lot more mysterious: a supposed dual-cache Ryzen 9 9950X3D2, but updates on it went radio silent ever since — today, it has finally reappeared on both PassMark and Geekbench .
In PassMark , the 9950X3D2 achieved a multi-score rating of 71,585 and a single-core rating of 4,716. Both of those numbers are within the margin of error of the 9950X and 9950X3D, but a bit far from the highest-scoring CPUs on the database. Keep in mind that PassMark listings can be fabricated, so take all this with a heavy grain of salt.
The 9950X3D2 is reported to carry a whopping 192 MB of total L3 cache, which PassMark confirms, achieved by stacking it across both CCDs. It features the same 16-core, 32-thread layout as the 9950X and 9950X3D, but instead of 3D V-Cache on just one chiplet, it's present underneath both. This doubles the otherwise 96 MB L3 cache (32 MB L3 + 64 MB X3D) to 192 MB.
AMD planning monstrous dual-cache Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 with 192MB of game-boosting L3 cache, according to leak
Ryzen 7 9850X3D edges past Ryzen 7 9800X3D in PassMark benchmark
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