The Performance of the Core Ultra 7 and Ryzen Z1 Extreme GPUs: A Comparative Analysis

With the recent release of the Ryzen Z1 Extreme, many enthusiasts are eager to see how it stacks up against other high-performance GPUs on the market. In this article, we will delve into a comparative analysis of the Core Ultra 7 and Ryzen Z1 Extreme GPUs, specifically focusing on their performance in synthetic benchmarks and real-world gaming scenarios.

The Ryzen Z1 Extreme is equipped with an impressive 8-core Ultra CPU, which promises to deliver exceptional performance and power efficiency. However, when pitted against other high-end GPUs like the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090, it becomes clear that the Ryzen Z1 Extreme's 7-core Ultra GPU may not be enough to take on the competition. Nonetheless, we will examine both synthetic benchmarks and real-world gaming scenarios to determine how well the Core Ultra 7 holds its own against the Ryzen Z1 Extreme.

Synthetic Benchmarking: Time Spy 3D Mark

To begin our analysis, we ran a 3D Mark Time Spy benchmark on both GPUs, comparing their performance at different power levels. The results were quite striking, with the Ryzen Z1 Extreme's GPU posting a score of 275 on the Ultra setting and 3221 on the 7-core Ultra setting. In contrast, the Core Ultra 7 achieved a respectable 2939 on the Ultra setting and 4063 on the 7-core Ultra setting. These results suggest that the Core Ultra 7 is able to outperform the Ryzen Z1 Extreme in synthetic benchmarks, particularly at lower power levels.

Real-World Gaming Performance

Next, we moved on to real-world gaming performance, testing both GPUs in various games across multiple resolutions and power settings. The first game we tested was Shadow of the Tomb Raider, which ran smoothly at 1080p medium settings with an average frame rate of 49 FPS on the Ryzen Z1 Extreme's 25-watt TDP setting and 66 FPS on the Core Ultra 7's 25-watt TDP setting. While this may seem like a minor difference, it highlights the significant performance disparity between these two GPUs.

However, things took a turn for the better when we moved on to Forza Horizon 5. In this highly optimized game, the Ryzen Z1 Extreme's GPU delivered an average of 72 FPS at 1080p medium settings with a 25-watt TDP, while the Core Ultra 7 posted an average of 55 FPS. This marks a significant leap forward for the Core Ultra 7, which was struggling to keep pace with the Ryzen Z1 Extreme in this game.

The final two games we tested were Cyberpunk 2077 and Black Myth: Woonger. In the latter, the Ryzen Z1 Extreme's GPU took the lead, delivering an average of 37 FPS at 1080p medium settings with a 25-watt TDP, while the Core Ultra 7 trailed behind with an average of 34 FPS. However, in Cyberpunk 2077, the Core Ultra 7 managed to take the crown, posting an average of 51 FPS at 1080p medium settings with a 25-watt TDP, while the Ryzen Z1 Extreme delivered only 54 FPS.

Conclusion

While the Ryzen Z1 Extreme's GPU may not have taken the lead in every game we tested, it is clear that both GPUs are capable of delivering exceptional performance and power efficiency. The Core Ultra 7's 7-core Ultra GPU appears to be a significant upgrade over its predecessor, delivering better results in synthetic benchmarks and several real-world gaming scenarios.

