Athlon Gold 7220U: specs and benchmarks

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Athlon Gold 7220U
2022
2 cores / 4 threads, 15 Watt
2.98

Athlon Gold 7220U provides poor benchmark performance at 2.98% of a leader's which is a 96-core EPYC 9655P.

Summary

AMD started Athlon Gold 7220U sales 20 September 2022. This is a Mendocino (Zen 2) architecture notebook processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 2 cores and 4 threads, and is based on 6 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 3700 MHz and a locked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is AMD Socket FP6 processor with a TDP of 15 Watt. It supports DDR5 Dual-channel memory.

Primary details

Athlon Gold 7220U processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in the ranking1639
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Market segmentLaptop
SeriesMendocino (Zen 2, Ryzen 7020)
Power efficiency18.80of 100.00 (Core Ultra 7 164U)
Architecture codenameMendocino (Zen 2) (2022−2023)
Release date20 September 2022 (2 years 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 cores2 (Dual-core)
Threads4
Base clock speed2.4 GHzof 4.7 GHz (FX-9590)
Boost clock speed3.7 GHzof 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS)
L1 cache64 KB (per core)of 80 KB (EPYC 9965)
L2 cache512 KB (per core)of 2 MB (Xeon 6980P)
L3 cache4 MB (shared)of 1152 MB (EPYC 9684X)
Chip lithography6 nmof 3 nm (Apple M3 Max 16-Core)
Die size100 mm2
64 bit support+

Compatibility

Information on Athlon Gold 7220U 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.

Number of CPUs in a configuration1of 8 (Opteron 842)
SocketFP6
Power consumption (TDP)15 Wattof 3100 ‑ 4500 (Ryzen 7 7435H)

Technologies and extensions

Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Athlon Gold 7220U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsXFR, FMA3, SSE 4.2, AVX2, SMT
AES-NI+
AVX+

Virtualization technologies

Supported virtual machine optimization technologies. Some are specific to Intel only, some to AMD.

AMD-V+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Athlon Gold 7220U's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR5 Dual-channel

Graphics specifications

General parameters of a GPU integrated into Athlon Gold 7220U.

Integrated graphics cardAMD Radeon 610M ( - 1900 MHz)

Peripherals

Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.

PCIe version3.0of 5.0 (Core i9-12900K)
PCI Express lanes4of 128 (EPYC 7551P)

Benchmark performance

Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Athlon Gold 7220U. 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. 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.

Athlon Gold 7220U 2.98

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.

Athlon Gold 7220U 4740

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.

Athlon Gold 7220U 1014

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.

Athlon Gold 7220U 2120

Geekbench 5.5 Multi-Core

Athlon Gold 7220U 2159

Gaming performance

Closest competitors

Athlon Gold 7220U's performance relative to its closest rivals among notebook CPUs.


Athlon Gold 7220U 100

Intel equivalent

According to our data, the closest Intel alternative to Athlon Gold 7220U is Core i7-2960XM, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 2 positions in our ranking.

Here are some closest Intel rivals to Athlon Gold 7220U:

Athlon Gold 7220U 100

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 Athlon Gold 7220U, according to our PC configuration statistics.

These are the fastest graphics cards for Athlon Gold 7220U in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 286 configurations using Athlon Gold 7220U in our database.

RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 4090
0.3% (1/286)
RTX 4060 GeForce RTX 4060
0.3% (1/286)
GTX 1070 GeForce GTX 1070
0.3% (1/286)
RX 580 Radeon RX 580
2.1% (6/286)
Radeon 780M Radeon 780M
0.7% (2/286)
R9 280 Radeon R9 280
0.3% (1/286)
R7 265 Radeon R7 265
0.3% (1/286)
GTX 660 GeForce GTX 660
0.3% (1/286)

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