Intel Xeon W-2155 vs AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme

Xeon W-2155 vs Ryzen Z1 Extreme benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon W-2155 beats the Ryzen Z1 Extreme in overall performance. 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 W-2155 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. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen Z1 Extreme has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon W-2155. Also, the Ryzen Z1 Extreme has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen Z1 Extreme outputs less heat than Xeon W-2155 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 W-2155 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.