AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX vs AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Mobile 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

6264 points

6328 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7696 points

7752 points

0.73% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5820 points

5895 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5710 points

5789 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6544 points

0.20% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

6531 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

175.52 points

3% slightly higher Blender score

169.56 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

14363 points

14960 points

4% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7587 points

9595 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1845 points

2167 points

17% 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

3.3 GHz

3.30 GHz

0.03% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz

5.1 GHz

10% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W

28 W

60% 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

16 MiB

Identical

16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

239th of 1,089

234th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Mobile

Ryzen Z1

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Ryzen 9 5900HX vs Ryzen Z1 Extreme specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen Z1 Extreme performs better than the Ryzen 9 5900HX. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 5900HX in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores 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 Ryzen 9 5900HX. Also, the Ryzen Z1 Extreme has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen Z1 Extreme has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 5900HX. 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 5900HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.