AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme vs Intel Core i7-12700T

Ryzen Z1 Extreme vs Core i7-12700T comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen Z1 Extreme beats the Core i7-12700T in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-12700T has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-12700T has significantly more cores than the Ryzen Z1 Extreme. Indeed, the Core i7-12700T has 12 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen Z1 Extreme. It also has more threads than the Ryzen Z1 Extreme. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen Z1 Extreme has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12700T. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-12700T has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen Z1 Extreme. The Core i7-12700T 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 Z1 Extreme has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.