AMD Ryzen Z2 A vs AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme processor comparison: performance score, cores and clock speeds, cache, TDP, integrated graphics and NPU. The better value in each row is highlighted in green.
Summary
AMD Ryzen Z2 A offers a lower TDP (15 W vs 28 W). AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme offers more cores (8 vs 4), more threads (16 vs 8), a higher clock speed (5.0 GHz vs 3.8 GHz), more L3 cache (16 MB vs 4 MB), and a smaller manufacturing process (4 nm vs 7 nm).
Performance score
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Key specs
Cores & Threads4/8
Cores & Threads8/16
Turbo3.8 GHz
Turbo5.0 GHz
L3 cache4 MB
L3 cache16 MB
TDP15 W
TDP28 W
iGPUAMD Radeon Graphics
iGPUAMD Radeon 890M
General
SeriesRyzen Z
SeriesRyzen Z
CodenameVan Gogh
CodenameStrix Point
CPU architectureZen 2
CPU architectureZen 5, Zen 5c
FoundryTSMC
FoundryTSMC
Process node7 nm
Process node4 nm
Instruction setx86-64
Instruction setx86-64
Release dateJune 8, 2025
Release dateJanuary 6, 2025
Cores and clocks
Cores & Threads4/8
Cores & Threads8/16
4× Zen 2
- Turbo clock
- 3.8 GHz
- Base clock
- 2.8 GHz
3× Zen 5
- Turbo clock
- 5.0 GHz
- Base clock
- 2.0 GHz
5× Zen 5c
- Turbo clock
- 3.3 GHz
- Base clock
- 2.0 GHz
Cache
L3 cache4 MB
L3 cache16 MB
L2 cache2 MB
L2 cache8 MB
L1 cache256 KB
L1 cache640 KB
TDP
TDP15 W
TDP28 W
cTDP6 - 20 W
cTDP15 - 35 W
Max temperature95 °C
Max temperature100 °C
Connectivity
Memory supportLPDDR5-5500
Memory supportN/A
Memory channels2
Memory channelsN/A
PCIe version3.0
PCIe version4.0
PCIe lanes4
PCIe lanes16
Graphics
ModelAMD Radeon Graphics
ModelAMD Radeon 890M
iGPU architectureRDNA 2
iGPU architectureRDNA 3.5
Compute units8
Compute units16
Clock1800 MHz
Clock2900 MHz
AI
No NPU
No NPU