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Test system: AM5 board (MSI MPG X870E Carbon Wi-Fi or Gigabyte Aorus X870E Elite X3D ICE, the review does not say which one ran the 9950X), 2x16 GB G.Skill Trident Z Neo RGB DDR5-6000 with EXPO, Corsair iCue Link H150i RGB, Windows 11 24H2, VBS off, Resizable BAR on, Precision Boost Overdrive off.","benchmark_cinebench_2024_multi":"Cinebench 2024 multi-core chart: 2,344 CB marks. Same test system.","benchmark_cinebench_2026_single":"Cinebench 2026 chart titled Single-Core: 569 points. Tom's does not say whether it is the Single Thread or Single Core test, and the 9950X has SMT. The same chart shows 567 for the 9950X3D, which Club386's Cinebench 2026 Single thread chart also reads, so the chart is the single-thread test. Same test system.","benchmark_cinebench_2026_multi":"Cinebench 2026 multi-core chart: 9,695 points. 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The chart does not name the measurement method."}},{"url":"https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-ryzen-9-9950x3d2-review/4","kind":"measurement","accessed":"2026-10-14","fields":["measured_cpu_sustained_power_w","measured_cpu_idle_power_w"],"notes":{"measured_cpu_sustained_power_w":"Cinebench 2024 multi-core render, EPS12V measured with HWiNFO and Benchlab, average 221 W. The chart title reads Higher is better, which is a label error for watts. Same test system as the game results.","measured_cpu_idle_power_w":"Idle Power Consumption chart, EPS12V measured with HWiNFO and Benchlab, average 25 W. Same test system."}},{"url":"https://www.club386.com/amd-ryzen-9-9950x-and-ryzen-9-9900x-review/","kind":"review_site","accessed":"2026-10-14","fields":["benchmark_geekbench_6_single","benchmark_geekbench_6_multi"],"notes":{"benchmark_geekbench_6_single":"Geekbench 6 single-core chart in the 9950X and 9900X launch review of 14 August 2024: 3,452 points for the 9950X. Test system: MSI MEG X670E Ace, 2x32 GB Kingston Fury Beast DDR5-6000 CL36, Zotac GeForce RTX 4090, Arctic Liquid Freezer III 420 AIO. Intel Binary Optimisation does not apply to AMD. Geekbench 6 minor version not stated. This is an older test round than the Cinebench results, and Club386 has no newer chart with the 9950X.","benchmark_geekbench_6_multi":"Geekbench 6 multi-core chart in the same review: 21,632 points. Same test system."}},{"url":"https://hwbusters.com/cpu/amd-ryzen-9-9950x-cpu-review-performance-thermals-power-analysis/11/","kind":"review_site","accessed":"2026-10-14","fields":["measured_cpu_stress_temp_c"],"notes":{"measured_cpu_stress_temp_c":"Max Operating Temperature (Blender) section: the CPU Temperature Load chart reads 82.75 C for the 9950X. The reviewer runs Blender instead of Prime95. Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 G2, which the review page 14 names and says was chosen over the AIO that AMD suggests. 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