Onboard Video Performance
With the Ryzen 9 9950X3D being their highest-end CPU and with its gaming and work mix. I just don’t see anything planning on running the CPU without a dedicated GPU. If you just needed the CPU power and wanted onboard you would run the normal 9950X. That said there are times when you need to run your PC without a video card. Maybe it has died or hasn’t come in at all. With any CPU I always put the onboard GPU to the test as well and that is no different even when it’s the Ryzen 9 9950X3D. To start off testing I went with the old reliable 3DMark which has a few tests I wanted to check out. The first test was Fire Strike and the Ryzen 9 9950X3D came in at 2451 in this test. That was a little better than the 9800X3D but it was just a hair behind the Ryzen 9 7950X3D. Intel’s last 5 generations are all sitting higher as well as the Ryzen 2000 and 8000 G CPU which have an onboard GPU focus. Time Spy was similar with the Ryzen 9 9950X3D sitting in the mid with the 9800X3D and all of the 7000 and 9000 Series Ryzen CPUs, with Intel once again ahead as well as the G Series CPUs. In Speed Way, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D scored 111, which put it between the 9600X and 9700X but at about a 1/3 of the performance of the G CPUs or Intel’s Core Ultra CPUs. I did also add in the new Steel Legion Light benchmark and the Ryzen 9 9950X3D scored 637 putting it ahead of the 14th Gen Intel CPUs but behind the other 9000 Series Ryzen CPUs. Last up I did also run the AMD FSR 2 feature test at 1080p and with the quality detail. I was curious what FSR would do for the iGPU and the Ryzen 9 9950X3D went from 3.36 FPS up to 6.4 which is a 90% improvement but not enough to make it playable in that situation.
For Unigine Superposition, I ran both the 720 Low and 1080 Medium presets. The Ryzen 9 9950X3D came in just ahead of the 9800X3D but behind the 7950X3D here. It is still down below the last few generations of Intel CPUs and the Ryzen G Series CPUs putting it in the middle of this chart.
With AI being an important metric these days I did slip in a look at the AI performance for the integrated GPU as well using Procyon’s AI Computer Vision Benchmark which tests using a few different neural network models including Yolo v3 which is one of the models we use with our own AI security camera filtering. The Ryzen 9 9950X3D scored a 58 which tied it with the Ryzen 7 9800X3D and put it ahead of the 14th gen Intel CPUs but was also less than half of the new Core Ultra CPUs performance even without using the Intel OpenVINO setting that game those even more performance.
Then from there on, I jumped into game tests. Some of our tests are older games but I did also add in a few newer games as well to get an idea of newer games when tested at 1080p and low or medium settings. My goal with these tests was to see if base-level gaming at low or medium settings was possible at all. The Ryzen 9 9950X3D consistently improved on the performance that we saw with the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. That said, that still kept it in the middle of the charts with the Intel Coore Ultra CPUs and the AMD Ryzen G CPUs making everything else look slow. In the end, you can get barely playable performance in some games like F1 22 at 1080p Medium detail or you do have room to drop the detail down farther. Ghost Recon Wildlands was similar but at 1080p and the old Tomb Raider was playable but not smooth as well. This isn’t something that I would try to game on, but if you need to wait for your GPU to come in or come back you won’t have any problems using your PC for anything else.
I also slipped in the F1 22 FSR tests, I was curious if that would be enough to push the game to be playable and it was. It went from 28 FPS up to 43 FPS. I wouldn’t call it smooth, but you could play at that frame rate. Or you could even try the lower detail or another step down in resolution if you just have to have 60 or higher FPS.
