Intel Xeon Silver 4114 vs AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme

Xeon Silver 4114 vs Ryzen Z1 Extreme specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon Silver 4114 performs better than the Ryzen Z1 Extreme. Despite this, the Ryzen Z1 Extreme has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon Silver 4114 has slightly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Ryzen Z1 Extreme that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen Z1 Extreme. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen Z1 Extreme has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon Silver 4114. Also, the Ryzen Z1 Extreme has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen Z1 Extreme outputs less heat than Xeon Silver 4114 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 Xeon Silver 4114 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.