Intel Xeon Silver 4210R vs AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX

Compare Intel 2nd Generation Xeon Scalable 10 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9 Mobile 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

6883 points
7025 points
2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5843 points
8549 points
46% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7219 points
10% slightly better multitasking score
6518 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7294 points
14% slightly better heavy workload score
6374 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

163.91 points
184.59 points
12% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6126 points
9459 points
54% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1087 points
1979 points
82% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

10
25% slightly more cores
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

20
25% slightly more threads
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz
3.30 GHz
37% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.2 GHz
4.9 GHz
53% significantly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

100 W
45 W
122% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

6
49% significantly more memory channels
4

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

199th of 1,089
192nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

2nd Generation Xeon Scalable
Ryzen 9 Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 February
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
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Xeon Silver 4210R vs Ryzen 9 6900HX specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 6900HX performs better than the Xeon Silver 4210R. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon Silver 4210R in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon Silver 4210R has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 6900HX has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 6900HX. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 6900HX has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon Silver 4210R. Also, the Ryzen 9 6900HX has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 6900HX outputs less heat than Xeon Silver 4210R thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 Xeon Silver 4210R has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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