AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX Benchmark, Test and specs

Last updated: 2024-02-05

The AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX was released in Q1/2022 and has 8 cores. The processor can process 16 threads simultaneously and uses a mainboard with the socket FP7. In the Geekbench 5 benchmark, the AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX achieved a result of 1,644 points (single-core) or 10,609 points (multi-core).

CPU lineage
In this classification you can see to which group of processors the AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX belongs. We also show the direct predecessor and successor of AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX.
Name:	AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX
Family:	AMD Ryzen 9 (35)
CPU group:	AMD Ryzen 6000H/7035H (20)
Architecture:	Rembrandt (Zen 3+)
Segment:	Mobile
Generation:	5
Predecessor:	AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX
Successor:	--

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX has 8 cores. The clock frequency of the AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX is 3.30 GHz (4.90 GHz). An initial performance assessment can be made using the number of CPU cores.

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

Hyperthreading / SMT:	Yes
Overclocking:	No
Frequency:	3.30 GHz
Turbo Frequency (1 Core):	4.90 GHz
Turbo Frequency (8 Cores):	4.20 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.

AI hardware:	--
AI specifications:	--

Internal Graphics

The AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX has an integrated graphics that the system can use to efficiently play back videos. The AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX has the AMD Radeon 680M installed, which has 12 streaming multiprocessors (768 shaders).

GPU name:	AMD Radeon 680M
GPU frequency:	2.00 GHz
GPU (Turbo):	2.40 GHz
Compute units:	12
Shader:	768
Hardware Raytracing:	Yes
Release date:	Q1/2022

Max. displays:	3
Generation:	9
Direct X:	12
Technology:	6 nm
Max. GPU Memory:	8 GB
Frame Generation:	No

Hardware codec support

Processors with integrated graphics can process video codecs faster. Support for modern codecs can significantly increase system efficiency during video playback.

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 6900HX supports a maximum of 64 GB memory. Depending on the mainboard, the processor can use a maximum of 2 (Dual Channel) memory channels. This results in a maximum bandwidth of the main memory 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 The AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX has a TDP of 45 W. Based on the TDP, the system manufacturer can and must adapt the cooling solution to the processor.

TDP (PL1 / PBP):	45 W
TDP (PL2):	--
TDP up:	54 W
TDP down:	--
Tjunction max.:	95 °C

Technical details

Modern production reduces the waste heat of a processor and increases its efficiency. The AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX is made in 6 nm and has 20.00 MB cache.

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 6900HX
8C 16T @ 3.30 GHz (4.90 GHz)

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Benchmark results

The benchmark results for the AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX 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.


	Intel Core i5-1235U 10C 12T @ 4.40 GHz	1668
	Intel Core i7-11700B 8C 16T @ 5.30 GHz	1663
	Intel Core i9-11900KB 8C 16T @ 5.30 GHz	1663
	AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX 8C 16T @ 4.90 GHz	1662
	AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 6950HS 8C 16T @ 4.90 GHz	1662
	AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H 8C 16T @ 4.90 GHz	1662
	Intel Core i3-12100F 4C 8T @ 4.30 GHz	1658

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.


	Intel Core Ultra 5 125H 14C 18T @ 4.50 GHz	14771
	AMD Ryzen 9 6980HS 8C 16T @ 4.20 GHz	14736
	AMD Ryzen 9 6980HX 8C 16T @ 4.40 GHz	14711
	AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX 8C 16T @ 4.20 GHz	14670
	AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 6950HS 8C 16T @ 4.20 GHz	14670
	AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H 8C 16T @ 4.20 GHz	14670
	AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 7645 6C 12T @ 4.50 GHz	14540

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.


	Intel Core i5-12400 6C 12T @ 4.40 GHz	1647
	Intel Core i9-11950H 8C 16T @ 5.00 GHz	1645
	Intel Core i9-11980HK 8C 16T @ 5.00 GHz	1645
	AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX 8C 16T @ 4.90 GHz	1644
	Intel Core i5-13400F 10C 16T @ 4.60 GHz	1644
	Intel Core i5-13400 10C 16T @ 4.60 GHz	1644
	Intel Core i5-1245U 10C 12T @ 4.40 GHz	1644

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 Gold 6130 16C 32T @ 2.60 GHz	10644
	AMD Ryzen 5 8600G 6C 12T @ 4.75 GHz	10638
	AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 8600G 6C 12T @ 4.75 GHz	10638
	AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX 8C 16T @ 4.20 GHz	10609
	Intel Xeon Gold 6334 8C 16T @ 3.70 GHz	10596
	Intel Core i9-9900X 10C 20T @ 4.30 GHz	10490
	Intel Core i5-13600H 12C 16T @ 4.60 GHz	10480

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.


