AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme vs Intel Core Ultra 7 258V

Compare AMD Ryzen Z1 8 core CPU vs Intel Core Ultra (Series 2) 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

6328 points
8% slightly better overall score
5827 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7752 points
9364 points
20% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5895 points
23% slightly better multitasking score
4788 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5789 points
25% slightly better heavy workload score
4598 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

169.56 points
33% slightly higher Blender score
126.58 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9595 points
9679 points
0.88% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2167 points
2417 points
11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
Identical
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
100% significantly more threads
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.30 GHz
50% significantly higher clock speed
2.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.1 GHz
6% slightly higher turbo speed
4.8 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB
14 MiB
75% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
33% slightly more L3 cache
12 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

234th of 1,089
265th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen Z1
Core Ultra (Series 2)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
2024 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR5-8533

Ryzen Z1 Extreme vs Core Ultra 7 258V specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core Ultra 7 258V 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 these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Ryzen Z1 Extreme has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen Z1 Extreme has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core Ultra 7 258V. Also, the Ryzen Z1 Extreme has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core Ultra 7 258V has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen Z1 Extreme. Despite this, the Ryzen Z1 Extreme has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core Ultra 7 258V.

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.

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