AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850HS vs Intel Core i7-6700HQ

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AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850HS CPU1 vs CPU2 Intel Core i7-6700HQ
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850HS Intel Core i7-6700HQ

CPU comparison

In this CPU comparison, we compare the AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850HS and the Intel Core i7-6700HQ and use benchmarks to check which processor is faster.

We compare the AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850HS 8 core processor released in Q2/2022 with the Intel Core i7-6700HQ which has 4 CPU cores and was introduced in Q3/2015.
AMD Ryzen 7 (68) Family Intel Core i7 (298)
AMD Ryzen 6000H/7035H (20) CPU group Intel Core i 6000H (15)
5 Generation 6
Rembrandt (Zen 3+) Architecture Skylake H
Mobile Segment Mobile
AMD Ryzen 7 5800HS Predecessor Intel Core i7-5700HQ
-- Successor Intel Core i7-7700HQ

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850HS is a 8 core processor with a clock frequency of 3.20 GHz (4.70 GHz). The processor can compute 16 threads at the same time. The Intel Core i7-6700HQ clocks with 2.60 GHz (3.50 GHz), has 4 CPU cores and can calculate 8 threads in parallel.

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850HS Characteristic Intel Core i7-6700HQ
8 Cores 4
16 Threads 8
normal Core architecture normal
Yes Hyperthreading Yes
No Overclocking ? No
3.20 GHz Frequency 2.60 GHz
4.70 GHz Turbo Frequency (1 Core) 3.50 GHz
3.60 GHz Turbo Frequency (All Cores) 3.20 GHz

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Processors with the support of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors. Algorithms for ML improve their performance the more data they have collected via software. ML tasks can be processed up to 10,000 times faster than with a classic processor.

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850HS Characteristic Intel Core i7-6700HQ
-- AI hardware --
-- AI specifications --

Internal Graphics

Graphics (iGPU) integrated into the processor not only enable image output without having to rely on a dedicated graphics solution, but can also efficiently accelerate video playback.

AMD Radeon 680M GPU Intel HD Graphics 530
2.00 GHz GPU frequency 0.35 GHz
2.40 GHz GPU (Turbo) 1.05 GHz
9 GPU Generation 9
6 nm Technology 14 nm
3 Max. displays 3
12 Compute units 24
768 Shader 192
Yes Hardware Raytracing No
No Frame Generation No
8 GB Max. GPU Memory 32 GB
12 DirectX Version 12

Hardware codec support

A photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos.

AMD Radeon 680M GPU Intel HD Graphics 530
Decode / Encode Codec h265 / HEVC (8 bit) Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode Codec h265 / HEVC (10 bit) Decode
Decode / Encode Codec h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode Codec VP9 Decode
Decode / Encode Codec VP8 Decode / Encode
Decode Codec AV1 No
Decode / Encode Codec AVC Decode / Encode
Decode Codec VC-1 Decode
Decode / Encode Codec JPEG Decode / Encode

Memory & PCIe

Up to 64 GB of memory in a maximum of 2 memory channels is supported by the AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850HS, while the Intel Core i7-6700HQ supports a maximum of 64 GB of memory with a maximum memory bandwidth of 34.1 GB/s enabled.

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850HS Characteristic Intel Core i7-6700HQ
LPDDR5-6400, DDR5-4800 Memory LPDDR3-1866, DDR4-2133
64 GB Max. Memory 64 GB
2 (Dual Channel) Memory channels 2 (Dual Channel)
76.8 GB/s Max. Bandwidth 34.1 GB/s
No ECC No
4.00 MB L2 Cache --
16.00 MB L3 Cache 6.00 MB
4.0 PCIe version 3.0
12 PCIe lanes 20
23.6 GB/s PCIe Bandwidth 19.7 GB/s

Thermal Management

The AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850HS has a TDP of 35 W. The TDP of the Intel Core i7-6700HQ is 45 W. System integrators use the TDP of the processor as a guide when dimensioning the cooling solution.

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850HS Characteristic Intel Core i7-6700HQ
35 W TDP (PL1 / PBP) 45 W
-- TDP (PL2) --
54 W TDP up --
-- TDP down --
105 °C Tjunction max. --

Technical details

The AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850HS has 20.00 MB cache and is manufactured in 6 nm. The cache of Intel Core i7-6700HQ is at 6.00 MB. The processor is manufactured in 14 nm.

