AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX vs AMD Ryzen 7 6800U

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Mobile 8 core CPU vs AMD 8 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

6264 points

1% slightly better overall score

6163 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7696 points

7894 points

2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5820 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

5606 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5710 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

5474 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6544 points

26% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

5170 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

175.52 points

18% slightly higher Blender score

148.55 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

14363 points

22% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

11741 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7263 points

7536 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1794 points

0.11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1792 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7587 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

7407 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1845 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1713 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

22% slightly higher clock speed

2.70 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz

4.7 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W

15 W

200% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB

Identical

512 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

Identical

4 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

Identical

16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

239th of 1,089

242nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Ryzen 9 5900HX vs Ryzen 7 6800U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 5900HX beats the Ryzen 7 6800U in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 6800U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 5900HX has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 6800U. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 6800U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 6800U outputs less heat than Ryzen 9 5900HX thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache and 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 Ryzen 9 5900HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.