AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS Benchmark, Test and specs

Last updated: 2023-08-10

The AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS is a 8 core processor. It can handle 16 threads simultaneously and was introduced in Q1/2022. The AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS is based on the 5. generation of the AMD Ryzen 9 series and requires a mainboard with the socket FP7. The AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS scores 1,640 points with one CPU core in the Geekbench 5 benchmark. When using all CPU cores, the result is 10,094 points.

CPU lineage
Here you can see which group the AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS belongs to and which processor is the predecessor of the AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS.
Name:	AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS
Family:	AMD Ryzen 9
CPU group:	AMD Ryzen 6000H/7035H
Architecture:	Rembrandt (Zen 3+)
Segment:	Mobile
Generation:	5
Predecessor:	AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS
Successor:	--

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The 8 CPU cores of the AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS clock with 3.00 GHz (4.60 GHz). The number of CPU cores and the clock frequency of the processor are largely responsible for the overall performance.

CPU Cores / Threads:	8 / 16
Core architecture:	normal
Cores:	8x Zen 3+

Hyperthreading / SMT:	Yes
Overclocking:	No
Frequency:	3.00 GHz
Turbo Frequency (1 Core):	4.60 GHz
Turbo Frequency (8 Cores):	3.80 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.

AI hardware:	--
AI specifications:	--

Internal Graphics

With the AMD Radeon 680M, the AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS has an build in graphic solution. It has 12 SM processors, which have a total of 768 texture shaders. The iGPU not only enables games, but also significantly accelerates video playback.

GPU name:	AMD Radeon 680M
GPU frequency:	2.00 GHz
GPU (Turbo):	2.40 GHz
Compute units:	12
Shader:	768
Max. GPU Memory:	8 GB

Max. displays:	3
Generation:	9
Direct X:	12
Technology:	6 nm
Release date:	Q1/2022

Hardware codec support

Processors that have an integrated graphics can play videos faster and more efficiently. This can have a positive effect on the battery life of notebooks, for example.

h265 / HEVC (8 bit):	Decode / Encode
h265 / HEVC (10 bit):	Decode / Encode
h264:	Decode / Encode
VP8:	Decode / Encode
VP9:	Decode / Encode

AV1:	Decode
AVC:	Decode / Encode
VC-1:	Decode
JPEG:	Decode / Encode

Memory type:	Memory bandwidth:
Memory & PCIe The AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS supports up to 64 GB memory in up to 2 (Dual Channel) memory channels. This results in a maximum memory bandwidth of 76.8 GB/s.

LPDDR5-6400 DDR5-4800	51.2 GB/s 76.8 GB/s
Max. Memory:	64 GB
Memory channels:	2 (Dual Channel)
ECC:	No
PCIe:	4.0 x 12
PCIe Bandwidth:	23.6 GB/s

Thermal Management With the TDP, the processor manufacturer specifies the cooling solution required for the processor. The AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS has a TDP of 35 W.

TDP (PL1 / PBP):	35 W
TDP (PL2):	--
TDP up:	54 W
TDP down:	--
Tjunction max.:	95 °C

Technical details

The AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS has a 20.00 MB large cache. The processor is manufactured in %%Manufacturing%%. Modern production increases the efficiency of the processor.

Technology:	6 nm
Chip design:	Monolithic
Socket:	FP7
L2-Cache:	4.00 MB
L3-Cache:	16.00 MB
AES-NI:	Yes
Operating systems:	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux

Virtualization:	AMD-V, SVM
Instruction set (ISA):	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions:	SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
Release date:	Q1/2022
Release price:	--
Part Number:	--
Documents:	Technical data sheet

AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS
8C 16T @ 3.00 GHz (4.60 GHz)

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Benchmark results

The benchmark results for the AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS have been carefully checked by us. We only publish benchmark results that have been created by us or that have been submitted by a visitor and then checked by a team member. All results are based on and fullfill our benchmark guidelines.

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.


