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

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

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-12900K 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.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-12900K has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 9 6900HS. Indeed, the Core i9-12900K has 16 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 i9-12900K. Despite this, the Core i9-12900K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 6900HS outputs less heat than Core i9-12900K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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