AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS vs Intel Core Ultra 7 165H

Compare AMD 8 core CPU vs Intel 16 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

6976 points

9% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7734 points

9640 points

24% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5949 points

6199 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5841 points

6011 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

177.47 points

193.42 points

8% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

37% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.30 GHz

135% significantly higher clock speed

1.4 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

18 MiB

350% 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

196th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core Ultra (Series 1)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-7467

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 9 6900HS vs Core Ultra 7 165H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 6900HS beats the Core Ultra 7 165H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core Ultra 7 165H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core Ultra 7 165H has significantly more cores with 16 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 significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 7 165H. The info from our database shows that the Core Ultra 7 165H has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 6900HS. The Core Ultra 7 165H 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.