AMD’s new high-performance notebook processor, the Ryzen 9 6900HX was found in Geekbench’s database this week, showing what the new Zen 3+ cores are capable of. With clocks approaching 5 GHz, the solution seems to deliver a significant advance of more than 30% over its predecessor, the Ryzen 9 5900HX, despite still being far from the capabilities of competitors in the Intel Alder Lake-H family.
Ryzen 9 6900HX is 30% better than 5900HX in test
The Ryzen 6000 family focuses on notebooks and was announced during CES 2022, with the Ryzen 9 6900HX as one of the most powerful models. The chip comes equipped with 8 cores and 16 threads based on the Zen 3+ microarchitecture, a revision of the Zen 3 with improvements in the structures and fabrication in 6 nm, reaching clocks of up to 4.9 GHz.
There is still 16 MB of cache and, as an “X” ending model, the component has a base TDP of 45 W that can be extended by manufacturers. Its biggest highlight is the integrated GPU, the Radeon 680M, which features 12 Compute Units (CUs), or 768 cores, with respectable clocks of up to 2,400 MHz and RDNA 2 microarchitecture, thus offering Ray Tracing support and the promise of up to 2 times more performance than the previous generation Vega 8.
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The new Ryzen 9 was found in a still unknown model of Lenovo notebook, along with 32 GB of RAM, managing to reach 1,593 points in single-core and 10,151 points in multi-core, results that impress when compared to the Ryzen 9 5900HX — the brand’s old high-end chip has 1,417 points in single-core, and 7,658 points in multi-core, which represents an evolution of 12% and 33%, respectively, for the newest solution.
The gains draw more attention if we consider that there are no drastic changes in architecture, and should make the new Ryzen 6000 excellent options for games. However, there is one big hurdle for AMD’s new family of mobile CPUs: Intel’s Alder Lake-H rivals.
CPU still suffers against Intel Alder Lake-H
Despite the respectable evolution, AMD’s high-end processor is still far from catching up with Intel’s 12th generation direct competitor, the Core i9 12900H. The first tests with the Alder Lake-H family were released this Tuesday (25th) and show that the bet on a hybrid design has yielded good results for the Santa Clara giant.
With 14 cores and 20 threads, with 6 high-performance P-Cores at up to 5 GHz and 8 E-Cores at up to 3.8 GHz, Intel’s solution has scores of up to 1,769 points in single-core and 14,374 points in multi-core. -core, thus offering an advantage of 11% and no less than 44%, respectively, compared to the Ryzen 9 6900HX.
Even if it is significantly outperformed by the Core i9 12900H, the Ryzen 9 6900HX still has three cards up its sleeve: the lack of broad gaming support for Intel’s hybrid architecture, which could attract gamers to the AMD platform; the significantly higher efficiency, a hallmark of the red team in laptops since the Ryzen 4000; and the iGPU Radeon 680M, which should leave the Iris Xe of the Alder Lake line behind by a good margin.
Like competitors on the blue team, the first laptops equipped with Ryzen 6000 processors should debut in early February. The first reviews, which should explore in more detail the capabilities and differences between AMD and Intel chips, should be published in the next few days.
