Early synthetic results point to a modest single- and multi-thread gain for AMD’s next 8-core X3D chip.
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(Image credit: AMD) A new PassMark entry has surfaced for AMD’s unreleased Ryzen 7 9850X3D, giving the first look at how the chip compares against the current 9800X3D , one of the best CPUs . The listing, which appeared in the database this week and was posted on X, reports a CPU Mark score of 41,840 from a single sample. That places it roughly 5% ahead of the 9800X3D’s 39,962-point average in the same benchmark. PassMark’s breakdown shows a single-thread score of 4,632, compared to the 9800X3D’s 4,425, again landing in the 5% range.
PassMark assigns a high margin of error to early submissions with only one system contributing data, but the figures track with the specifications already associated with the 9850X3D . Shipping details and an inadvertent AMD product-page appearance have pointed to an 8-core, 16-thread Zen 5 part with 96 MB of L3 cache, a 120 W TDP, and a 5.6 GHz boost clock. That is a straightforward frequency increase over the 9800X3D’s 5.2 GHz peak, and the uplift in PassMark’s single-thread test aligns with a step of that size.
The only subtest mentioned by the leakers was PassMark’s Memory Mark, where the new chip reportedly scored 4,421 points. A comparable 9800X3D baseline sits at 4,390. The 1% difference suggests no major change in memory behaviour, which is consistent with the absence of known platform or cache layout changes between the two parts.
AMD prepping new X3D chip with higher clock speeds
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