Ryzen 7 9850X3D edges past Ryzen 7 9800X3D in PassMark benchmark — upcoming X3D chip shows up to 4.7% higher performance

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…