Intel Core i5-11600KF vs AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS

Core i5-11600KF vs Ryzen 9 6900HS specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 6900HS is faster than the Core i5-11600KF. Despite this, the Core i5-11600KF has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 6900HS has slightly more cores than the Core i5-11600KF. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 6900HS has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-11600KF. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11600KF. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-11600KF has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 6900HS. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 6900HS outputs less heat than Core i5-11600KF thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 9 6900HS has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-11600KF. The Ryzen 9 6900HS 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 i5-11600KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.