Ryzen Z2 A: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
Ryzen Z2 A provides acceptable benchmark performance at 5.85% of a leader's which is a 96-core Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9995WX.
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Summary
AMD started Ryzen Z2 A sales 6 January 2025. This is a Renoir architecture notebook processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 4 cores and 8 threads, and is based on 6 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 3800 MHz and a locked multiplier.
Compatibility-wise, this is a processor with a TDP of 28 Watt.
Primary details
Ryzen Z2 A processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.
| Place in the ranking | 1403 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Power efficiency | 8.58 | of 100.00 (Apple M4 (8 cores)) |
| Designer | AMD | |
| Architecture codename | Renoir (2020−2025) | |
| Release date | 6 January 2025 (1 year ago) |
Detailed specifications
Basic microprocessor parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters can generally indicate CPU performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.
| Physical cores | 4 (Quad-Core) | |
| Threads | 8 | |
| Base clock speed | 2.8 GHz | of 4.7 GHz (Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9945WX) |
| Boost clock speed | 3.8 GHz | of 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS) |
| L1 cache | 256 KB | of 96 KB (Xeon 6990E+) |
| L2 cache | 2 MB | of 2 MB (Xeon 6980P) |
| L3 cache | 8 MB | of 1152 MB (EPYC 9684X) |
| Chip lithography | 6 nm | of 1.8 nm (Core Ultra 7 366H) |
| 64 bit support | + |
Compatibility
Information on Ryzen Z2 A compatibility with other computer components and devices: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.
| Power consumption (TDP) | 28 Watt | of 500 Watt (EPYC 9755) |
Technologies and extensions
Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Ryzen Z2 A. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
| Instruction set extensions | XFR, FMA3, SSE 4.2, AVX2, SMT |
Graphics specifications
General parameters of a GPU integrated into Ryzen Z2 A.
| Integrated graphics card | AMD Radeon Steam Deck 8CU (200 - 1800 MHz) |
Benchmark performance
Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Ryzen Z2 A. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark performance rating.
Passmark
Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance. Other than that, Passmark measures multi-core performance.
Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core
Cinebench Release 15 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R15 which uses all the processor threads.
Send your test results of Ryzen Z2 A.
Intel equivalent
According to our data, the closest Intel alternative to Ryzen Z2 A is Core i7-8850H, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 3 positions in our ranking.
Here are some closest Intel rivals to Ryzen Z2 A:
Similar processors
Here is our recommendation of several processors that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended GPUs
People consider these graphics cards to be good for Ryzen Z2 A, according to our PC configuration statistics.
These are the fastest graphics cards for Ryzen Z2 A in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 111 configurations using Ryzen Z2 A in our database.