As we continue to see more driver optimizations and advancements in technology, it will be exciting to see how these two GPUs hold up against future competitors. In the meantime, enthusiasts who want to experience the latest performance from both the Core Ultra 7 and Ryzen Z1 Extreme will have plenty of options for testing and evaluation.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey what's going on everybody it's ETA Prime back here again recently Intel released the new core Ultra Series 2 chips and I really wanted to put this up against the ryzen Z1 extreme so big reason here is because we are going to see handhelds powered by a very similar chip the one I have here is the core Ultra 7258 V and it's inside of the new Asus Zenbook S14 it actually puts down some really good performance and with this new series 2 core Ultra chip we've got a brand new IG GPU with xe2 cores and they do promise a big uplift when you compare it to the first generation core Ultras so I figured we could put these two chips up against each other because again like I mentioned we're going to see handhelds like the MSI claw ai8 and we're not sure if it's going to be using the exact same chip we're testing here but it will be pretty close I've got a lot to test in this video and before we get started I do want to mention that this video is sponsored by Ur 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keys for your new pc builds I'll leave a link in the description I've been doing a lot of testing with the Zenbook S14 I actually just posted a video if you're interested in checking that out I'll leave a link in the description one thing I really wanted to do here was go watt for watt when it comes to Performance so we're actually going to be testing at two different wattages 17 watt which is performance mode on the Rog Alx and 25 watt which is the turbo mode on the X and in order to get there I'm going to be using manual mode on the X here it's really easy to adjust the TDP here so we can just go right down to 17 Watt with no extra boost we can also go up to 25 watts with no extra boost on that TDP but it did take me a second to get everything working over on the new core Ultra laptop now Asus does have their my Asus Suite built in and we've got a few great performance profiles here but it's not 17 Watt and it's not 25 locked what I had to use was an old school method known as throttle stop so I've used this for years absolutely love it on these Intel chips and it does work with this core Ultra chip so getting right down to it when we compare these two CPUs definitely looks like the Z1 does have an advantage over there we've got eight cores 16 threads with a boost up to 5.1 on the new Intel Core Ultra 7 258 V eight cores eight threads they have taken a lot of those cores and threads out from the previous generation and we've only got a maximum boost up to 4.8 the GPU on the Z1 extreme is basically the same thing as the 7 ADM but they don't call it that in that Apu it's a radon rdna 3 based IG GPU with 12 compute units and it'll boost up to 2700 MHz on the core Ultra we've got the new Intel Arc 140v GPU and this has axe2 cores up to 1950 mahz but we do have much faster Ram over on the core Ultra and it's actually on package Ram so it's non upgradable it's actually on the chip itself and with the system I'm testing here I only have access to something with 32 gigs and it's running at 8,533 MHz as opposed to the 7500 MHz over on the Z1 extreme now with the test we're going to be running we're not going to max out the ram here the RAM amount here really isn't going to matter it's more about the speed itself the first thing I wanted to take a look at were some benchmarks and keep in mind we're going to be running two tests on each of these 17 Watt and 25 watt with geekbench 6 the Z1 extreme scored a 2,398 single core the new core Ultra 7 2,752 and if we take a look at that multicore the Z1 extreme is coming ahead but remember it's got eight cores and 16 threads with the core Ultra we're only working with eight cores and eight threads now taking the TDP up to 25 watts on both of these chips single core on the Z1 extreme jumped up to 2,482 and single core on that core Ultra basically stayed the same I mean we got a little bit of a boost there 2763 but now since we're pushing more power to this core Ultra it can keep the clocks up on all of those eight cores it actually brought that multicore up past the Z1 extreme out of 25 wat TDP not by much and I'm sure if we went up to 30 35 Watts with this that Z1 would probably beat this chip out just because it's got those extra threads but so far not looking bad here for the core Ultra 7 now we need to take a look at some GPU benchmarks and for this I just ran 3D marks time spy 17 watt TDP ryzen Z1 extreme total score here 275 on the core Ultra 7 3,29 now in the past with the first gen core Ultra we know that with these synthetic benchmarks it did bench out higher than the Z1 extreme but when it came to real world performance it didn't perform as well I mean it was way under what that Radeon igpu can do but I also tested this at a 25 watt TDP and now the Z1 extreme is up to 3,221 but the core Ultra broke 4,000 here with this Benchmark and seeing over 4,000 on an igpu with times SP is actually really impressive I'm sure in the future we're going to see much higher scores here but 4,163 not too bad so again these are synthetic benchmarks now it's time to see how this thing performs with real gaming first one we have here is shadow of the Tomb Raider and all of this footage is at 25 watts I did also run this at a 17 watt TDP so we'll take a look at what both of these did at those wattages straight off the bat definitely looks like they're trading blows here we're at 1080p medium and at the end of this Benchmark the Z1 extreme at a 25 wat TDP had an average of 49 the core Ultra 7 actually had an average