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Intel Core Ultra 5 135H vs AMD Ryzen Z1

53 out of 100
Intel Core Ultra 5 135H
VS
52 out of 100
AMD Ryzen Z1
Intel Core Ultra 5 135H
AMD Ryzen Z1

We compared two laptop CPUs: the 1.7 GHz Intel Core Ultra 5 135H with 14-cores against the 3.2 GHz AMD Ryzen Z1 with 6-cores. On this page, you'll find out which processor has better performance in benchmarks, games and other useful information.

  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Performance
  4. Specs
  5. Comments

Review

General overview and comparison of the processors
Single-Core Performance
Performance in single-threaded apps and benchmarks
Multi-Core Performance
Measure performance when all cores are involved
Power Efficiency
The efficiency score of power consumption
Integrated Graphics
iGPU capabilities for gaming and 3D-intensive tasks
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Key Differences

What are the key differences between Z1 and 135H
Advantages of Intel Core Ultra 5 135H
  • More powerful Arc Graphics (8-Cores) integrated graphics: 4.5 vs 1.3 TFLOPS
  • Has 8 more physical cores
  • Newer PCI Express version – 5.0
  • Newer - released 8 months later
  • More than 10° C higher critical temperature
Advantages of AMD Ryzen Z1
  • Supports up to 256 GB DDR5-5600 RAM
  • More modern manufacturing process – 4 versus 7 nanometers
  • 7% higher Turbo Boost frequency (4.9 GHz vs 4.6 GHz)

Test in Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs across various tasks
CPU:
Core Ultra 5 135H
vs
Ryzen Z1

Cinebench

Reputable cross-platform benchmark for high-performance processors
Cinebench 2024 (Single)
Cinebench 2024 (Multi)
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GeekBench v6

The new version of this benchmark emulates common operations often used in real-world apps
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Core Ultra 5 135H
2194
Ryzen Z1 +4%
2290
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Core Ultra 5 135H +19%
10516
Ryzen Z1
8874
File compression 1130 MB/sec 1008.9 MB/sec
Clang compilation 86.4 Klines/sec 59.6 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 290.2 pages/sec 184.9 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 345.4 Mpixels/sec 208.1 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 247 pages/sec 249.2 pages/sec
Background blur 48.6 images/sec 42.3 images/sec
Photo processing 110 images/sec 74.7 images/sec
Ray tracing 17.8 Mpixels/sec 12.9 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1], [2] – 22 samples

PassMark

Synthetic test that focuses on raw computational performance for low-level functions
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Core Ultra 5 135H
3473
Ryzen Z1 +3%
3577
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
Core Ultra 5 135H +20%
21948
Ryzen Z1
18258
Integer math 72.8 GOps/sec 58 GOps/sec
Floating point math 54 GOps/sec 35.4 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 89M Primes/sec 65M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 28.1M Strings/sec 24.5M Strings/sec
Data encryption 14.7 GBytes/sec 12.2 GBytes/sec
Data compression 246 MBytes/sec 206.5 MBytes/sec
Physics 1441 Frames/sec 925 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 14.6B Matrices/sec 15.5B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4] – 448 & 65 samples

Blender

3D rendering test that measures CPU performance in 3D modeling tasks (uses all cores)
Blender CPU

Performance Per Watt

Shows the score you get per each watt of PL1 TDP
Cinebench 2024 / Watt 28.2 PPW 17.8 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 375.6 PPW 295.8 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 783.9 PPW 608.6 PPW
Blender / Watt 2.44 PPW -
These are rough calculations, as most CPUs surpass PL1 TDP wattage even in multicore workloads.

Specifications

Full technical specification of Intel Core Ultra 5 135H and AMD Ryzen Z1

General

Vendor Intel Amd
Released December 14, 2023 April 25, 2023
Type Laptop Laptop
Instruction Set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Meteor Lake Zen 4 (Phoenix)
Model number 135H -
Integrated GPU Arc Graphics (8-Cores) Radeon 740M
Rival Equivalent - AMD Ryzen 5 8645HS -
Successor - Intel Core Ultra 5 235H -
Intel CPU rating (#131st place)
AMD Ryzen CPU ranking (#99th place)

CPU

Performance Cores
P-Cores 4 6
P-Threads 8 12
Base Frequency (P) 1.7 GHz 3.2 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) 4.6 GHz 4.9 GHz
Efficient Cores
E-Cores 10 -
E-Threads 10 -
Base Frequency (E) 1.2 GHz -
Turbo Boost Frequency (E) 3.6 GHz -
Total
Total Cores 14 6
Total Threads 18 12
Bus Frequency 100 MHz 100 MHz
Multiplier 17x 32x
L1 Cache 112K (per core) 64K (per core)
L2 Cache 2MB (per core) 1MB (per core)
L3 Cache 18MB (shared) 16MB (shared)
Unlocked Multiplier No No

Package

Transistors - 25 billions
Fabrication Process 7 nm 4 nm
TDP (PL1) 20-28 W (configurable) 9-30 W (configurable)
Max. Boost TDP (PL2) 115 W -
Socket FCBGA-2049 FP7
Peak Temperature 110°C 100°C
Laptop processors ranking (168th and 179th place)

iGPU

Integrated Graphics Arc Graphics (8-Cores) Radeon 740M
GPU Base Clock 300 MHz 800 MHz
GPU Boost Clock 2200 MHz 2500 MHz
Shading Units 1024 256
TMUs 64 16
ROPs 32 8
Execution Units 128 4
TGP 28 W 15 W
iGPU FLOPS
Core Ultra 5 135H +246%
4.5 TFLOPS
Ryzen Z1
1.3 TFLOPS
More info: Radeon 740M compared to Arc iGPU (8-Cores)

Memory Support

Memory Types - LPDDR5-7467
- LPDDR5x-7467
- DDR5-5600		 - DDR5-5600
- LPDDR5x-7500
Max. Memory Size 96 GB 256 GB
Memory Channels 2 2
Max. Memory Bandwidth 89.6 GB/s -
ECC Support No Yes

Misc

Official Site Intel Core Ultra 5 135H official page AMD Ryzen Z1 official page
PCI Express Version 5.0 4.0
PCI Express Lanes 28 20

Cast your vote

Choose between two processors
11 (73.3%)
4 (26.7%)
Total votes: 15

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Comments

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