Comparison of AMD Ryzen 9 5900H and Intel Core i7-6850K

Attribute	AMD Ryzen 9 5900H ×	Intel Core i7-6850K ×
General Information
Brand	AMD	Intel
Series	AMD Ryzen	Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition
Model	AMD Ryzen 9 5900H	Intel Core i7-6850K
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	8	6
Frequency (GHz)	3.1	3.6
CPU Threads	16	12
Core architecture	normal	normal
Hyperthreading	+	+
Overclocking	+	+
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)	4.6	3.8
Encryption
AES-NI	+	+
Hardware codec support
JPEG	Decode / Encode	No
h264	Decode / Encode	No
h265 / HEVC (8 bit)	Decode / Encode	No
h265 / HEVC (10 bit)	Decode / Encode	No
VP8	Decode / Encode	No
AV1	No	No
VC-1	Decode	No
VP9	Decode / Encode	No
AVC	Decode / Encode	No
Internal Graphics
GPU name	AMD Radeon 8 Graphics (Renoir)	-
GPU frequency (GHz)	1.75	-
Generation	9	-
DirectX Version	12	-
Execution units	8	-
Shader	512	-
Max. GPU Memory (GB)	2	-
Max. displays	3	-
GPU Release date (year)	2020	-
Memory And PCIe
Memory type	DDR4-3200	DDR4-2133DDR4-2400
Max. Memory (GB)	64	128
PCIe lanes	12	40
PCIe version	3.0	3.0
ECC	+	-
Memory channels	2	4
Technical details
Release date (year)	2021	2016
Technology (Nm)	7	14
Socket	AM4	LGA 2011-3
Virtualization	amd-v sev	vt-d vt-x vt-x ept
L3-Cache (MB)	16	15
L2-Cache (MB)	4	-
Architecture	Cezanne (Zen 3)	Broadwell E
Instruction set (ISA)	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
Thermal Management
Temp junction max (°C)	95	100
TDP up (W)	54	-
TDP (PL1) (W)	45	140
Benchmarks
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)	1,792	403
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)	1,497	998
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	8,849	5,986
Blender 2.81 (bmw27)	-	279.7