• New benchmarks present the Ryzen 9 9950X3D runs higher on Home windows 10
• The chip’s efficiency is stronger in lots of at the moment’s demanding video games
• Home windows 11 appears to wrestle significantly when VBS is enabled

In keeping with benchmarks circulating on-line, AMD’s self-described “world’s greatest processor for players and creators,” the Ryzen 9 9950X3D, seems to run sooner on Home windows 10 than Home windows 11.

Noticed by Neowin, testing was carried out by YouTube benchmarker Tech YES Metropolis, which discovered that the 9950X3D carried out higher on Home windows 10 than on Home windows 11 for gaming, particularly when the working system’s virtualization-based safety (VBS) was enabled.

That is most evident with CPU-bound titles that includes the bottom doable graphical settings, resembling CS2 in 1080p. Valve’s newest shooter averages 745fps on Home windows 10 however simply 729fps on Home windows 11; it drops to 710fps with VBS enabled. Whereas we’re solely speaking a couple of 2.1% efficiency distinction right here, it is curious that it is taking place in any respect, as parity would a minimum of be anticipated between the 2 working methods.

It is a related story with Fortnite at its lowest settings in 1080p. The Ryzen 9 9950X3D achieves 591fps on Home windows 10 however simply 541fps on Home windows 11 and loses an additional 41 frames with VBS enabled for a lack of 9.2%. It could not seem to be too massive a deal, however these are aggressive video games the place each body issues, and if there is a slight lead in utilizing Home windows 10 over Home windows 11, this may very well be problematic on the high degree.

Tech YES Metropolis’s testing additionally alleges that Marvel Rivals, Baldur’s Gate 3, and Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 have related efficiency variations when working on Home windows 10 in comparison with Home windows 11, urging folks to disable VBS for greatest efficiency. Contemplating the processor’s MSRP, you are going to need to get each penny’s value of energy out of this chip, which does not appear to play as properly with the most recent working system in comparison with the earlier model.

Strangest of all is the truth that issues didn’t enhance with a custom-tuned model of Home windows 11 24H2, which nonetheless fell behind what a primary contemporary set up of Home windows 10 may do. It is regarding, given the truth that Home windows 10 might be discontinued on October 14, 2025, as safety updates will stop, and Home windows 11 would be the solely choice. It could solely be a claimed minor lead, but it surely’s disappointing information, contemplating the daring claims across the CPU.

A discrepency for considered one of AMD’s greatest processors ever

The Ryzen 9950X3D was launched yesterday, March 12, 2025, with a retail value of $699 / £699 / AU$1,349 as an enthusiast-class processor, because the second-generation AM5 chipset to make the most of AMD’s 3D V-cache. We praised it with a 4.5-star evaluate, citing it was “one of the best there may be” out of the present line of V-cache-enabled CPUs.

In our efficiency testing, we discovered that the Ryzen 9950X3D delivers nearly best-in-class gaming efficiency, excelling far past the usual 9950X by fairly a margin, however dropping out (in averages) when in comparison with the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, which we stated “could be higher worth for players”. This may very well be a results of solely eight of 16 cores accessing the 3D V-cache (break up between two swimming pools of 96MB and 32MB for 128MB complete) in opposition to the 96MB of the 9800X3D.