AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS vs Intel Core i7-12800H

Compare AMD 8 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i7 14 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
9% slightly better overall score
5807 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7734 points
6% slightly better gaming score
7291 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5949 points
10% slightly better multitasking score
5382 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5841 points
9% slightly better heavy workload score
5311 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

177.47 points
2% slightly higher Blender score
172.49 points
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

14403 points
16597 points
15% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
14
75% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
20
25% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.30 GHz
37% slightly higher clock speed
2.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz
2% slightly higher turbo speed
4.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W
28% slightly lower TDP
45 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB
1120 KiB
118% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
Identical
4 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
24 MiB
49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

229th of 1,089
267th of 1,089

Family

The product line

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12th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

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No

Ryzen 9 6900HS vs Core i7-12800H specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 6900HS performs better than the Core i7-12800H. Despite this, the Core i7-12800H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-12800H has significantly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Ryzen 9 6900HS that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 6900HS. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 6900HS has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12800H. Also, the Ryzen 9 6900HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 9 6900HS CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-12800H CPU because of its slightly 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. The Core i7-12800H also has significantly 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.

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