AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX vs AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme

Ryzen 9 6900HX vs Ryzen Z1 Extreme benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen Z1 Extreme 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.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. In terms of clock speed, the Ryzen 9 6900HX and Ryzen Z1 Extreme are identical in this regard. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen Z1 Extreme has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 6900HX. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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.