AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D Sets New PCMark 10 Express World Record on ASRock X870E Taichi OCF
A new PCMark 10 Express world record has been set, and this time AMD has pushed past a leaderboard that had largely been dominated by Intel. Overclocker Alex2305 on HWBOT posted a score of 14,290 marks on March 9, 2026 using the Ryzen 9 9950X3D at 6.37 GHz on the ASRock X870E Taichi OCF, a result that HWBOT currently lists as the number 1 global ranking for the benchmark.
🏆 World Record Achieved!
— ASRock (@ASRockInfo) March 10, 2026
The ASRock X870E Taichi OCF,
paired with AMD Ryzen™ 9 9950X3D, has set a new PCMark10 Express World Record.
Professional overclocker Alex2305 pushed the system to the limit, achieving an incredible 14290 marks and securing 1st place on HWBOT.
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The record matters because it edges out the previous top score of 14,280 marks, which HWBOT shows was achieved by Doomed83 with an Intel Core i9 14900K. That means the new result is not just a category win for the 9950X3D, but the outright global lead in PCMark 10 Express, a benchmark that has often leaned toward heavily tuned Intel systems at the very top.
The hardware details behind the submission make the result even more interesting for overclocking followers. HWBOT lists the run with the Ryzen 9 9950X3D under liquid nitrogen cooling at minus 100 degrees Celsius, paired with DDR5 memory running at 6,600 MHz and the ASRock X870E Taichi OCF motherboard. The board itself has now been directly highlighted by ASRock in its own follow up announcement around the achievement, reinforcing its growing reputation as one of the most serious AM5 overclocking platforms on the market.
ASRock has also publicly tied the result to the X870E Taichi OCF’s tuning focus, describing the board as built for extreme overclocking and emphasizing its stability and flexibility for enthusiasts. That lines up with how the motherboard has increasingly been positioned in the enthusiast market, especially for users chasing leaderboard class CPU and memory records rather than just high end daily performance.
For AMD, this is a strong symbolic win. The Ryzen 9 9950X3D has already been viewed as a flagship gaming and enthusiast chip, but taking the top global PCMark 10 Express score gives it a fresh credibility boost in competitive benchmarking as well. Even if the margin over the previous record is only 10 marks, world records at this level are often separated by exactly that kind of razor thin gap.
From a broader hardware perspective, this result is another reminder that AM5 overclocking is still evolving in interesting ways. Intel chips may still occupy a large share of the historic top entries in this benchmark, but AMD now owns the current crown, and ASRock’s X870E Taichi OCF is once again sitting at the center of that conversation.
Do you think AMD will hold this PCMark 10 Express lead for a while, or is this the kind of record Intel overclockers will try to reclaim quickly?
