AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX vs Intel Xeon E5-2697A v4

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Mobile 8 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 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

8324 points

18% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8549 points

38% slightly better gaming score

6186 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6518 points

9116 points

39% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6374 points

9598 points

50% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

184.59 points

224.42 points

21% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9459 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

8264 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1979 points

86% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1062 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.30 GHz

26% slightly higher clock speed

2.60 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz

36% slightly higher turbo speed

3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W

222% significantly lower TDP

145 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

Identical

4 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

40 MiB

150% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

192nd of 1,089

134th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Mobile

Xeon E5 v4 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5

DDR4-1600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 9 6900HX vs Xeon E5-2697A v4 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 6900HX is faster than the Xeon E5-2697A v4. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2697A v4 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2697A v4 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. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 6900HX has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2697A v4. Also, the Ryzen 9 6900HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 9 6900HX CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2697A v4 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Xeon E5-2697A v4 also has significantly more 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.