AMD Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition vs AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX

Compare AMD 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 16 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

3249 points
11380 points
250% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4467 points
10581 points
136% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2880 points
11723 points
307% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2792 points
11982 points
329% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

104.16 points
538.07 points
416% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
16
166% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
32
166% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.30 GHz
32% slightly higher clock speed
2.5 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
16 MiB
433% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
64 MiB
300% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

505th of 1,089
61st of 1,089

Family

The product line

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Ryzen 9000 Series

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

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Yes

Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition vs Ryzen 9 9955HX comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 9955HX performs better than the Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 9955HX has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 9955HX has 16 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 9955HX. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 9955HX has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition. The Ryzen 9 9955HX also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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