AMD has an incredible APU on its hands with the Ryzen Z1 Extreme APU, which can compete and beat Intel's previous-gen flagship Core i9-9900K while just sipping power in comparison. We're talking about AMD's new APU using just 15W of power, while Intel's Core i9 CPU uses 95W... and AMD comes out on top.
The new AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme APU rocks 8 cores and 16 threads of Zen 4 processing power, with 16MB of L3 cache, 8MB of L2 cache, and a base CPU clock of 3.3GHz, while boost CPU clocks can go north of 5.0GHz. On the GPU side of things, the Ryzen Z1 Extreme APU rocks a Radeon 780M which has 12 RDNA 3-based compute units, with a total of 768 cores clocking at up to 2.7GHz. As for the TDP, AMD says it has just 15-28W TDP.
AMD made some handheld-specific power optimisations to its Ryzen Z1 APU, something that we're seeing really shine through with just 15W of power consumed, up against Intel's former flagship Core i9-9900K processor that uses 95W of power. That's quite the difference, yet AMD can keep up for a smidgen of the power envelope.
ASUS has used the AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme APU inside of its ROG Ally handheld console, but now Twitter user Mochamad Farido Fanani has used the APU for some CInebench R23 benchmarks and the results are impressive to say the least.
