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Best CPUs for video editing and 3D 2026

Rendering, video export and scene baking push every core to the limit, so more cores and threads at a decent clock win here. Workstation chips with dozens of cores pull ahead the most.

# CPU Type Task score cores/threads Score
1 Ryzen 9 9950X Desktop
100.0
 16 / 32 100.00
2 Ryzen 9 9950X3D Desktop
100.0
 16 / 32 100.00
3 Core Ultra 9 285K Desktop
90.1
 24 / 24 90.61
4 Ryzen 9 7950X Desktop
90.0
 16 / 32 89.63
5 Ryzen 9 7950X3D Desktop
87.4
 16 / 32 87.61
6 Core i9-14900K Desktop
80.6
 24 / 32 82.96
7 Core i9-13900K Desktop
77.1
 24 / 32 79.58
8 Core Ultra 7 265K Desktop
76.3
 20 / 20 79.26
9 Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme X2E-96-100 Laptop
75.1
 18 / 18 80.33
10 Ryzen 9 9900X Desktop
75.0
 12 / 24 80.49
11 Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme X2E-94-100 Laptop
72.7
 18 / 18 77.13
12 Core i7-14700K Desktop
68.8
 20 / 28 72.52
13 Ryzen 9 7900X Desktop
68.2
 12 / 24 72.58
14 Core Ultra 9 285HX Laptop
67.5
 24 / 24 72.57
15 Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus Laptop
67.5
 24 / 24 72.57
16 Ryzen 9 5950X Desktop
64.8
 16 / 32 65.39
17 Ryzen AI Max+ 395 Laptop
64.8
 16 / 32 70.63
18 Snapdragon X2 Elite X2E-90-100 Laptop
63.9
 18 / 18 71.79
19 Ryzen 9 9955HX Laptop
63.2
 16 / 32 70.65
20 Ryzen 9 9955HX3D Laptop
63.2
 16 / 32 70.65
21 Core i9-13980HX Laptop
62.8
 24 / 32 67.93
22 Core Ultra 9 275HX Laptop
62.1
 24 / 24 68.09
23 Snapdragon X2 Elite X2E-88-100 Laptop
60.1
 18 / 18 67.49
24 Core i7-13700K Desktop
57.5
 16 / 24 63.13
25 Core i9-14900HX Laptop
56.1
 24 / 32 63.51

Compare the top two: Ryzen 9 9950X vs Ryzen 9 9950X3D →

How we rank

Formula: multi-core speed. In Premiere or DaVinci the graphics card matters a lot too — it speeds up effects and encoding.

The score is our own estimate from the specs (cores, threads, clocks, architecture generation), not a benchmark run. 100 = the fastest CPU in our database.