AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX: specs and benchmarks

General info
Technical specs
Technologies
Benchmarks
Gaming
Intel equivalent
User rating
Advices and comments
Summary
AMD started AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX sales 7 January 2021. This is Cezanne U (Zen 3) architecture notebook processor primarily aimed at home systems. It has 8 cores and 16 threads, and is based on 7 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 4600 MHz and a locked multiplier.
Compatibility-wise, this is FP6 processor with a TDP of 45 Watt.
It provides good benchmark performance at 27.09 percent of a leader's which is AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3995WX.
General info
Of Ryzen 9 5900HX processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture and sales start time and price.
Type
Laptop
Series
AMD Cezanne (Zen 3, Ryzen 5000)
Architecture codename
Cezanne U (Zen 3)
Release date
7 January 2021
Technical specs
Ryzen 9 5900HX's quantitative parameters such as cores and threads number, clocks, manufacturing process, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of Ryzen 9 5900HX's performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.
Number of cores
8
Number of threads
16
64 bit support
+
Compatibility
Information on Ryzen 9 5900HX compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one.
Socket
FP6
Technologies and extensions
Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Ryzen 9 5900HX. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
Instruction set extensions
XFR, FMA3, SSE 4.2, AVX2, SMT
Graphics specifications
General parameters of GPU integrated into Ryzen 9 5900HX.
Benchmark performance
Non-gaming benchmarks performance of Ryzen 9 5900HX. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.
Overall benchmark performance
27.09
Passmark
24039
Game benchmarks
Let's see how good Ryzen 9 5900HX is for gaming compared with game system requirements. Remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect real performance inaccurately.
Relative perfomance
Overall Ryzen 9 5900HX performance compared to nearest competitors. All CPU types participate.
Intel equivalent
We believe that the nearest equivalent to Ryzen 9 5900HX from Intel is Core i9-10980HK, which is slower by 29% and lower by 98 positions in our rating.