Intel Core i9-11950H vs AMD Ryzen 5 6600H

Compare Intel 11th Generation Core i9 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 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

6449 points
21% slightly better overall score
5291 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8487 points
19% slightly better gaming score
7096 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5818 points
23% slightly better multitasking score
4729 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5677 points
23% slightly better heavy workload score
4589 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

153.40 points
18% slightly higher Blender score
129.09 points
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

13113 points
22% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score
10717 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
33% slightly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
33% slightly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz
3.30 GHz
26% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz
11% slightly higher turbo speed
4.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W
Identical
45 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

768 KiB
100% significantly more L1 cache
384 KiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

24 MiB
49% significantly more L3 cache
16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

223rd of 1,089
311th of 1,089

Family

The product line

11th Generation Core i9
Ryzen 5 Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 May
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

-
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
-

Core i9-11950H vs Ryzen 5 6600H benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-11950H performs better than the Ryzen 5 6600H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 6600H in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-11950H has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 6600H has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 6600H. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 6600H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-11950H.

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 i9-11950H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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