Ryzen 9 6900HS vs Xeon Silver 4116

Place in the ranking	821	474
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	5.54	no data
Market segment	Server	Laptop
Series	Intel Xeon Silver	no data
Power efficiency	10.32	40.15
Architecture codename	Skylake (server) (2017−2019)	Rembrandt-H (Zen 3+) (2022)
Release date	11 July 2017 (7 years ago)	January 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$1,002	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance per price, higher is better.

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Detailed specifications

Xeon Silver 4116 and Ryzen 9 6900HS basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of CPU speed, though for more precise assessment you have to consider their test results.

Physical cores	12 (Dodeca-Core)	8 (Octa-Core)
Threads	24	16
Base clock speed	2.1 GHz	3.3 GHz
Boost clock speed	3 GHz	4.9 GHz
Multiplier	21	no data
L1 cache	768 KB	64K (per core)
L2 cache	12 MB	512K (per core)
L3 cache	16.5 MB (shared)	16 MB (shared)
Chip lithography	14 nm	6 nm
Die size	no data	208 mm²
Maximum core temperature	76 °C	95 °C
Number of transistors	8,000 million	no data
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	+	+

Compatibility

Information on Xeon Silver 4116 and Ryzen 9 6900HS compatibility with other computer components: 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 configuration	2 (Multiprocessor)	1
Socket	FCLGA3647	FP7
Power consumption (TDP)	85 Watt	35 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Xeon Silver 4116 and Ryzen 9 6900HS. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	Intel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX, Intel® AVX2, Intel® AVX-512	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	+	+
vPro	+	no data
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)	+	no data
Speed Shift	+	no data
Turbo Boost Technology	2.0	no data
Hyper-Threading Technology	+	no data
TSX	+	-
Turbo Boost Max 3.0	-	no data
Precision Boost 2	no data	+

Security technologies

Xeon Silver 4116 and Ryzen 9 6900HS technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT	+	no data
EDB	+	no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Xeon Silver 4116 and Ryzen 9 6900HS are enumerated here.

AMD-V	-	+
VT-d	+	no data
VT-x	+	no data
EPT	+	no data

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Xeon Silver 4116 and Ryzen 9 6900HS. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types	DDR4-2400	DDR5
Maximum memory size	768 GB	no data
Max memory channels	6	no data
Maximum memory bandwidth	115.212 GB/s	no data
ECC memory support	+	-

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card

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AMD Radeon 680M

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Xeon Silver 4116 and Ryzen 9 6900HS.

PCIe version	3.0	4.0
PCI Express lanes	48	20

Synthetic benchmark performance

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score 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.

Xeon Silver 4116 9.27

Ryzen 9 6900HS 14.85
+60.2%

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.

Xeon Silver 4116 14723

Ryzen 9 6900HS 23585
+60.2%

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.

Xeon Silver 4116 868

Ryzen 9 6900HS 1853
+113%

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.

Xeon Silver 4116 5676

Ryzen 9 6900HS 8798
+55%

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	9.27	14.85
Physical cores	12	8
Threads	24	16
Chip lithography	14 nm	6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	85 Watt	35 Watt

Xeon Silver 4116 has 50% more physical cores and 50% more threads.

Ryzen 9 6900HS, on the other hand, has a 60.2% higher aggregate performance score, a 133.3% more advanced lithography process, and 142.9% lower power consumption.

The Ryzen 9 6900HS is our recommended choice as it beats the Xeon Silver 4116 in performance tests.

Be aware that Xeon Silver 4116 is a server/workstation processor while Ryzen 9 6900HS is a notebook one.

Should you still have questions on choice between Xeon Silver 4116 and Ryzen 9 6900HS, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.