AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS vs AMD Ryzen 5 6600H

Ryzen 9 5900HS vs Ryzen 5 6600H benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 5900HS beats the Ryzen 5 6600H in overall performance. 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 Ryzen 9 5900HS 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 Ryzen 9 5900HS. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5900HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 9 5900HS CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 5 6600H CPU because of its slightly 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 5900HS has slightly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 6600H. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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 9 5900HS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.