AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D benchmarks: Far Cry 6, Hitman World of Assassination.

We see out our regular game benchmark suite with two sneaky-beaky titles that are at their best when things are going wrong: Far Cry 6 and Hitman World of Assassination. Far Cry is famously dependent on single-core speeds, while Hitman's "Best" simulation quality setting makes it a stern test in its own right.

In the next page, we'll have a quick look at the 9950X3D in terms of power efficiency, but for now let's close things out in style.

Far Cry 6

Far Cry 6 loves single-core grunt and has historically done well with 3D V-Cache packages, and we see the 9950X3D and 9800X3D out ahead as usual. The eight-core design holds a small three percent advantage here over the 9950X3D, but the next-nearest challenger is the 7800X3D at 87 percent of the 9950X3D's strength. The 9950X to 9950X3D advantage is a cool 35 percentage points.

Hitman World of Assassination

Hitman World of Assassination, better known as Hitman 3 to its friends, includes a great built-in benchmark that shows a Dartmoor mansion being reduced to rubble by an invisible hand. The best simulation quality here is critical in producing a hard CPU test, as is the choice of DLSS performance to minimise GPU load. The 9950X3D is around two percent faster than the 9800X3D here, with a 33 percent lead over the 9950X, 23 percent lead over the 14900K and 36 percent lead over the 285K.

AMD Ryzen 7 9950X3D analysis

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• Gaming benchmarks: Counter-Strike 2, Cyberpunk 2077, Crysis 3 Remastered
• Gaming benchmarks: Far Cry 6, Hitman World of Assassination [this page]
• Power analysis: Counter-Strike 2, Far Cry 6, Forza Horizon 5
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