AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX vs Intel Core i7-12800HX

Ryzen 9 6900HX vs Core i7-12800HX benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 6900HX performs better than the Core i7-12800HX. Despite this, the Core i7-12800HX has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-12800HX has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Ryzen 9 6900HX that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 6900HX. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 6900HX has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12800HX. Also, the Ryzen 9 6900HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 9 6900HX CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-12800HX CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Core i7-12800HX 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 6900HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.