Athlon Gold 7220U vs Athlon Gold 3150U
Aggregate performance score
Athlon Gold 7220U outperforms Athlon Gold 3150U by a moderate 19% based on our aggregate benchmark results.
Primary details
Comparing Athlon Gold 3150U and Athlon Gold 7220U processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.
| Place in the ranking | 1743 | 1639 |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Market segment | Laptop | Laptop |
| Series | AMD Picasso (Ryzen 3000 APU) | Mendocino (Zen 2, Ryzen 7020) |
| Power efficiency | 15.84 | 18.80 |
| Architecture codename | Dali (Zen) (2020) | Mendocino (Zen 2) (2022−2023) |
| Release date | 6 January 2020 (4 years ago) | 20 September 2022 (2 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
Athlon Gold 3150U and Athlon Gold 7220U basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of CPU speed, though for more precise assessment you have to consider their test results.
| Physical cores | 2 (Dual-core) | 2 (Dual-core) |
| Threads | 4 | 4 |
| Base clock speed | 2.4 GHz | 2.4 GHz |
| Boost clock speed | 3.3 GHz | 3.7 GHz |
| Multiplier | 24 | no data |
| L1 cache | 192 KB | 64 KB (per core) |
| L2 cache | 1 MB | 512 KB (per core) |
| L3 cache | 4 MB | 4 MB (shared) |
| Chip lithography | 14 nm | 6 nm |
| Die size | no data | 100 mm2 |
| Maximum core temperature | 95 °C | no data |
| Number of transistors | 4500 Million | no data |
| 64 bit support | + | + |
| Windows 11 compatibility | + | no data |
Compatibility
Information on Athlon Gold 3150U and Athlon Gold 7220U compatibility with other computer components: 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.
| Number of CPUs in a configuration | no data | 1 |
| Socket | FP5 | FP6 |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 15 Watt | 15 Watt |
Technologies and extensions
Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Athlon Gold 3150U and Athlon Gold 7220U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
| Instruction set extensions | MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4A, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, BMI2, ABM, FMA, ADX, SMEP, SMAP, SMT, CPB, AES-NI, RDRAND, RDSEED, SHA, SME | XFR, FMA3, SSE 4.2, AVX2, SMT |
| AES-NI | + | + |
| FMA | + | - |
| AVX | + | + |
| Precision Boost 2 | + | no data |
Virtualization technologies
Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Athlon Gold 3150U and Athlon Gold 7220U are enumerated here.
| AMD-V | + | + |
Memory specs
Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Athlon Gold 3150U and Athlon Gold 7220U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.
| Supported memory types | DDR4 | DDR5 Dual-channel |
| Maximum memory size | 32 GB | no data |
| Max memory channels | 2 | no data |
| Maximum memory bandwidth | 38.397 GB/s | no data |
| ECC memory support | + | - |
Graphics specifications
General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.
| Integrated graphics card Compare | AMD Radeon RX Vega 3 ( - 1000 MHz) | AMD Radeon 610M ( - 1900 MHz) |
Peripherals
Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Athlon Gold 3150U and Athlon Gold 7220U.
| PCIe version | 3.0 | 3.0 |
| PCI Express lanes | 12 | 4 |
Synthetic benchmark performance
Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
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.
GeekBench 5 Single-Core
GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.
GeekBench 5 Multi-Core
GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.
Geekbench 5.5 Multi-Core
Pros & cons summary
| Performance score | 2.51 | 2.98 |
| Integrated graphics card | 2.98 | 2.85 |
| Recency | 6 January 2020 | 20 September 2022 |
| Chip lithography | 14 nm | 6 nm |
Athlon Gold 3150U has 4.6% faster integrated GPU.
Athlon Gold 7220U, on the other hand, has a 18.7% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 2 years, and a 133.3% more advanced lithography process.
The Athlon Gold 7220U is our recommended choice as it beats the Athlon Gold 3150U in performance tests.
Should you still have questions on choice between Athlon Gold 3150U and Athlon Gold 7220U, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.
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