Ryzen Z1 Beats Apple M1 in Cinebench R23 Benchmarks

The Zen 4-powered processors do wonders for portable gaming devices like the ROG Ally, the main competitor to the Steam Deck. AMD’s Ryzen Z1 series isn’t far from being one of the greatest CPUs. The Ryzen Z1 series can compete with some desktop CPUs even though they only need 30W of power, provided that the latter is a few generations old.

AMD’s Ryzen Z1 Extreme CPU offers the best performance for these devices. The Ryzen Z1 Extreme, which uses the most recent Zen 4 processors, boasts eight cores, 16 threads, and reasonable clock rates. The basic clock speed of the octa-core processor is 3.3 GHz, while the boost clock may reach 5.1 GHz. But Ryzen Z1 Extreme’s RDNA 3-based integrated graphics are mostly to blame for the chip’s superior graphics performance. At 2.7 GHz, it has 12 RDNA 3 processing units.

Twitter user Mochamad Farido Fanani benchmarked the Ryzen Z1 Extreme with Cinebench R23, offering a standard for comparison to show how much processing power is inside the little Zen 4 CPU, while other ROG Ally owners are busy gaming. With the ROG ally, the Ryzen Z1 Extreme has access to 16GB (2x8GB) of LPDDR5-6400 RAM.

The Ryzen Z1 Extreme outperformed the Core i5-10600K in single- and multi-core performance by 32% and 17%, respectively. The Ryzen Z1 Extreme is a 30W CPU that is purportedly running at 15W, but the Core i5-10600K is a 125W processor. On the one hand, this is an incredible effort. That TDP delta is rather large. On the other side, the Ryzen Z1 Extreme does lose some points because the Core i5-10600K is a three-year-old processor.

It seems sense that a more recent model, such the Core i5-13600K, cannot compete with the Ryzen Z1 Extreme. The margins were pitifully bad. 20% better single-core performance and 113% faster multi-core performance were recorded by the Core i5-13600K.

According to Anandtech’s evaluation of the Mac Mini, the Ryzen Z1 Extreme beat the Apple M1. In terms of single-core performance and multi-core performance, the Zen 4 processor outscored the Apple M1 by 10% and 38%, respectively. Additionally, the single-core performance of the Ryzen Z1 Extreme was 3% quicker than the M2 Max (MacBook Pro 2023) was. But in the multi-core benchmark, the M2 Max excelled, outperforming the Ryzen Z1 Extreme by 37%.

AMD’s Ryzen Z1 family of high-performance CPUs for portable gaming consoles are exclusively available from Asus for the time being. The processor’s maximal capacity is yet unknown. It will be fascinating to see whether other producers can get higher performance from the Ryzen Z1 series.

Source:Tomshardware