AMD Ryzen Z1 vs AMD Ryzen 9 9900X

Ryzen Z1 vs Ryzen 9 9900X benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 9900X beats the Ryzen Z1 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen Z1 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 9900X has significantly more cores than the Ryzen Z1. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 9900X has 12 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen Z1. It also has more threads than the Ryzen Z1. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 9900X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen Z1. Also, the Ryzen 9 9900X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 9900X has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen Z1. The Ryzen 9 9900X also has significantly more 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 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.