Intel Core Ultra 7 356H vs AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme

We compared two laptop CPUs: the 1.9 GHz Intel Core Ultra 7 356H with 16-cores against the 3.3 GHz AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme with 8-cores. On this page, you'll find out which processor has better performance in benchmarks, games and other useful information.

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 Extreme and 356H
Advantages of Intel Core Ultra 7 356H
  • Newer - released 2 years and 9 months later
  • More modern manufacturing process – 2 versus 4 nanometers
  • Has 8 more physical cores
  • Newer PCI Express version – 5.0
  • 10% faster in a single-core Geekbench v6 test - 2768 vs 2524 points
Advantages of AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme
  • Supports up to 256 GB DDR5-5600 RAM
  • More powerful Radeon 780M integrated graphics: 4.1 vs 2.5 TFLOPS
  • 9% higher Turbo Boost frequency (5.1 GHz vs 4.7 GHz)

Test in Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs across various tasks

Cinebench

Reputable cross-platform benchmark for high-performance processors
Cinebench 2024 (Single)
Cinebench 2024 (Multi)
Cinebench 2026 (Multi) 4053 -
Cinebench Scores (#122nd place)

GeekBench v6

The new version of this benchmark emulates common operations often used in real-world apps
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
File compression 1200 MB/sec 1120 MB/sec
Clang compilation 119.5 Klines/sec 90.7 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 241.3 pages/sec 214.1 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 421.6 Mpixels/sec 346.1 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 295.8 pages/sec 271.3 pages/sec
Background blur 60.7 images/sec 52.2 images/sec
Photo processing 117.9 images/sec 93.4 images/sec
Ray tracing 22.9 Mpixels/sec 20.6 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1], [2]

PassMark

Synthetic test that focuses on raw computational performance for low-level functions
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
Integer math 83 GOps/sec 89.2 GOps/sec
Floating point math 102.9 GOps/sec 52.6 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 325M Primes/sec 73M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 41.4M Strings/sec 34.8M Strings/sec
Data encryption 26.5 GBytes/sec 17.6 GBytes/sec
Data compression 339.3 MBytes/sec 291.2 MBytes/sec
Physics 2860 Frames/sec 1078 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 28.3B Matrices/sec 21.5B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4] – 176 & 1219 samples

Blender

3D rendering test that measures CPU performance in 3D modeling tasks (uses all cores)
Blender CPU
231.19

Performance Per Watt

Shows the score you get per each watt of PL1 TDP
Cinebench 2024 / Watt 45.7 PPW 24.4 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 636.6 PPW 374.1 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 1364.6 PPW 820.1 PPW
Blender / Watt 9.25 PPW 5.89 PPW
These are rough calculations, as most CPUs surpass PL1 TDP wattage even in multicore workloads.

Specifications

Full technical specification of Intel Core Ultra 7 356H and AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme

General

Vendor Intel Amd
Released January 5, 2026 April 25, 2023
Type Laptop Laptop
Instruction Set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Panther Lake Zen 4 (Phoenix)
Model number 356H -
Integrated GPU Xe3 Graphics (4-Core) Radeon 780M
Rival Equivalent - AMD Ryzen AI 7 450 -
Successor - - AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme
Intel CPU rating (#55th place)
AMD Ryzen CPU ranking (#79th place)

CPU

Performance Cores
P-Cores 4 8
P-Threads 4 16
Base Frequency (P) 1.9 GHz 3.3 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) 4.7 GHz 5.1 GHz
Efficient Cores
E-Cores 12 -
E-Threads 12 -
Base Frequency (E) 1.5 GHz -
Turbo Boost Frequency (E) 3.5 GHz -
Total
Total Cores 16 8
Total Threads 16 16
Bus Frequency 100 MHz 100 MHz
Multiplier 19x 33x
L1 Cache 192K (per core) 64K (per core)
L2 Cache 2560K (per core) 1MB (per core)
L3 Cache 18MB (shared) 16MB (shared)
Unlocked Multiplier No No

Package

Transistors - 25 billions
Fabrication Process 2 nm 4 nm
TDP (PL1) 15-25 W (configurable) 9-30 W (configurable)
Max. Boost TDP (PL2) 80 W -
Socket FCBGA2540 FP8
Peak Temperature 100°C 100°C
Laptop processors ranking (67th and 126th place)

iGPU

Integrated Graphics Intel Xe3 Graphics (4-Core) Radeon 780M
GPU Base Clock 300 MHz 800 MHz
GPU Boost Clock 2450 MHz 2700 MHz
Shading Units 512 768
TMUs 32 48
ROPs 16 32
Execution Units 4 12
TGP 25 W 15 W
iGPU FLOPS
2.5 TFLOPS
4.1 TFLOPS

Memory Support

Memory Types - LPDDR5X-8533
- DDR5-7200
- DDR5-5600
- LPDDR5x-7500
Max. Memory Size 128 GB 256 GB
Memory Channels 2 2
Max. Memory Bandwidth 115.2 GB/s -
ECC Support No Yes

Misc

Official Site Intel Core Ultra 7 356H official page AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme official page
PCI Express Version 5.0 4.0
PCI Express Lanes 20 20

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