AMD announced its brand-spankin' new line of Ryzen 6000 mobile chips at CES 2022, and of course, we can't help but wonder how they'll stack up against Intel, its fiercest competitor. Thanks to a new Geekbench leak, we've got a glimpse of how well AMD's Rembrandt-H line can perform — and perhaps Intel may not have to worry.
The results show that Intel has the leg up over AMD performance-wise, but as Digital Trends pointed out, it's not over for AMD just yet. It may have the edge over Intel in other ways.
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AMD Ryzen 6000 chip bested by Intel counterpart
On Tuesday, BenchLeaks tweeted that they spotted AMD's 8-core, 16-thread Ryzen 9 6900HX mobile chip on the Geekbench database. The forthcoming APU features a new six-nanometer architecture and Zen 3+ cores. The base clock speed for the processor chips is 3.3 GHz; it climbs to 4.9 GHz in boost mode.
[GB5 CPU] Unknown CPUCPU: AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX (8C 16T)Min/Max/Avg: 4744/4845/4826 MHzCPUID: A40F41 (AuthenticAMD)Scores, vs AMD 5800XSingle: 1593, -7.8%Multi: 10151, -5.5%https://t.co/LEl7Z9roUiJanuary 25, 2022
The AMD APU, packed inside a Windows 11 Pro Lenovo laptop with 32GB of RAM, scored 1,616 points and 10,151 points for the single-core and multi-core tests. This is impressive when you compare these results to its predecessor (AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX), which notched 1,417 points (single-core) and 7,685 (multi-core) points. The Ryzen 9 6900HX chip is 14% faster with single-core processes and 33% zippier for multi-core operations.
However, when stacked against its Intel counterpart (Core i9-12900H), the Ryzen 9 6900HX chip got crushed. The flagship Intel processor achieved scores of 1,962 (single-core) and 14,542 (multi-core). The Core i9-12900H chip bested the Ryzen 9 6900HX APU by 21% and 44% for single-core and multi-core performance, respectively. Yikes!
Despite this, the AMD APU has an edge in other aspects, especially when it comes to energy consumption. The Intel Core i9-12900H processor is less power efficient than its AMD rival. As such, gaming laptops with the new AMD chip will likely offer a longer battery runtime and better thermal performance.
As a cherry on top, the Ryzen 9 6900HX chip is an APU, which means its Intel counterpart can't compete with its graphical processing power. According to DigitalTrends, the Ryzen 9 6900HX APU has gaming power that aligns with Nvidia's GeForce GTX 1650 GPU.
AMD may have gotten crushed by Intel this time, but you've got to admit: the Ryzen 6000 mobile chips' power efficiency and graphics power are pretty good selling points, too.
