Intel Core i9-10900 vs AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme

Core i9-10900 vs Ryzen Z1 Extreme comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-10900 beats the Ryzen Z1 Extreme in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen Z1 Extreme has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-10900 has slightly more cores than the Ryzen Z1 Extreme. Indeed, the Core i9-10900 has 10 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen Z1 Extreme. It also has more threads than the Ryzen Z1 Extreme. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen Z1 Extreme has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-10900. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen Z1 Extreme has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i9-10900. Despite this, the Core i9-10900 has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen Z1 Extreme.

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 i9-10900 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.