of 66 this is a pretty big jump here it's looking pretty decent so far but I've got more games to test and remember I did also test this at a 17 wat TDP the Z1 extreme got an average of 43 FPS and the core Ultra 53 at 17 Watts next game on the list is Forza Horizon 5 this is one I always love to test on these igpus because it's very well optimized but going into this it was very evident that that Z1 extreme was coming way ahead now we could definitely even this out get better performance on both sides by adding some FSR or XS whatever you like to use here but at the end of this Benchmark the Z1 extreme had an average of 72 FPS and the core Ultra an average of 55 I mean this is a major jump here this is going from you know playable over 60 to under 60 25 wat TDP 1080p medium settings and at a 17 watt TDP with those same settings here that Z1 extreme still came ahead with an average of 59 FPS versus the core Ultra 39 FPS so that rdna A3 igpu is really kicking it up here with forsa Horizon 5 then I moved over to cyberpunk 2077 and results here for that core Ultra were pretty impressive when you consider that the first gen core Ultra really didn't do a great job with this 1080p medium 25 wat TDP on the Z1 extreme we had an average of 51 on the core Ultra an average of 54 and even taking it down to that 17 watt TDP the core Ultra still beat out the Z1 coming in with a 42 FPS average versus the ryzen Z1 40 FPS average so it's not by much but yeah it is coming ahead in cyberpunk right now and the final game I tested we just did a 25 watt TDP test because this is definitely a harder one black myth woong and at the end here Z1 took the crown with an average of 37 FPS versus that core ultra's 34 FPS so right now that core Ultra 7 258 V is trade and blows with the Z1 extreme personally I'm really excited to see what this new ark 140v can do in the future with some more driver optimizations and I know we said that with the original core Ultra but we did get major boost in performance on the MSI claw so I'm not sure if we're going to see something similar once we get some handhelds powered by these new core Ultra chips or not but either way I mean it's working out much better than I thought it would compared to the first gen core Ultra but that's going to wrap it up for this one keep an eye on the channel because I'll have at least one more video coming up with the core Ultra I want to test out a bunch of different Steam games on this at higher wattages just to see exactly what this thing can do and if there's any specific games you want to see running just let me know in the comments below but that's it for this one like always thanks for watchinghey what's going on everybody it's ETA Prime back here again recently Intel released the new core Ultra Series 2 chips and I really wanted to put this up against the ryzen Z1 extreme so big reason here is because we are going to see handhelds powered by a very similar chip the one I have here is the core Ultra 7258 V and it's inside of the new Asus Zenbook S14 it actually puts down some really good performance and with this new series 2 core Ultra chip we've got a brand new IG GPU with xe2 cores and they do promise a big uplift when you compare it to the first generation core Ultras so I figured we could put these two chips up against each other because again like I mentioned we're going to see handhelds like the MSI claw ai8 and we're not sure if it's going to be using the exact same chip we're testing here but it will be pretty close I've got a lot to test in this video and before we get started I do want to mention that this video is sponsored by Ur CD Keys I've been using this site for a long time they offer steam Keys up playay Ubisoft but the main thing I usually pick up over here are Windows 10 Pro OEM keys and right now if you use code ETA you can get 25% off bringing the price down to $17 for that key and keep in mind this will also work with Microsoft Office Products we'll use code ETA as you can see brought it down to that $17 price Mark personally I use PayPal just to have that security so we'll go ahead and check out they're going to email that code to you and now we can use that code to activate Windows 10 Pro I'm going to head over to my updates and security we're going to go to activation as you can see I've got Windows 10 Pro but it's not activated so I'm going to change product key I'm going to paste it in here choose next choose activate and windows is now activated we're ready to go they'll email your code once your payment is processed and that's basically it if you're interested in picking up cheap Windows 10 keys for your new pc builds I'll leave a link in the description I've been doing a lot of testing with the Zenbook S14 I actually just posted a video if you're interested in checking that out I'll leave a link in the description one thing I really wanted to do here was go watt for watt when it comes to Performance so we're actually going to be testing at two different wattages 17 watt which is performance mode on the Rog Alx and 25 watt which is the turbo mode on the X and in order to get there I'm going to be using manual mode on the X here it's really easy to adjust the TDP here so we can just go right down to 17 Watt with no extra boost we can also go up to 25 watts with no extra boost on that TDP but it did take me a second to get everything working over on the new core Ultra laptop now Asus does have their my Asus Suite built in and we've got a few great performance profiles here but it's not 17 Watt and it's not 25 locked what I had to use was an old school method known as throttle stop so I've used this for years absolutely love it on these Intel chips and it does work with this core Ultra chip so getting right down to it when we compare these two CPUs definitely looks like the Z1 does have an advantage over there we've got eight cores 16 threads with