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850HS Characteristic Intel Core i7-6700HQ
6 nm Technology 14 nm
Monolithic Chip design Monolithic
x86-64 (64 bit) Instruction set (ISA) x86-64 (64 bit)
SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3 ISA extensions SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
FP7 Socket BGA 1440
AMD-V, SVM Virtualization VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
Yes AES-NI Yes
Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux Operating systems Windows 10, Linux
Q2/2022 Release date Q3/2015
-- Release price --
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Average performance in benchmarks

⌀ Single core performance in 3 CPU benchmarks
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850HS (100%)
Intel Core i7-6700HQ (55%)
⌀ Multi core performance in 5 CPU benchmarks
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850HS (100%)
Intel Core i7-6700HQ (35%)

Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850HS AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850HS
8C 16T @ 4.70 GHz
1491 (100%)
Intel Core i7-6700HQ Intel Core i7-6700HQ
4C 8T @ 3.50 GHz
896 (60%)

Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850HS AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850HS
8C 16T @ 3.60 GHz
12545 (100%)
Intel Core i7-6700HQ Intel Core i7-6700HQ
4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz
4193 (33%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850HS AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850HS
8C 16T @ 4.70 GHz
1643 (100%)
Intel Core i7-6700HQ Intel Core i7-6700HQ
4C 8T @ 3.50 GHz
806 (49%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850HS AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850HS
8C 16T @ 3.60 GHz
8824 (100%)
Intel Core i7-6700HQ Intel Core i7-6700HQ
4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz
3079 (35%)

Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The single-core benchmark only evaluates the performance of the fastest CPU core, the number of CPU cores in a processor is irrelevant here.
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850HS AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850HS
8C 16T @ 4.70 GHz
1964 (100%)
Intel Core i7-6700HQ Intel Core i7-6700HQ
4C 8T @ 3.50 GHz
1128 (57%)

Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The multi-core benchmark evaluates the performance of all of the processor's CPU cores. Virtual thread improvements such as AMD SMT or Intel's Hyper-Threading have a positive impact on the benchmark result.
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850HS AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850HS
8C 16T @ 3.60 GHz
9432 (100%)
Intel Core i7-6700HQ Intel Core i7-6700HQ
4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz
3894 (41%)

Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850HS AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850HS
8C 16T @ 3.60 GHz
4735 (100%)
Intel Core i7-6700HQ Intel Core i7-6700HQ
4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz
1651 (35%)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850HS AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850HS
AMD Radeon 680M @ 2.40 GHz
3686 (100%)
Intel Core i7-6700HQ Intel Core i7-6700HQ
Intel HD Graphics 530 @ 1.05 GHz
403 (11%)

Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark

Some of the CPUs listed below have been benchmarked by CPU-monkey. However the majority of CPUs have not been tested and the results have been estimated by a CPU-monkey’s secret proprietary formula. As such they do not accurately reflect the actual Passmark CPU mark values and are not endorsed by PassMark Software Pty Ltd.
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850HS AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850HS
8C 16T @ 3.60 GHz
21910 (100%)
Intel Core i7-6700HQ Intel Core i7-6700HQ
4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz
6520 (30%)

Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850HS AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850HS
8C 16T @ 4.70 GHz
582 (100%)
Intel Core i7-6700HQ Intel Core i7-6700HQ
4C 8T @ 3.50 GHz
0 (0%)

Blender 3.1 Benchmark

In the Blender Benchmark 3.1, the scenes "monster", "junkshop" and "classroom" are rendered and the time required by the system is measured. In our benchmark we test the CPU and not the graphics card. Blender 3.1 was presented as a standalone version in March 2022.
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850HS AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850HS
8C 16T @ 3.60 GHz
189 (100%)
Intel Core i7-6700HQ Intel Core i7-6700HQ
4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz
0 (0%)

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)

Blender is a free 3D graphics software for rendering (creating) 3D bodies, which can also be textured and animated in the software. The Blender benchmark creates predefined scenes and measures the time (s) required for the entire scene. The shorter the time required, the better. We selected bmw27 as the benchmark scene.
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850HS AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850HS
8C 16T @ 3.60 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Core i7-6700HQ Intel Core i7-6700HQ
4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz
540.3 (100%)

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Single-Core)

The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850HS AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850HS
8C 16T @ 3.60 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Core i7-6700HQ Intel Core i7-6700HQ
4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz
325 (100%)

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Multi-Core)

The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850HS AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850HS
8C 16T @ 3.20 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Core i7-6700HQ Intel Core i7-6700HQ
4C 8T @ 2.60 GHz
1725 (100%)

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850HS AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850HS
8C 16T @ 4.70 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Core i7-6700HQ Intel Core i7-6700HQ
4C 8T @ 3.50 GHz
148 (100%)

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850HS AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850HS
8C 16T @ 3.60 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Core i7-6700HQ Intel Core i7-6700HQ
4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz
692 (100%)

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