As always Phoronix.com is among the first to test drive new hardware.

“On a geo mean basis for this wide span of hundreds of benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 9900X3D is slightly faster than the 9900X and still around 7% faster overall than the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K Arrow Lake desktop processor. Compared to the Ryzen 9 7900X3D, is 1.25x the performance as a nice generational improvement.”