AMD Ryzen 7 3700X vs AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 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

6345 points

0.27% slightly better overall score

6328 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7643 points

7752 points

1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5911 points

0.27% slightly better multitasking score

5895 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5785 points

5789 points

0.07% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6052 points

6531 points

7% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

180.28 points

6% slightly higher Blender score

169.56 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8090 points

9595 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1674 points

2167 points

29% 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

9% slightly higher clock speed

3.30 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz

5.1 GHz

15% 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

4 MiB

8 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

233rd of 1,089

234th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop

Ryzen Z1

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 7 3700X vs Ryzen Z1 Extreme benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen Z1 Extreme is faster than the Ryzen 7 3700X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 3700X in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 3700X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen Z1 Extreme. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen Z1 Extreme has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 3700X. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 3700X has significantly 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 Ryzen 7 3700X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.