Intel Core i5-11400 vs AMD Ryzen Z1

Compare Intel 11th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen Z1 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5682 points

5874 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8370 points

1% slightly better gaming score

8265 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4847 points

5178 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4675 points

5019 points

7% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

144.07 points

7% slightly higher Blender score

133.44 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7262 points

8200 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1960 points

2231 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

12% slightly higher clock speed

3.20 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz

4.9 GHz

11% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

28 W

132% significantly lower TDP

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

6 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB

16 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

276th of 1,089

261st of 1,089

Family

The product line

11th Generation Core i5

Ryzen Z1

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-11400 vs Ryzen Z1 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen Z1 beats the Core i5-11400 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-11400 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-11400 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen Z1. In terms of cache, the Ryzen Z1 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-11400. The Ryzen Z1 also has slightly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i5-11400 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.