	Intel Core i7-1365UE 10C 12T @ 4.90 GHz	2096
	Intel Core i7-1365URE 10C 12T @ 4.90 GHz	2096
	Intel Core Ultra 5 134U 12C 14T @ 4.40 GHz	2095
	AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX 8C 16T @ 4.90 GHz	2092
	Intel Core i5-1235U 10C 12T @ 4.40 GHz	2089
	AMD Ryzen 5 5600X3D 6C 12T @ 4.40 GHz	2088
	AMD Ryzen 5 5600 6C 12T @ 4.40 GHz	2087

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 Xeon W-1290P 10C 20T @ 4.40 GHz	10012
	Intel Xeon W-11955M 8C 16T @ 3.20 GHz	9986
	Intel Core i5-12500H 12C 16T @ 3.20 GHz	9961
	AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX 8C 16T @ 4.20 GHz	9938
	Intel Core i9-7920X 12C 24T @ 3.70 GHz	9881
	Intel Core i9-10850K 10C 20T @ 4.80 GHz	9867
	AMD Ryzen 7 7735HS 8C 16T @ 3.20 GHz	9832

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 5950X 16C 32T @ 4.90 GHz	647
	Intel Core i9-10900K 10C 20T @ 5.30 GHz	645
	Intel Core i9-10900KF 10C 20T @ 5.30 GHz	645
	AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX 8C 16T @ 4.90 GHz	642
	AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 6950HS 8C 16T @ 4.90 GHz	642
	AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H 8C 16T @ 4.90 GHz	642
	Intel Core i3-12100F 4C 8T @ 4.30 GHz	642

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 6980HX 8C 16T @ 4.40 GHz	5745
	Intel Xeon W-3235 12C 24T @ 4.00 GHz	5742
	AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8C 16T @ 4.40 GHz	5724
	AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX 8C 16T @ 4.20 GHz	5711
	AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 6950HS 8C 16T @ 4.20 GHz	5711
	AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H 8C 16T @ 4.20 GHz	5711
	Intel Core i7-11700KF 8C 16T @ 4.50 GHz	5709

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 6900HX 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 Xeon W-1370P 8C 16T @ 4.40 GHz	24989
	Intel Core i5-13600HE 12C 16T @ 4.50 GHz	24970
	Intel Core i5-13600HRE 12C 16T @ 4.50 GHz	24970
	AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX 8C 16T @ 4.20 GHz	24939
	AMD EPYC 7501 32C 64T @ 2.60 GHz	24936
	Intel Core Ultra 7 155H 16C 22T @ 4.20 GHz	24916
	Intel Xeon Gold 6138T 20C 40T @ 2.80 GHz	24812

Benchmarks

Cinebench R23 (SC)
586 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
565 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,488 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,461 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,754 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,702 entries

Cinebench R20 (SC)
656 entries

Cinebench R20 (MC)
604 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,026 entries

3DMark Timespy (iGPU)
512 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,392 entries

V-Ray CPU-Render
249 entries

Description of the processor

The AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX is a mobile processor and has 8 cores with 16 threads and comes from the 5th generation of the AMD Ryzen 9 series. The processor uses a motherboard with an FP7 socket and was released in the first quarter of 2022. The predecessor is the AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX. The AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX has a normal core architecture with a total of 8 Zen 3+ cores. The processor uses Hyperthreading, but cannot be overclocked. It has a base clock frequency of 3.30 GHz, the turbo clock frequency with one core is 4.90 GHz, with the turbo clock frequency with eight cores it is 4.20 GHz.

The AMD Ryzen 6 6900HX has an internal graphics called AMD Radeon RX 680M with a clock frequency of 2.00 GHz. The internal graphics have 12 units with 768 shaders, the maximum GPU memory is 8 GB and it can work with a maximum of 3 displays. The internal graphics are from the 9th generation and support DirectX 12. The AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX can decode and encode h265/HEVC (8 bit), h265/HEVC (10 bit), h264, VP8, VP9, AVC and JPEG, as well as Decode AV1 and VC-1.

The processors memory type uses DDR5-4800 and LPDDR5-6400 with a maximum memory of 64 GB and 4 memory channels (quad channel). The maximum bandwidth is 76.8 GB/s. The TDP (Thermal Design Power) is 45 watts and the maximum temperature before the CPU clocks down is 95° C.

The chip design is based on the chiplet concept and the Rembrandt (Zen 3+) architecture. The AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX is compatible with Windows 10 and 11, as well as Linux. The full x86-64 instruction set (ISA) is supported, so the processor is fully 64-bit capable and supports the following extensions SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3.

The AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX received a total of 1,644 points in the Geekbench 5 (64-bit, single-core) test and 10,609 points in the Geekbench 5 (64-bit, multi-core) test.

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