AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme vs AMD Ryzen 7 8840U

Ryzen Z1 Extreme vs Ryzen 7 8840U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 8840U performs better than the Ryzen Z1 Extreme. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen Z1 Extreme in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. In terms of clock speed, the Ryzen Z1 Extreme and Ryzen 7 8840U are identical in this regard. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache and 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 Z1 Extreme has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.