AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D

Ryzen 9 9900X3D specifications

What these numbers mean for the Ryzen 9 9900X3D

On our index the Ryzen 9 9900X3D scores 98.0, which places it 4th of the 83 processors we track and puts it faster than roughly 96% of them.

The nearest part above the Ryzen 9 9900X3D is the Ryzen 7 9800X3D at 100.0, just 2.0% faster, and a gap of 2.0% is not visible while you are playing, so choosing between them is a price question rather than a performance one.

Gaming and multithread performance are reasonably balanced on the Ryzen 9 9900X3D at 98.0 for games against 152.0 for throughput, which makes a Ryzen 9 9900X3D a straightforward choice for a machine that both plays and works and leaves no particular workload it is secretly bad at.

With 12 cores and 24 threads the Ryzen 9 9900X3D has far more parallel capacity than any game will use. That capacity is worth paying for if you also render or stream on the processor and worth nothing if you only play, which is the whole case for reading its 152.0 multithread score separately from its gaming score.

Ryzen 9 9900X3D frame rate at each resolution

The Ryzen 9 9900X3D paired with the GeForce RTX 4090 on the High preset with 16 GB of system memory. Which part is the limit changes as the resolution climbs for this pair, which is why the Ryzen 9 9900X3D goes from 167 fps to 78 fps, a fall of 53%, across the three rows.

How the Ryzen 9 9900X3D compares

6 processors sit within 30% of the Ryzen 9 9900X3D on our gaming index, running from the Ryzen 7 9850X3D at +5% to the Core i9-14900KF at -3%, a window narrow enough that price, memory and power decide it rather than raw speed.

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