Intel Core i5-11600 vs AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX

Core i5-11600 vs Ryzen 9 6900HX benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 6900HX beats the Core i5-11600 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-11600 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 6900HX has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-11600 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11600. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 6900HX has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-11600. Also, the Ryzen 9 6900HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 6900HX outputs less heat than Core i5-11600 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 6900HX has slightly more L2 cache than the Core i5-11600. The Ryzen 9 6900HX also has slightly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i5-11600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.