Intel Core i7-11700K vs AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS

Compare Intel 11th Generation Core i7 8 core CPU vs AMD 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7984 points
25% slightly better overall score
6371 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9165 points
18% slightly better gaming score
7734 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7574 points
27% slightly better multitasking score
5949 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7434 points
27% slightly better heavy workload score
5841 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

8151 points
18% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
6852 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

208.15 points
17% slightly higher Blender score
177.47 points
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

14281 points
14403 points
0.85% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9777 points
14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
8534 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2159 points
16% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1861 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9888 points
13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
8733 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2246 points
21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1846 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
Identical
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
Identical
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
9% slightly higher clock speed
3.30 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz
2% slightly higher turbo speed
4.9 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W
35 W
257% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

640 KiB
25% slightly more L1 cache
512 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
Identical
4 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
Identical
16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

149th of 1,089
229th of 1,089

Family

The product line

11th Generation Core i7
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 February
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i7-11700K vs Ryzen 9 6900HS comparison

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

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-11700K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 9 6900HS. Also, the Core i7-11700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 6900HS outputs less heat than Core i7-11700K 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.

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 i7-11700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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