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.
