Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregated performance score

Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H provides good benchmark performance at 14.51% of a leader's which is a 96-core Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX.

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Summary

AMD started Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H sales 19 April 2022. This is a Rembrandt-H (Zen 3+) architecture notebook processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 8 cores and 16 threads, and is based on 6 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 4900 MHz and a locked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is AMD Socket FP7 processor with a TDP of 45 Watt. It supports DDR5 memory.

Primary details

Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in performance ranking452
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Market segmentLaptop
Architecture codenameRembrandt-H (Zen 3+)
Release date19 April 2022 (2 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Basic microprocessor parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters can generally indicate CPU performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.

Physical cores8 (Octa-Core)
Threads16
Base clock speed3.3 GHzof 4.7 (Ryzen 9 7900X)
Boost clock speed4.9 GHzof 6.2 (Core i9-14900KS)
L1 cache64K (per core)of 7475.2 (Apple M2 Pro 10-Core)
L2 cache512K (per core)of 98304 (Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX)
L3 cache16 MB (shared)of 768 (EPYC 7773X)
Chip lithography6 nmof 3 (Apple M3 Max 16-Core)
Die size208 mm2
Maximum core temperature95 °Cof 110 (Core Ultra 9 185H)
64 bit support+
Windows 11 compatibility+
Unlocked multiplierNo

Compatibility

Information on Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H compatibility with other computer components and devices: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Number of CPUs in a configuration1of 8 (Xeon Platinum 8454H)
SocketFP7
Power consumption (TDP)45 Wattof 400 (Xeon Platinum 9282)

Technologies and extensions

Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsDDR5-4800/LPDDR5-6400 RAM (incl. ECC), PCIe 4, PRO, MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4A, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, BMI2, ABM, FMA, ADX, SMEP, SMAP, SMT, CPB, AES-NI, RDRAND, RDSEED, SHA, SME
AES-NI+
FMA+
AVX+

Virtualization technologies

Supported virtual machine optimization technologies. Some are specific to Intel only, some to AMD.

AMD-V+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR5

Graphics specifications

General parameters of a GPU integrated into Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H.

Integrated graphics cardAMD Radeon 680M

Peripherals

Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.

PCIe version4.0of 5 (Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX)
PCI Express lanes20of 128 (EPYC 9654)

Benchmark performance

Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H 14.51

Passmark

Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.

Benchmark coverage: 68%

Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H 22447

GeekBench 5 Single-Core

GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.

Benchmark coverage: 42%

Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H 1779

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.

Benchmark coverage: 42%

Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H 8392

Gaming performance

Closest competitors

Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H's performance relative to its closest rivals among notebook CPUs.


Apple M2 Max 101.17
Apple M2 Pro 100.28
Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H 100

Intel equivalent

According to our data, the closest Intel alternative to Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H is Core i5-12600H, which is faster by 1% and higher by 13 positions in our ranking.

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Here are some closest Intel rivals to Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H:

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Recommended GPUs

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