AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme vs Intel Core i7-14700T

Ryzen Z1 Extreme vs Core i7-14700T benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-14700T beats the Ryzen Z1 Extreme in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen Z1 Extreme in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-14700T has significantly more cores with 20 cores compared to the Ryzen Z1 Extreme that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen Z1 Extreme. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen Z1 Extreme has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-14700T. In terms of cache, the Core i7-14700T has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen Z1 Extreme. The Core i7-14700T also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen Z1 Extreme has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.