Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3 vs AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX

Last updated: 2023-11-07

CPU comparison with benchmarks


Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3		AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX
CPU comparison Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3 or AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX - which processor is faster? In this comparison we look at the differences and analyze which of these two CPUs is better. We compare the technical data and benchmark results. The Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3 has 8 cores with 8 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 3.00 GHz. Up to 16 GB of memory is supported in 8 memory channels. The Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3 was released in Q3/2022. The AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX has 8 cores with 16 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 4.60 GHz. The CPU supports up to 64 GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX was released in Q2/2021.

Qualcomm Snapdragon (103)	Family	AMD Ryzen 9 (40)
Qualcomm Snapdragon SQ3 (1)	CPU group	AMD Ryzen 5000H (11)
2	Generation	4
Kryo 680	Architecture	Cezanne (Zen 3)
Mobile	Segment	Mobile
--	Predecessor	--
--	Successor	AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX

CPU Cores and Base Frequency The Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3 is a 8 core processor with a clock frequency of 3.00 GHz. The AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX has 8 CPU cores with a clock frequency of 3.30 GHz (4.60 GHz).
Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3	Characteristic	AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX
8	Cores	8
8	Threads	16
hybrid (big.LITTLE)	Core architecture	normal
No	Hyperthreading	Yes
No	Overclocking ?	No
3.00 GHz 4x Kryo 680 Gold	A-Core	3.30 GHz (4.60 GHz)
2.40 GHz 4x Kryo 680 Silver	B-Core	--

NPU AI performance The performance values of the processor's AI unit. The isolated NPU performance is specified here, the total AI performance (NPU+CPU+iGPU) can be higher. Processors with support for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors.
Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3	Characteristic	AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX
--	AI hardware	--
--	AI specifications	--
--	NPU + CPU + iGPU	--

Integrated graphics (iGPU) The integrated graphics unit of a processor is not only responsible for the pure image output on the system, but can also significantly increase the efficiency of the system with the support of modern video codecs.
Qualcomm Adreno 690	GPU	AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Renoir)
	GPU frequency	0.40 GHz
--	GPU (Turbo)	1.90 GHz
6	GPU Generation	9
7 nm	Technology	7 nm
0	Max. displays	3
--	Compute units	8
--	Shader	512
No	Hardware Raytracing	No
No	Frame Generation	No
--	Max. GPU Memory	8 GB
12.0	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.
Qualcomm Adreno 690	GPU	AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Renoir)
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	Codec VP9	Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode	Codec VP8	Decode / Encode
No	Codec AV1	No
Decode	Codec AVC	Decode / Encode
Decode	Codec VC-1	Decode
Decode / Encode	Codec JPEG	Decode / Encode

Memory & PCIe The Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3 supports a maximum of 16 GB of memory in 8 memory channels. The AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX can connect up to 64 GB of memory in 2 memory channels.
Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3	Characteristic	AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX
LPDDR4X-2133	Memory	LPDDR4-4266, DDR4-3200
16 GB	Max. Memory	64 GB
8 (Octa Channel)	Memory channels	2 (Dual Channel)
68.3 GB/s	Max. Bandwidth	51.2 GB/s
No	ECC	No
--	L2 Cache	4.00 MB
--	L3 Cache	16.00 MB
--	PCIe version	3.0
--	PCIe lanes	12
--	PCIe Bandwidth	11.8 GB/s
Thermal Management The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of a processor specifies the required cooling solution. The Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3 has a TDP of --, that of the AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX is 45 W.
Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3	Characteristic	AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX
--	TDP (PL1 / PBP)	45 W
--	TDP (PL2)	--
--	TDP up	54 W
--	TDP down	35 W
--	Tjunction max.	105 °C
Technical details The Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3 has a 0.00 MB cache, while the AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX cache has a total of 20.00 MB.
Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3	Characteristic	AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX
5 nm	Technology	7 nm
Chiplet	Chip design	Chiplet
Armv8-A (64 bit)	Instruction set (ISA)	x86-64 (64 bit)
--	ISA extensions	SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
--	Socket	FP6
None	Virtualization	AMD-V, SVM
No	AES-NI	Yes
Android, Windows 10 (ARM)	Operating systems	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux
Q3/2022	Release date	Q2/2021
--	Release price	--

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Average performance in benchmarks

⌀ Single core performance in 3 CPU benchmarks

Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3 (58%)

AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX (96%)

⌀ Multi core performance in 4 CPU benchmarks

Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3 (60%)

AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX (79%)

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.


	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3 8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	605 (41%)
	AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX 8C 16T @ 4.60 GHz	1478 (100%)

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.


	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3 8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	3571 (26%)
	AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX 8C 16T @ 4.20 GHz	13955 (100%)

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.


	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3 8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	1688 (100%)
	AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX 8C 16T @ 4.60 GHz	1510 (89%)

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.


	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3 8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	7538 (89%)
	AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX 8C 16T @ 4.20 GHz	8432 (100%)

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.


	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3 8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	198 (34%)
	AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX 8C 16T @ 4.60 GHz	578 (100%)

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.


	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3 8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	1261 (23%)
	AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX 8C 16T @ 4.20 GHz	5474 (100%)

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.


	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3 8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	1057 (100%)
	AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX 8C 16T @ 4.20 GHz	174 (16%)

Cinebench 2024 (Single-Core)

The Cinebench 2024 benchmark is based on the Redshift rendering engine, which is also used in Maxon's 3D program Cinema 4D. The benchmark runs are each 10 minutes long to test whether the processor is limited by its heat generation.


	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3 8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	0 (0%)
	AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX 8C 16T @ 4.60 GHz	86 (100%)

Cinebench 2024 (Multi-Core)

The Multi-Core test of the Cinebench 2024 benchmark uses all cpu cores to render using the Redshift rendering engine, which is also used in Maxons Cinema 4D. The benchmark run is 10 minutes long to test whether the processor is limited by its heat generation.


	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3 8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	0 (0%)
	AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX 8C 16T @ 4.60 GHz	578 (100%)

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.


	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3 8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	0 (0%)
	AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX 8C 16T @ 4.60 GHz	1992 (100%)

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.


	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3 8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	0 (0%)
	AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX 8C 16T @ 4.20 GHz	7255 (100%)

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.


	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3 Qualcomm Adreno 690 @ 0.00 GHz	0 (0%)
	AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Renoir) @ 1.90 GHz	1946 (100%)

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.


	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3 8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	0 (0%)
	AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX 8C 16T @ 4.20 GHz	183 (100%)

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.


	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3 8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	0 (0%)
	AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX 8C 16T @ 4.20 GHz	22815 (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.


	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3 8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	0 (0%)
	AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX 8C 16T @ 4.20 GHz	596 (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.


	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3 8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	0 (0%)
	AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX 8C 16T @ 3.30 GHz	5692 (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.


	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3 8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	117 (100%)
	AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX 8C 16T @ 4.60 GHz	0 (0%)

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.


	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3 8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	771 (100%)
	AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX 8C 16T @ 4.20 GHz	0 (0%)

Devices using this processor
Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3	AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX
Microsoft Surface Pro 9	Unknown

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