a boost up to 5.1 on the new Intel Core Ultra 7 258 V eight cores eight threads they have taken a lot of those cores and threads out from the previous generation and we've only got a maximum boost up to 4.8 the GPU on the Z1 extreme is basically the same thing as the 7 ADM but they don't call it that in that Apu it's a radon rdna 3 based IG GPU with 12 compute units and it'll boost up to 2700 MHz on the core Ultra we've got the new Intel Arc 140v GPU and this has axe2 cores up to 1950 mahz but we do have much faster Ram over on the core Ultra and it's actually on package Ram so it's non upgradable it's actually on the chip itself and with the system I'm testing here I only have access to something with 32 gigs and it's running at 8,533 MHz as opposed to the 7500 MHz over on the Z1 extreme now with the test we're going to be running we're not going to max out the ram here the RAM amount here really isn't going to matter it's more about the speed itself the first thing I wanted to take a look at were some benchmarks and keep in mind we're going to be running two tests on each of these 17 Watt and 25 watt with geekbench 6 the Z1 extreme scored a 2,398 single core the new core Ultra 7 2,752 and if we take a look at that multicore the Z1 extreme is coming ahead but remember it's got eight cores and 16 threads with the core Ultra we're only working with eight cores and eight threads now taking the TDP up to 25 watts on both of these chips single core on the Z1 extreme jumped up to 2,482 and single core on that core Ultra basically stayed the same I mean we got a little bit of a boost there 2763 but now since we're pushing more power to this core Ultra it can keep the clocks up on all of those eight cores it actually brought that multicore up past the Z1 extreme out of 25 wat TDP not by much and I'm sure if we went up to 30 35 Watts with this that Z1 would probably beat this chip out just because it's got those extra threads but so far not looking bad here for the core Ultra 7 now we need to take a look at some GPU benchmarks and for this I just ran 3D marks time spy 17 watt TDP ryzen Z1 extreme total score here 275 on the core Ultra 7 3,29 now in the past with the first gen core Ultra we know that with these synthetic benchmarks it did bench out higher than the Z1 extreme but when it came to real world performance it didn't perform as well I mean it was way under what that Radeon igpu can do but I also tested this at a 25 watt TDP and now the Z1 extreme is up to 3,221 but the core Ultra broke 4,000 here with this Benchmark and seeing over 4,000 on an igpu with times SP is actually really impressive I'm sure in the future we're going to see much higher scores here but 4,163 not too bad so again these are synthetic benchmarks now it's time to see how this thing performs with real gaming first one we have here is shadow of the Tomb Raider and all of this footage is at 25 watts I did also run this at a 17 watt TDP so we'll take a look at what both of these did at those wattages straight off the bat definitely looks like they're trading blows here we're at 1080p medium and at the end of this Benchmark the Z1 extreme at a 25 wat TDP had an average of 49 the core Ultra 7 actually had an average of 66 this is a pretty big jump here it's looking pretty decent so far but I've got more games to test and remember I did also test this at a 17 wat TDP the Z1 extreme got an average of 43 FPS and the core Ultra 53 at 17 Watts next game on the list is Forza Horizon 5 this is one I always love to test on these igpus because it's very well optimized but going into this it was very evident that that Z1 extreme was coming way ahead now we could definitely even this out get better performance on both sides by adding some FSR or XS whatever you like to use here but at the end of this Benchmark the Z1 extreme had an average of 72 FPS and the core Ultra an average of 55 I mean this is a major jump here this is going from you know playable over 60 to under 60 25 wat TDP 1080p medium settings and at a 17 watt TDP with those same settings here that Z1 extreme still came ahead with an average of 59 FPS versus the core Ultra 39 FPS so that rdna A3 igpu is really kicking it up here with forsa Horizon 5 then I moved over to cyberpunk 2077 and results here for that core Ultra were pretty impressive when you consider that the first gen core Ultra really didn't do a great job with this 1080p medium 25 wat TDP on the Z1 extreme we had an average of 51 on the core Ultra an average of 54 and even taking it down to that 17 watt TDP the core Ultra still beat out the Z1 coming in with a 42 FPS average versus the ryzen Z1 40 FPS average so it's not by much but yeah it is coming ahead in cyberpunk right now and the final game I tested we just did a 25 watt TDP test because this is definitely a harder one black myth woong and at the end here Z1 took the crown with an average of 37 FPS versus that core ultra's 34 FPS so right now that core Ultra 7 258 V is trade and blows with the Z1 extreme personally I'm really excited to see what this new ark 140v can do in the future with some more driver optimizations and I know we said that with the original core Ultra but we did get major boost in performance on the MSI claw so I'm not sure if we're going to see something similar once we get some handhelds powered by these new core Ultra chips or not but either way I mean it's working out much better than I thought it would compared to the first gen core Ultra but that's going to wrap it up for this one keep an eye on the channel because I'll have at least one more video coming up with the core Ultra I want to test out a bunch of different Steam games on this at higher wattages just to see exactly what this thing can do and if there's any specific games you want to see running just let me know in the comments below but that's it for this one like always thanks for watching\n"