Intel Core i7-10700 vs AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme

Compare Intel 10th Generation Core i7 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen Z1 8 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

6267 points

6328 points

0.97% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7929 points

2% slightly better gaming score

7752 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5718 points

5895 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5568 points

5789 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6944 points

6% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

6531 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

143.42 points

169.56 points

18% slightly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

8532 points

14960 points

75% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7115 points

9595 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1625 points

2167 points

33% 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

2.9 GHz

3.30 GHz

13% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.8 GHz

5.1 GHz

6% 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

2 MiB

8 MiB

300% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

Identical

16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

238th of 1,089

234th of 1,089

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i7

Ryzen Z1

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2933

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-10700 vs Ryzen Z1 Extreme benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen Z1 Extreme is faster than the Core i7-10700. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-10700 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen Z1 Extreme has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-10700. Also, the Ryzen Z1 Extreme has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen Z1 Extreme has more L2 cache than the Core i7-10700. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i7-10700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.