Intel Core i7-11700F vs AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX

Core i7-11700F vs Ryzen 9 6900HX benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-11700F beats the Ryzen 9 6900HX in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 6900HX in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 6900HX has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-11700F. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 6900HX outputs less heat than Core i7-11700F thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches and L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-11700F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.