AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS vs Ryzen 9 5900HS
We compared two 8-core laptop CPUs: the 3.3 GHz AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS against the 3.0 GHz Ryzen 9 5900HS. On this page, you'll find out which processor has better performance in benchmarks, games and other useful information.
Review
Single-Core Performance
Performance in single-threaded apps and benchmarks
Multi-Core Performance
Measure performance when all cores are involved
Power Efficiency
The efficiency score of power consumption
NanoReview Final Score
Generic CPU rating
Key Differences
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS
- Newer - released 1-year later
- Newer PCI Express version – 4.0
- More modern manufacturing process – 6 versus 7 nanometers
- 7% higher Turbo Boost frequency (4.9 GHz vs 4.6 GHz)
- 9% faster in a single-core Geekbench v6 test - 2033 vs 1873 points
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS
- More than 10° C higher critical temperature
Promotion
Test in Benchmarks
Comparing the performance of CPUs across various tasksCinebench R23
Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
| File compression | 908.6 MB/sec | 558.2 MB/sec |
| Clang compilation | 71.5 Klines/sec | 72.7 Klines/sec |
| HTML 5 Browser | 192.6 pages/sec | 126 pages/sec |
| PDF Renderer | 290.7 Mpixels/sec | 211.6 Mpixels/sec |
| Text processing | 207.4 pages/sec | 199.1 pages/sec |
| Background blur | 46.8 images/sec | 15.8 images/sec |
| Photo processing | 76.7 images/sec | 47.9 images/sec |
| Ray tracing | 18.1 Mpixels/sec | 19 Mpixels/sec |
PassMark
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
| Integer math | 90.6 GOps/sec | 89.2 GOps/sec |
| Floating point math | 50.1 GOps/sec | 48.1 GOps/sec |
| Find prime numbers | 58M Primes/sec | 48M Primes/sec |
| Random string sorting | 32.2M Strings/sec | 30.2M Strings/sec |
| Data encryption | 19 GBytes/sec | 18.3 GBytes/sec |
| Data compression | 305.6 MBytes/sec | 288.9 MBytes/sec |
| Physics | 1051 Frames/sec | 764 Frames/sec |
| Extended instructions | 20.7B Matrices/sec | 19.4B Matrices/sec |
Specifications
Full technical specification of AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS and Ryzen 9 5900HSGeneral
| Vendor | AMD | AMD |
| Released | January 4, 2022 | January 12, 2021 |
| Type | Laptop | Laptop |
| instruction set | x86-64 | x86-64 |
| Codename | Zen 3+ (Rembrandt) | Zen 3 (Cezanne) |
| Integrated GPU | Radeon 680M | Radeon RX Vega 8 |
CPU
| P-Cores | 8 | 8 |
| P-Threads | 16 | 16 |
| Base Frequency (P) | 3.3 GHz | 3.0 GHz |
| Turbo Boost Frequency (P) | 4.9 GHz | 4.6 GHz |
| Total Cores | 8 | 8 |
| Total Threads | 16 | 16 |
| Bus Frequency | 100 MHz | 100 MHz |
| Multiplier | 33x | 30x |
| L1 Cache | 64K (per core) | 64K (per core) |
| L2 Cache | 512K (per core) | 512K (per core) |
| L3 Cache | 16MB (shared) | 16MB (shared) |
| Unlocked Multiplier | No | No |
Package
| Fabrication process | 6 nm | 7 nm |
| TDP (PL1) | 35 W | 35 W |
| Socket | FP7 | FP6 |
| Peak temperature | 95°C | 105°C |
iGPU
| Integrated Graphics | AMD Radeon 680M | Radeon RX Vega 8 |
| GPU Base Clock | 2000 MHz | - |
| GPU Boost Clock | 2400 MHz | 2100 MHz |
| Shading Units | 768 | 512 |
| TMUs | 48 | 32 |
| ROPs | 32 | 8 |
| Execution Units | 12 | - |
| TGP | 15 W | 15 W |
iGPU FLOPS
Memory Support
| Memory types | - DDR5-4800 - LPDDR5-6400 |
- DDR4-3200 - LPDDR4-4266 |
| Memory Size | 64 GB | 64 GB |
| Max. Memory Channels | 2 | 2 |
| Max. Memory Bandwidth | 76.8 GB/s | - |
| ECC Support | No | No |
Misc
| Official site | AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS official page | AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS official page |
| PCI Express Version | 4.0 | 3.0 |
| PCI Express Lanes | 20 | 12 |
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