Intel Core i9-9900KF vs AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS

Core i9-9900KF vs Ryzen 9 6900HS specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 6900HS beats the Core i9-9900KF in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i9-9900KF has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-9900KF has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 6900HS. Also, the Core i9-9900KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 6900HS outputs less heat than Core i9-9900KF thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 6900HS has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i9-9900KF. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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 i9-9900KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.