AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS vs AMD Ryzen Z1

Ryzen 9 5900HS vs Ryzen Z1 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 5900HS beats the Ryzen Z1 in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen Z1 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 5900HS has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen Z1 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen Z1. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen Z1 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 5900HS. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen Z1 has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 5900HS. 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 Ryzen 9 5900HS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.