AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS vs Intel Xeon E5-2697A v4

Ryzen 9 6900HS vs Xeon E5-2697A v4 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 beats the Ryzen 9 6900HS in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 6900HS has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2697A v4 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. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 6900HS has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2697A v4. Also, the Ryzen 9 6900HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 9 6900HS CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2697A v4 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Xeon E5-2697A v4 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.