AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX vs AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS

Ryzen 9 6900HX vs Ryzen 7 8845HS benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 8845HS beats the Ryzen 9 6900HX in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 6900HX has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 8845HS has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 9 6900HX. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 8845HS has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 6900HX. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 6900HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.