Intel Core i5-11600K vs AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX

Core i5-11600K vs Ryzen 9 6900HX comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 6900HX performs better than the Core i5-11600K. Despite this, the Core i5-11600K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 6900HX has slightly more cores than the Core i5-11600K. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 6900HX has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-11600K. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11600K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-11600K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 9 6900HX. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. The Ryzen 9 6900HX outputs less heat than Core i5-11600K 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 significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-11600K. The Ryzen 9 6900HX also has slightly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i5-11600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.