AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H vs Intel Core Ultra 9 285H

Compare AMD Ryzen PRO 6000 Series 8 core CPU vs Intel Core Ultra (Series 2) 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

7135 points
7431 points
4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9019 points
9839 points
9% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6520 points
6707 points
2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6356 points
6519 points
2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

172.91 points
234.24 points
35% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9559 points
14785 points
54% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1990 points
2607 points
31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
16
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
Identical
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.30 GHz
13% slightly higher clock speed
2.9 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz
5.4 GHz
10% slightly higher turbo speed

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
28 MiB
599% 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

190th of 1,099
173rd of 1,099

Family

The product line

Ryzen PRO 6000 Series
Core Ultra (Series 2)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 April
2025 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5
DDR5-8400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H vs Core Ultra 9 285H specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H performs better than the Core Ultra 9 285H. Despite this, the Core Ultra 9 285H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core Ultra 9 285H has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 9 285H. Despite this, the Core Ultra 9 285H has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core Ultra 9 285H has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H. The Core Ultra 9 285H 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 PRO 6950H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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