Intel Core i9-11950H vs AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme

Compare Intel 11th Generation Core i9 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

6449 points

1% slightly better overall score

6328 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8487 points

9% slightly better gaming score

7752 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5818 points

5895 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5677 points

5789 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

153.40 points

169.56 points

10% slightly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

13113 points

14960 points

14% slightly higher Cinebench R23 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

2.6 GHz

3.30 GHz

26% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz

5.1 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W

28 W

60% significantly lower TDP

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

24 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

234th of 1,118

245th of 1,118

Family

The product line

11th Generation Core i9

Ryzen Z1

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 May

Is Unlocked

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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i9-11950H vs Ryzen Z1 Extreme comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-11950H is faster than the Ryzen Z1 Extreme. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen Z1 Extreme in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count 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 i9-11950H. Also, the Ryzen Z1 Extreme has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen Z1 Extreme outputs less heat than Core i9-11950H thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i9-11950H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.