RDNA2-loaded Ryzen 9 6900HX finally appears on PassMark surpassing mobile Zen 3's finest and the Intel Core i7-12800H

The Ryzen 9 6900HX has taken its time to appear on the PassMark benchmark database, but it has finally arrived, and although it hasn’t smashed the charts to smithereens it has made the kind of appearance that will satisfy those considering buying a laptop like the Asus ROG Zephyrus Duo 16. Not only does the AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX compute at speed thanks to its Zen 3+ architecture, 8 cores, 16 threads, and 4.9 GHz turbo clock rate, it also boasts of featuring an RDNA2 iGPU in the form of the Radeon 680M, which offers 12 CUs and up to 2,400 MHz core speed.

It's an attractive package, and the single Ryzen 9 6900HX sample on PassMark churns out respectable results: 3,466 points in single-thread testing and 24,143 points in multi-testing. This leaves it about +4% ahead of the Ryzen 9 5980HX in the former and just over +3% up in the multi-benchmark suite. While the Intel Core i7-12800H can come up with around a +4% advantage over the Zen 3+ part in single-thread, the Alder Lake mobile chip gets demolished in the multi-test benchmark run: 19,052 vs. 24,143 points leaves the Ryzen 9 6900HX with a +26.72% lead.

There are plenty of caveats as always. On the pro-Intel side, the Intel Core i7-12800H also has a high margin for error with its results based on three samples, and the Intel Core i9-12900H unsurprisingly hammers the AMD rival in both disciplines (see comparison below). However, on the pro-AMD side, the Ryzen 9 6900HX performs at this high rate with fewer cores/threads than the Team Blue competition (8c/16t vs. 14c/20t), and although PassMark lists 45 W Max TDP for all the parts in the comparison, the Intel chips have TDP up figures of 115 W.

Unfortunately, the site does not state specific power usage during testing, but one can imagine the Ryzen chip was likely requiring a much smaller amount from the socket than the Intel Core processors. Last but certainly not least, the AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX has that superfast Radeon 680M iGPU going for it, which can offer +30 FPS rates for demanding games such as God of War and Cyberpunk 2077 1.5 as long as low presets @1920x1080 are selected. Hardware-raytracing is also supported, although it is reportedly something of a mixed bag of a feature so far.

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