AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX vs Intel Core i9-12900HX

Ryzen 9 6900HX vs Core i9-12900HX specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-12900HX beats the Ryzen 9 6900HX in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 6900HX in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-12900HX has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 6900HX has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 6900HX. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 6900HX has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i9-12900HX. Despite this, the Core i9-12900HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 9 6900HX CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-12900HX 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 i9-12900HX 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.