Enthusiasts got their hands on an engineering sample of the Tuxedo Stellaris 16 laptop with an AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D processor and tested it in several games and benchmarks. The results showed whether it’s worth paying extra for a special version of the chip.
In its marketing materials, AMD positions the 16-core Ryzen 9 9955HX3D as “the best mobile processor for creativity and gaming.” It differs from the base version only in the presence of 64 MB of cache memory. In the overall performance rating in benchmarks, the processor scored 81.2 points against 79 points for the Ryzen 9 9955HX and 82.8 for the Core Ultra 9 275HX. Separately, in PCMark 10, the chip’s result was 9639 points against 9402 and 9032, respectively.
In gaming tests, Ryzen 9 9955HX3D also became the leader:
- Based on the combined scores in nine modern games at 1080p, the result was 99.3 points versus 95.1 for the Ryzen 9 9955HX and 94.4 for the Core Ultra 9 275HX.
- In qHD the situation has not changed: 99.5 points versus 97.7 and 94.8 respectively.
- In 4K – 98 points versus 97.8 and 94.6 respectively.
On average, the Ryzen 9 9955HX3D outperforms the Core Ultra 9 275HX by 5% (though not in every game). At the same time, the base version of the “red” chip demonstrates almost the same results, especially at 1440p and above. According to reviewers, overpaying about $245 for a version of a laptop with a “3D processor” still doesn’t make much sense.