AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D benchmarks: Counter-Strike 2, Cyberpunk 2077, Crysis 3 Remastered.

We've done the bulk of our testing with DDR5-6000 CL30 RAM, as this is the sweet spot for many AMD and Intel systems. Faster RAM than this tends to not deliver much extra performance on AM5, especially with these X3D processors being able to use their larger L3 caches to have to pull data from system memory less frequently.

Remember that you can mouse over the results in the tables below (as long as you're using a desktop browser rather than a phone) to get dynamically generated performance readouts for all processors we've tested. Meanwhile, clicking the graph swaps you into percentages, making it a bit easier to judge relative performance at a glance.

This page is about first-person shooter frame-rates, or FPS fps. Our titles here are a good mix of new and classic releases, including the premiere esports FPS in Counter-Strike 2, RT powerhouse Cyberpunk 2077 and recently upgraded classic Crysis 3 Remastered.

Counter-Strike 2

Counter-Strike 2 is a lovely rebuild of a game that has entertained for decades, and it also demands extremely high frame-rates for top level competition. The 9950X3D doesn't quite displace the 9800X3D as the best option for aspiring pros, with a slightly lower frame-rate than the 9800X3D throughout the test, but with a 1.2 percent margin to the eight-core design it's safe to say you won't face a competitive disadvantage if you want more cores.

Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 shows the 9950X3D a bit further behind the 9800X3D, but there's still only a three percent margin between the two options - and even the 9950X3D is head and shoulders above other CPUs.

Crysis 3 Remastered

Crysis 3's cutscenes are indelibly seared into my memory now, after running these benchmarks hundreds of times, but the game still looks good after all this time - especially in this 2021 remaster. The game exhibits a bit more GPU load than our other tests, with tied results for the 9950X3D and 9800X3D but a still noteworthy 20 percent advantage from the 9950X to the 9950X3D.

AMD Ryzen 7 9950X3D analysis

• Introduction, test rig and content creation benchmarks
• Gaming benchmarks: Dragon's Dogma 2, Baldur's Gate 3, Starfield
• Gaming benchmarks: Flight Simulator 2020, F1 24, Forza Horizon 5
• Gaming benchmarks: Counter-Strike 2, Cyberpunk 2077, Crysis 3 Remastered [this page]
• Gaming benchmarks: Far Cry 6, Hitman World of Assassination
• Power analysis: Counter-Strike 2, Far Cry 6, Forza Horizon 5
• AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D: the Digital Foundry verdict