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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 Ryzen 9 9900X Desktop
75.0
 12 / 24 80.49
10 Core i7-14700K Desktop
68.8
 20 / 28 72.52
11 Ryzen 9 7900X Desktop
68.2
 12 / 24 72.58
12 Ryzen 9 5950X Desktop
64.8
 16 / 32 65.39
13 Core i7-13700K Desktop
57.5
 16 / 24 63.13
14 Core Ultra 5 245K Desktop
53.7
 14 / 14 60.91
15 Core i9-12900K Desktop
50.6
 16 / 24 56.63
16 Ryzen 9 5900X Desktop
49.8
 12 / 24 53.58
17 Ryzen 7 9800X3D Desktop
49.5
 8 / 16 59.36
18 Core i5-14600K Desktop
48.0
 14 / 20 55.56
19 Core i5-13600K Desktop
46.9
 14 / 20 54.01
20 Ryzen 7 9700X Desktop
46.5
 8 / 16 58.31
21 Core i7-12700 Desktop
45.9
 12 / 20 52.02
22 Core i7-12700K Desktop
43.9
 12 / 20 50.82
23 Ryzen 7 7700X Desktop
43.7
 8 / 16 53.14
24 Ryzen 7 7800X3D Desktop
40.6
 8 / 16 49.31
25 Ryzen 7 7700 Desktop
40.2
 8 / 16 50.07

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.