AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS vs Intel Core i5-13500H

Compare AMD 8 core CPU vs Intel 13th Generation Core i5 12 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

6371 points

6478 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7734 points

8783 points

13% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5949 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

5800 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5841 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

5655 points

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3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6852 points

6% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

6443 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

177.47 points

6% slightly higher Blender score

166.36 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

14403 points

16335 points

13% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.30 GHz

26% slightly higher clock speed

2.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

4.7 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

9 MiB

125% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

18 MiB

12% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

240th of 1,118

233rd of 1,118

Family

The product line

13th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-5200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 9 6900HS vs Core i5-13500H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-13500H beats the Ryzen 9 6900HS in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 6900HS in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-13500H has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 6900HS has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 6900HS has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-13500H. Also, the Ryzen 9 6900HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i5-13500H has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 6900HS. The Core i5-13500H also has slightly more 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 6900HS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.