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. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 6600H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

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. 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.