AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D vs Intel Core i7 6700HQ
We compared two laptop CPUs: AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D with 16 cores 2.5GHz and Intel Core i7 6700HQ with 4 cores 2.6GHz . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption and more.
Main Differences
AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 4 months late
Higher specification of memory (5600 vs 2133)
Newer PCIe version (5.0 vs 3.0)
Larger L3 cache size (128MB vs 6MB)
More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 14nm)
Intel Core i7 6700HQ 's Advantages
Higher base frequency (2.6GHz vs 2.5GHz)
Lower TDP (45W vs 75W)
Score
Benchmark
Cinebench R23 Single Core
AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D
+139%
2172
Intel Core i7 6700HQ
908
Cinebench R23 Multi Core
AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D
+778%
37246
Intel Core i7 6700HQ
4239
Geekbench 6 Single Core
AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D
+203%
3166
Intel Core i7 6700HQ
1044
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D
+458%
19845
Intel Core i7 6700HQ
3554
General Parameters
Jan 2025
Release Date
Sep 2015
Amd
Manufacturer
Intel
Laptop
Type
Laptop
x86-64
Instruction Set
x86-64
Zen 5 (Fire Range)
Core Architecture
Skylake
9955HX3D
Processor Number
i7-6700HQ
FL1
Socket
BGA-1440
Radeon 610M
Integrated Graphics
HD Graphics 530
Package
4 nm
Manufacturing Process
14 nm
55-75 W
Power Consumption
45 W
100 W
Max Turbo Power Consumption
-
100 °C
Peak Operating Temperature
100 °C
CPU Performance
16
Performance Cores
4
32
Performance Core Threads
8
2.5 GHz
Performance Core Base Frequency
2.6 GHz
5.4 GHz
Performance Core Turbo Frequency
3.5 GHz
16
Total Core Count
4
32
Total Thread Count
8
100 MHz
Bus Frequency
-
25
Multiplier
26x
80 K per core
L1 Cache
128 K per core
1 MB per core
L2 Cache
256 K per core
128 MB shared
L3 Cache
6 MB shared
Yes
Unlocked Multiplier
No
Memory Parameters
DDR5-5600
Memory Types
DDR4-2133, LPDDR3-1866, DDR3L-1600
96 GB
Max Memory Size
64 GB
2
Max Memory Channels
2
-
Max Memory Bandwidth
34.1 GB/s
Yes
ECC Memory Support
No
Graphics Card Parameters
true
Integrated Graphics
true
400 MHz
GPU Base Frequency
-
2200 MHz
GPU Max Dynamic Frequency
1050 MHz
128
Shader Units
-
8
Texture Units
-
4
Raster Operation Units
-
2
Execution Units
-
15
Power Consumption
-
0.6 TFLOPS
Graphics Performance
-
Miscellaneous
5.0
PCIe Version
3.0
28
PCIe Lanes
16
-
Extended Instruction Set
SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX-2
