Intel Core i7-920 vs AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS

Core i7-920 vs Ryzen 9 6900HS benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 6900HS beats the Core i7-920 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-920 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 6900HS has significantly more cores than the Core i7-920. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 6900HS has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-920. It also has more threads than the Core i7-920. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 6900HS has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-920. Also, the Ryzen 9 6900HS has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 6900HS outputs less heat than Core i7-920 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 Core i7-920 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 6900HS

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 i7-920 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.