Intel Core i9-12900H vs AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS

Core i9-12900H vs Ryzen 9 6900HS specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-12900H is faster than the Ryzen 9 6900HS. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 6900HS in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-12900H has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 9 6900HS. Indeed, the Core i9-12900H has 14 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 9 6900HS. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 6900HS. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 6900HS has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-12900H. Despite this, the Core i9-12900H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 6900HS outputs less heat than Core i9-12900H thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i9-12900H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.