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AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS vs Ryzen 9 5900HS

51 out of 100
AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS
VS
46 out of 100
AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS
AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS
AMD 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.

  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Performance
  4. Specs
  5. Comments

Review

General overview and comparison of the processors
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
Integrated Graphics
iGPU capabilities for gaming and 3D-intensive tasks
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Key Differences

What are the key differences between 5900HS and 6900HS
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS
  • More powerful AMD Radeon 680M integrated graphics: 3.7 vs 2.2 TFLOPS
  • Newer PCI Express version – 4.0
  • Newer - released 1 year later
  • More modern manufacturing process – 6 versus 7 nanometers
  • 7% higher Turbo Boost frequency (4.9 GHz vs 4.6 GHz)
  • 11% faster in a single-core Geekbench v6 test - 2034 vs 1825 points
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS
  • More than 10° C higher critical temperature

Test in Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs across various tasks
CPU:
Ryzen 9 6900HS
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Ryzen 9 5900HS

Cinebench

Reputable cross-platform benchmark for high-performance processors
Cinebench 2024 (Single)
Cinebench 2024 (Multi)
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GeekBench v6

The new version of this benchmark emulates common operations often used in real-world apps
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
File compression 842.2 MB/sec 609.2 MB/sec
Clang compilation 75.3 Klines/sec 61.3 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 196.9 pages/sec 124.3 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 301.7 Mpixels/sec 230 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 214.9 pages/sec 204.8 pages/sec
Background blur 47.6 images/sec 26.1 images/sec
Photo processing 80.4 images/sec 53.2 images/sec
Ray tracing 18 Mpixels/sec 18.7 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1], [2] – 656 & 425 samples

PassMark

Synthetic test that focuses on raw computational performance for low-level functions
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
Ryzen 9 6900HS +9%
22812
Ryzen 9 5900HS
21008
Integer math 84.8 GOps/sec 83.7 GOps/sec
Floating point math 47.5 GOps/sec 46.1 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 57M Primes/sec 46M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 30M Strings/sec 28.7M Strings/sec
Data encryption 18 GBytes/sec 17.4 GBytes/sec
Data compression 288.3 MBytes/sec 276.3 MBytes/sec
Physics 1030 Frames/sec 762 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 19.7B Matrices/sec 18.7B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4] – 902 & 1536 samples

Blender

3D rendering test that measures CPU performance in 3D modeling tasks (uses all cores)
Blender CPU
Ryzen 9 6900HS +10%
180.6
Ryzen 9 5900HS
164.35

Performance Per Watt

Shows the score you get per each watt of PL1 TDP
Cinebench 2024 / Watt 21.7 PPW 19.7 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 276.6 PPW 210.9 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 651.8 PPW 600.2 PPW
Blender / Watt 5.16 PPW 4.7 PPW
These are rough calculations, as most CPUs surpass PL1 TDP wattage even in multicore workloads.

Specifications

Full technical specification of AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS and Ryzen 9 5900HS

General

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
Rival Equivalent - Intel Core i9 12900H - Intel Core i9 11980HK
Successor - - AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS
AMD Ryzen CPU ranking (110th and 133rd place)

CPU

Performance Cores
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
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 400 MHz 300 MHz
GPU Boost Clock 2400 MHz 2100 MHz
Shading Units 768 512
TMUs 48 32
ROPs 32 8
Execution Units 12 8
TGP 15 W 25 W
iGPU FLOPS
Ryzen 9 6900HS +68%
3.7 TFLOPS
Ryzen 9 5900HS
2.2 TFLOPS
More info: Radeon RX Vega 8 compared to Radeon 680M

Memory Support

Memory Types - DDR5-4800
- LPDDR5-6400		 - DDR4-3200
- LPDDR4-4266
Max. Memory Size 64 GB 64 GB
Memory Channels 2 2
Max. Memory Bandwidth 76.8 GB/s -
ECC Support No No

Misc

Official Site AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS official page -
PCI Express Version 4.0 3.0
PCI Express Lanes 20 12

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Comments

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