AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX vs Intel Core Ultra 7 165H

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Mobile 8 core CPU vs Intel Core Ultra (Series 1) 16 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

7025 points
0.70% slightly better overall score
6976 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8549 points
9640 points
12% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6518 points
5% slightly better multitasking score
6199 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6374 points
6% slightly better heavy workload score
6011 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

184.59 points
193.42 points
4% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
16
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
22
37% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.30 GHz
135% significantly higher clock speed
1.4 GHz

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

4
100% significantly more memory channels
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
18 MiB
350% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
24 MiB
49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

192nd of 1,089
196th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Mobile
Core Ultra (Series 1)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
2023 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5
DDR5-7467

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 9 6900HX vs Core Ultra 7 165H comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 6900HX is faster than the Core Ultra 7 165H. Despite this, the Core Ultra 7 165H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core Ultra 7 165H has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 9 6900HX. Indeed, the Core Ultra 7 165H has 16 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 9 6900HX. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 6900HX. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 6900HX has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 7 165H. The info from our database shows that the Core Ultra 7 165H has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 6900HX. The Core Ultra 7 165H also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.

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