AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme vs AMD Ryzen 9 8945H

Compare AMD Ryzen Z1 8 core CPU vs AMD 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
8895 points
40% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7752 points
10846 points
39% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5895 points
8278 points
40% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5789 points
8127 points
40% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

169.56 points
224.72 points
32% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
Identical
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
Identical
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.30 GHz
4.00 GHz
21% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB
Identical
8 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
Identical
16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

234th of 1,089
115th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen Z1
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Ryzen Z1 Extreme vs Ryzen 9 8945H benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 8945H is faster than the Ryzen Z1 Extreme. 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 and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 8945H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen Z1 Extreme. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical 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.

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