AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX vs Intel Pentium G4560

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AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX CPU1 vs CPU2 Intel Pentium G4560
AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX Intel Pentium G4560

CPU comparison

In this CPU comparison, we compare the AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX and the Intel Pentium G4560 and use benchmarks to check which processor is faster.

We compare the AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX 8 core processor released in Q1/2022 with the Intel Pentium G4560 which has 2 CPU cores and was introduced in Q1/2017.
AMD Ryzen 9 (35) Family Intel Pentium (150)
AMD Ryzen 6000H/7035H (20) CPU group Intel Pentium G4000 (5)
5 Generation 7
Rembrandt (Zen 3+) Architecture Kaby Lake S
Mobile Segment Desktop / Server
AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX Predecessor --
-- Successor --

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX is a 8 core processor with a clock frequency of 3.30 GHz (4.90 GHz). The processor can compute 16 threads at the same time. The Intel Pentium G4560 clocks with 3.50 GHz, has 2 CPU cores and can calculate 4 threads in parallel.

AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX Characteristic Intel Pentium G4560
8 Cores 2
16 Threads 4
normal Core architecture normal
Yes Hyperthreading Yes
No Overclocking ? No
3.30 GHz Frequency 3.50 GHz
4.90 GHz Turbo Frequency (1 Core) --
4.20 GHz Turbo Frequency (All Cores) --

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 9 6900HX Characteristic Intel Pentium G4560
-- 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 610
2.00 GHz GPU frequency 0.35 GHz
2.40 GHz GPU (Turbo) 1.05 GHz
9 GPU Generation 9.5
6 nm Technology 14 nm
3 Max. displays 3
12 Compute units 12
768 Shader 96
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 610
Decode / Encode Codec h265 / HEVC (8 bit) Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode Codec h265 / HEVC (10 bit) Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode Codec h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode Codec VP9 Decode / Encode
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 9 6900HX, while the Intel Pentium G4560 supports a maximum of 64 GB of memory with a maximum memory bandwidth of 38.4 GB/s enabled.

AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX Characteristic Intel Pentium G4560
LPDDR5-6400, DDR5-4800 Memory DDR4-2400
64 GB Max. Memory 64 GB
2 (Dual Channel) Memory channels 2 (Dual Channel)
76.8 GB/s Max. Bandwidth 38.4 GB/s
No ECC Yes
4.00 MB L2 Cache --
16.00 MB L3 Cache 3.00 MB
4.0 PCIe version 3.0
12 PCIe lanes 16
23.6 GB/s PCIe Bandwidth 15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

The AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX has a TDP of 45 W. The TDP of the Intel Pentium G4560 is 54 W. System integrators use the TDP of the processor as a guide when dimensioning the cooling solution.

AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX Characteristic Intel Pentium G4560
45 W TDP (PL1 / PBP) 54 W
-- TDP (PL2) --
54 W TDP up --
-- TDP down --
95 °C Tjunction max. --

Technical details

The AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX has 20.00 MB cache and is manufactured in 6 nm. The cache of Intel Pentium G4560 is at 3.00 MB. The processor is manufactured in 14 nm.

AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX Characteristic Intel Pentium G4560
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
FP7 Socket LGA 1151
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
Q1/2022 Release date Q1/2017
-- Release price 60 $
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Average performance in benchmarks

⌀ Single core performance in 4 CPU benchmarks
AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX (100%)
Intel Pentium G4560 (46%)
⌀ Multi core performance in 5 CPU benchmarks
AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX (100%)
Intel Pentium G4560 (16%)

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 9 6900HX AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX
8C 16T @ 4.90 GHz
1662 (100%)
Intel Pentium G4560 Intel Pentium G4560
2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
860 (52%)

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 9 6900HX AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX
8C 16T @ 4.20 GHz
14670 (100%)
Intel Pentium G4560 Intel Pentium G4560
2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
2344 (16%)

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 9 6900HX AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX
8C 16T @ 4.90 GHz
1644 (100%)
Intel Pentium G4560 Intel Pentium G4560
2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
903 (55%)

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 9 6900HX AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX
8C 16T @ 4.20 GHz
10609 (100%)
Intel Pentium G4560 Intel Pentium G4560
2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
2027 (19%)

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 9 6900HX AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX
8C 16T @ 4.90 GHz
2092 (100%)
Intel Pentium G4560 Intel Pentium G4560
2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
768 (37%)

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 9 6900HX AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX
8C 16T @ 4.20 GHz
9938 (100%)
Intel Pentium G4560 Intel Pentium G4560
2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
1547 (16%)

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 9 6900HX AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX
8C 16T @ 4.90 GHz
642 (100%)
Intel Pentium G4560 Intel Pentium G4560
2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
259 (40%)

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 9 6900HX AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX
8C 16T @ 4.20 GHz
5711 (100%)
Intel Pentium G4560 Intel Pentium G4560
2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
824 (14%)

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 9 6900HX AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX
AMD Radeon 680M @ 2.40 GHz
3686 (100%)
Intel Pentium G4560 Intel Pentium G4560
Intel HD Graphics 610 @ 1.05 GHz
202 (5%)

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 9 6900HX AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX
8C 16T @ 4.20 GHz
24939 (100%)
Intel Pentium G4560 Intel Pentium G4560
2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
3518 (14%)

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 9 6900HX AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX
8C 16T @ 4.20 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Pentium G4560 Intel Pentium G4560
2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
339 (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 9 6900HX AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX
8C 16T @ 3.30 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Pentium G4560 Intel Pentium G4560
2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
994 (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 9 6900HX AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX
8C 16T @ 4.90 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Pentium G4560 Intel Pentium G4560
2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
151 (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 9 6900HX AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX
8C 16T @ 4.20 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Pentium G4560 Intel Pentium G4560
2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
382 (100%)

Devices using this processor

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