AMD Ryzen 5 1600X vs AMD Ryzen Z2 Go

Ryzen 5 1600X vs Ryzen Z2 Go comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 1600X beats the Ryzen Z2 Go in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen Z2 Go has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 1600X has significantly more cores than the Ryzen Z2 Go. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 1600X has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen Z2 Go. It also has more threads than the Ryzen Z2 Go. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 1600X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen Z2 Go. Despite this, the Ryzen Z2 Go has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen Z2 Go outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 1600X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 1600X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen Z2 Go. The Ryzen 5 1600X also has significantly 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 Ryzen 5 1600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.