When it comes to upgrading your gaming rig, it often pays to wait for the reviews. But one eager Bulgarian company, PCBuild, couldn’t resist sharing insights about AMD’s newest Ryzen 9 9950X3D processor. Just before the official reviews were set to go live, they revealed benchmark results on Facebook regarding the chip’s performance, only to take it down shortly thereafter.

Fortunately, Videocardz was quick to capture the emerging details.

The Ryzen 9 9950X3D is an upgraded Zen 5 variant of its predecessor, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D, sporting a total of 16 cores and 32 threads. It’s equipped with 64MB of 3D V-Cache, strategically placed under one of its two Core Complex Dies (CCDs).

According to the leaked information, the processor achieved impressive core clock speeds during a Cinebench R23 test, with the first set of eight cores reaching 5.4 GHz and the other hitting up to 5.7 GHz. These numbers reflect AMD’s strategy of balancing cache with clock speeds, a pattern we also noticed with the Ryzen 7 9800X3D.

Specifically, PCBuild reported single-core and multi-core Cinebench scores of 2,279 and 42,413, respectively. This performance is comparable to the older Ryzen 9 9950X, indicating AMD’s consistent performance improvements.

However, one notable question remains: how effectively will AMD’s drivers manage the heavy load across the cores in intensive gaming scenarios? This planning was a challenge with the Ryzen 7950X3D, leading some users to manually manage threads to the V-Cached chip.

As we eagerly anticipate full reviews of the Ryzen 9 9950X3D, it’s clear that early insights point to a promising upgrade for gamers and content creators alike.