AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX vs Intel Core i7-8550U. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• Family
  AMD Ryzen Intel Core i7
• CPU group
  AMD Ryzen 6000H Intel Core i 8000U
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Generation
  5 8
• Predecessor
  AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX --

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• Core architecture
  normal normal
• Frequency
  3.30 GHz 1.80 GHz
• Turbo (1 Core)
  4.90 GHz 4.00 GHz
• Hyperthreading
  Yes Yes
• Overclocking
  No No

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• GPU name
  AMD Radeon RX 680M Intel UHD Graphics 620
• GPU frequency
  2.40 GHz 0.30 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo 1.15 GHz
• Execution units
  12 24
• Shader
  768 192
• Max. GPU Memory
  8 GB 64 GB
• Max. displays
  3 3
• Generation
  9 9.5
• Technology
  6 nm 14 nm
• Release date
  Q1/2022 Q3/2016

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h264
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP8
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP9
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• AV1
  Decode No
• AVC
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i7-8550U and AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR5-4800LPDDR5-6400 DDR4-2400 SO-DIMM
• Max. Memory
  64 GB 32 GB
• Memory channels
  2 2
• ECC
  No No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX and Intel Core i7-8550U to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  45 W 15 W
• TDP up
  54 W --
• Tjunction max.
  105 °C --

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX and AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• L2-Cache
  4.00 MB --
• L3-Cache
  16.00 MB 8.00 MB
• Architecture
  Rembrandt (Zen 3+) Kaby Lake U Refresh
• Technology
  6 nm 14 nm
• Virtualization
  AMD-V, SVM VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
• Socket
  FP7 BGA 1356
• Release date
  Q1/2022 Q3/2017