AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS vs AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme

Compare AMD 8 core CPU vs AMD 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

0.68% slightly better overall score

6328 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7734 points

7752 points

0.23% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5949 points

0.92% slightly better multitasking score

5895 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5841 points

0.90% slightly better heavy workload score

5789 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6852 points

4% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

6531 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

177.47 points

4% slightly higher Blender score

169.56 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

14403 points

14960 points

3% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8733 points

9595 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1846 points

2167 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.30 GHz

Identical

3.30 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz

5.1 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W

28 W

25% slightly lower TDP

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

8 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

Identical

16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

229th of 1,089

234th of 1,089

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Ryzen Z1

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Ryzen 9 6900HS vs Ryzen Z1 Extreme specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen Z1 Extreme is faster than the Ryzen 9 6900HS. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 6900HS in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. In terms of clock speed, the Ryzen 9 6900HS and Ryzen Z1 Extreme are identical in this regard. In terms of cache, the Ryzen Z1 Extreme has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 6900HS. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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.