	Apple M2 8C 8T @ 3.50 GHz	1592
	Apple M2 (8-GPU) 8C 8T @ 3.50 GHz	1592
	AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U 8C 16T @ 4.70 GHz	1587
	AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS 8C 16T @ 4.60 GHz	1579
	Intel Xeon W-11955M 8C 16T @ 5.00 GHz	1574
	Intel Core i9-11980HK 8C 16T @ 5.00 GHz	1574
	Intel Core i9-11950H 8C 16T @ 5.00 GHz	1574

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 5 7500F 6C 12T @ 4.40 GHz	14072
	AMD Ryzen 7 5800 8C 16T @ 4.00 GHz	14065
	Intel Core i5-12500H 12C 16T @ 3.20 GHz	14017
	AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS 8C 16T @ 3.80 GHz	13977
	Intel Core i9-11980HK 8C 16T @ 4.00 GHz	13977
	AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX 8C 16T @ 4.20 GHz	13955
	AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS Creator Edition 8C 16T @ 4.20 GHz	13875

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 6800HS 8C 16T @ 4.70 GHz	1643
	AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 8C 16T @ 4.50 GHz	1642
	Intel Xeon W-11855M 6C 12T @ 4.90 GHz	1642
	AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS 8C 16T @ 4.60 GHz	1640
	Intel Core i7-1365U 10C 12T @ 5.20 GHz	1636
	Intel Core i7-11850H 8C 16T @ 4.80 GHz	1634
	Intel Xeon E-2324G 4C 4T @ 4.60 GHz	1632

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.


	Intel Xeon E5-2697 v4 18C 36T @ 2.80 GHz	10154
	Intel Core i7-1280P 14C 20T @ 3.00 GHz	10126
	AMD Ryzen 7 5700G 8C 16T @ 4.20 GHz	10097
	AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS 8C 16T @ 3.80 GHz	10094
	Intel Core i7-11700B 8C 16T @ 4.00 GHz	10074
	Intel Xeon W-2245 8C 16T @ 4.50 GHz	10028
	Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU) 8C 8T @ 3.20 GHz	9996

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 Threadripper PRO 5975WX 32C 64T @ 4.50 GHz	2054
	Intel Core i5-11500 6C 12T @ 4.60 GHz	2042
	Intel Core i5-11500B 6C 12T @ 4.60 GHz	2042
	AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS 8C 16T @ 4.60 GHz	2040
	Intel Core i3-1210U 6C 8T @ 4.40 GHz	2040
	Intel Core i9-11900H 8C 16T @ 4.90 GHz	2040
	AMD EPYC 9654P 96C 192T @ 3.70 GHz	2025

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.


	Intel Core i9-10850K 10C 20T @ 4.80 GHz	9867
	AMD Ryzen 7 7735HS 8C 16T @ 3.20 GHz	9832
	Intel Core i7-1280P 14C 20T @ 3.00 GHz	9827
	AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS 8C 16T @ 3.80 GHz	9768
	Intel Xeon W-2191B 18C 36T @ 3.40 GHz	9768
	Intel Core i9-11980HK 8C 16T @ 4.00 GHz	9766
	Intel Core i5-13420H 8C 12T @ 4.00 GHz	9755

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 5900X 12C 24T @ 4.80 GHz	637
	Intel Core i5-1235U 10C 12T @ 4.40 GHz	637
	AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8C 16T @ 4.70 GHz	628
	AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS 8C 16T @ 4.60 GHz	614
	Intel Core i7-1260P 12C 16T @ 4.70 GHz	612
	Intel Core i7-11700KF 8C 16T @ 5.00 GHz	612
	Intel Core i7-11700K 8C 16T @ 5.00 GHz	612

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.


	Intel Core i9-11950H 8C 16T @ 3.70 GHz	5547
	AMD Ryzen 5 7500F 6C 12T @ 4.40 GHz	5540
	AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6860Z 8C 16T @ 2.70 GHz	5534
	AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS 8C 16T @ 3.80 GHz	5524
	AMD Ryzen 7 5700G 8C 16T @ 4.20 GHz	5517
	AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U 8C 16T @ 2.70 GHz	5486
	AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS Creator Edition 8C 16T @ 4.20 GHz	5474

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 7840HS AMD Radeon 780M @ 2.70 GHz	4201
	AMD Ryzen 7 7840U AMD Radeon 780M @ 2.70 GHz	4201
	Microsoft XBox Series S AMD Custom Radeon Graphics (XBox Series S) @ 1.57 GHz	4000
	AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS AMD Radeon 680M @ 2.40 GHz	3686
	AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850HS AMD Radeon 680M @ 2.40 GHz	3686
	AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 6950HS AMD Radeon 680M @ 2.40 GHz	3686
	AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H AMD Radeon 680M @ 2.40 GHz	3686

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.


