AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX vs Intel Core i3-1215U

Ryzen 9 6900HX vs Core i3-1215U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 6900HX is faster than the Core i3-1215U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-1215U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 6900HX has slightly more cores than the Core i3-1215U. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 6900HX has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i3-1215U. It also has more threads than the Core i3-1215U. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 6900HX has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i3-1215U. Also, the Ryzen 9 6900HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i3-1215U outputs less heat than Ryzen 9 6900HX thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core i3-1215U has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 6900HX. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 6900HX has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i3-1215U.

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 6900HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.