Product Compare

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 vs Intel Core i7 6900K

	CPU AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2	CPU Intel Core i7 6900K
General Parameters
Release Date	Mar 2026	May 2016
Manufacturer	Amd	Intel
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Instruction Set	x86-64	x86-64
Core Architecture	Zen 5 (Granite Ridge)	Broadwell E
Processor Number	9950X3D2	i7-6900K
Integrated Graphics	Radeon Graphics	N/A
Package
Manufacturing Process	4 nm	14 nm
Socket	AM5	LGA-2011-3
Power Consumption	200 W	140 W
Max Turbo Power Consumption	270 W
Peak Operating Temperature	95 °C
CPU Performance
Performance Cores	16	8
Performance Core Threads	32	16
Performance Core Base Frequency	4.3 GHz	3.2 GHz
Performance Core Turbo Frequency	5.6 GHz	3.7 GHz
Total Core Count	16	8
Total Thread Count	32	16
Bus Frequency	100 MHz	100 MHz
Multiplier	43	32x
L1 Cache	80 K per core	64 K per core
L2 Cache	1 MB per core	256 K per core
L3 Cache	192 MB shared	20 MB shared
Unlocked Multiplier	Yes	No
Memory Parameters
Memory Types	DDR5-5600	DDR4-2133
Max Memory Bandwidth	89.6 GB/s	76.8 GB/s
ECC Memory Support	Yes	No
Max Memory Size		128 GB
Max Memory Channels		4
Graphics Card Parameters
Integrated Graphics	true
GPU Base Frequency	400 MHz
GPU Max Dynamic Frequency	2200 MHz
Shader Units	128
Texture Units	8
Raster Operation Units	4
Execution Units	2
Power Consumption	15
Miscellaneous
Official Website	Official Link ↗	Official Link ↗
PCIe Version	5.0	3.0
PCIe Lanes	28	40
Benchmarks
Geekbench 6 Single Core	3551	1286
Geekbench 6 Multi Core	24343	7470