AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX vs AMD Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Mobile 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen Z2 8 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
3% slightly better overall score
6783 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8549 points
9571 points
11% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6518 points
8% slightly better multitasking score
5991 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6374 points
9% slightly better heavy workload score
5838 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

184.59 points
9% slightly higher Blender score
168.33 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
Identical
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
Identical
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.30 GHz
65% significantly higher clock speed
2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz
5 GHz
2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W
28 W
60% significantly lower TDP

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
8 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
Identical
16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

192nd of 1,089
205th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Mobile
Ryzen Z2

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
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Ryzen 9 6900HX vs Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 6900HX is faster than the Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme. Despite this, the Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 6900HX has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme. Despite this, the Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme 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. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 6900HX. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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.

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