AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS vs Intel Core i9-12900HK

Compare AMD 8 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i9 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

Identical

6371 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7734 points

8680 points

12% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5949 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

5739 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5841 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

5626 points

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3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6852 points

7480 points

9% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

177.47 points

178.23 points

0.43% slightly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

14403 points

19282 points

33% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

75% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

25% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.30 GHz

32% slightly higher clock speed

2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz

5 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

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

7.5 MiB

87% significantly more L2 cache

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

230th of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 9 6900HS vs Core i9-12900HK comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-12900HK performs better than the Ryzen 9 6900HS. 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 i9-12900HK has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 6900HS 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 i9-12900HK. Despite this, the Core i9-12900HK has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 9 6900HS CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-12900HK CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core i9-12900HK has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 6900HS. The Core i9-12900HK also has significantly more 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 6900HS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.