AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS vs Intel Core Ultra 5 236V

Compare AMD 8 core CPU vs Intel Core Ultra (Series 2) 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

6371 points

11% slightly better overall score

5724 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7734 points

8889 points

14% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5949 points

24% slightly better multitasking score

4771 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5841 points

27% slightly better heavy workload score

4571 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

177.47 points

52% significantly higher Blender score

116.22 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.30 GHz

57% significantly higher clock speed

2.1 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

14 MiB

250% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

229th of 1,089

274th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core Ultra (Series 2)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2024 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-8533

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Ryzen 9 6900HS vs Core Ultra 5 236V specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 6900HS is faster than the Core Ultra 5 236V. Despite this, the Core Ultra 5 236V has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Ryzen 9 6900HS has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 6900HS has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core Ultra 5 236V. Also, the Ryzen 9 6900HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core Ultra 5 236V has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 6900HS. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 6900HS has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core Ultra 5 236V.

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.