	Intel Core i7-11700K 8C 16T @ 4.50 GHz	24332
	Intel Core i7-11700KF 8C 16T @ 4.50 GHz	24332
	Intel Core i5-12600HX 12C 16T @ 2.50 GHz	24105
	AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS 8C 16T @ 3.80 GHz	24035
	Intel Xeon W-2170B 14C 28T @ 3.60 GHz	23972
	Intel Xeon Gold 6140 18C 36T @ 2.80 GHz	23965
	Intel Xeon W-1370 8C 16T @ 4.00 GHz	23924

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 9 5900HS Creator Edition 8C 16T @ 4.20 GHz	174
	Intel Core i9-12900HK 14C 20T @ 3.80 GHz	182
	Intel Xeon E5-2690 v3 12C 24T @ 3.00 GHz	185.5
	AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS 8C 16T @ 3.80 GHz	191
	Intel Core i9-11900KB 8C 16T @ 4.90 GHz	200
	AMD Ryzen 9 4900H 8C 16T @ 4.00 GHz	202
	AMD Ryzen 9 4900HS 8C 16T @ 3.90 GHz	208

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 5700X 8C 16T @ 4.60 GHz	253
	Intel Core i5-13400 10C 16T @ 4.60 GHz	253
	Intel Core i5-13400F 10C 16T @ 4.60 GHz	253
	AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS 8C 16T @ 4.60 GHz	252
	Intel Core i3-13100F 4C 8T @ 4.50 GHz	252
	Intel Core i3-13100 4C 8T @ 4.50 GHz	252
	AMD Ryzen 7 5700G 8C 16T @ 4.60 GHz	250

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.


	Intel Xeon Gold 6130T 16C 32T @ 2.60 GHz	2296
	Intel Core i7-10700 8C 16T @ 4.60 GHz	2291
	Intel Core i7-10700F 8C 16T @ 4.60 GHz	2291
	AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS 8C 16T @ 3.80 GHz	2276
	Intel Xeon W-2255 10C 20T @ 4.40 GHz	2265
	Intel Xeon Platinum 8158 12C 24T @ 3.40 GHz	2265
	Intel Xeon Gold 6132 14C 28T @ 2.90 GHz	2256

Benchmarks

Cinebench R23 (SC)
564 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
540 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,439 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,412 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,700 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,649 entries

Cinebench R20 (SC)
648 entries

Cinebench R20 (MC)
596 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
1,954 entries

3DMark Timespy (iGPU)
478 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,337 entries

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
190 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,104 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,099 entries

Description of the processor

The AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS is a mobile processor from the 5th generation of the AMD Ryzen 9 series. It has 8 cores with 16 threads. The processor uses a motherboard with the FP7 socket and was released in the first quarter of 2022. The processors predecessor is the AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS.

The processor uses a normal core architecture with 8 Zen 3+ cores. The processor uses Hyperthreading/SMT technology. The base clock speed for the AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS is 3.00 GHz, the turbo clock speed with one core is 4.60 GHz and the turbo clock speed with 8 cores is 3.80 GHz.

The AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS comes with the AMD Radeon RX 680M as integrated graphics (iGPU). The graphics clock frequency is 2.00 GHz, it has 12 units and works with 768 shaders, with a maximum GPU memory of 8GB.

The processor can decode AV1, VC-1 and decode and encode h265/HEVC (8 bit), h265/HEVC (10 bit), h264, VP8, VP9, AVC and JPEG. The memory type is DDR5-4800 or LPDDR5-6400 with a maximum memory of 64 gigabytes. It has 4 memory channels and runs at a bandwidth of 76.8 GB/s. The processor supports PCIe 4.0, with 12 lanes and supports AES-NI encryption. The TDP (Thermal Design Power) is 35 W and the maximum temperature is 105°C.

The processor was manufactured in 6nm. The chip design was built using the chiplet concept and is based on the Rembrandt architecture (Zen 3+). The L2 cache is 4.00 MB, the L3 cache is 16.00 MB. The full x86-64 instruction set (ISA) is supported, so the processor is fully 64-bit capable, and it also has the extensions SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2 and FMA3. The processor is compatible with Windows 10 and 11, as well as Linux.

The AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS achieves 1,640 points in the Geekbench 5 (64bit, single-core) test and in the Geekbench 5 (64bit, multi-core) test it gets 10,094 points.

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