Athlon Gold 7220C vs Atom Z500
Primary details
Comparing Atom Z500 and Athlon Gold 7220C processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | not rated |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Market segment | Laptop | Laptop |
| Series | Intel Atom | AMD Mendocino (Zen 2, Ryzen 7020) |
| Architecture codename | Silverthorne (2008−2010) | Mendocino (Zen 2) (2022−2023) |
| Release date | 2 April 2008 (16 years ago) | 23 May 2023 (1 year ago) |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $45 | no data |
Detailed specifications
Atom Z500 and Athlon Gold 7220C 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 | 1 (Single-Core) | 2 (Dual-core) |
| Threads | 1 | 4 |
| Base clock speed | no data | 2.4 GHz |
| Boost clock speed | 0.8 GHz | 3.7 GHz |
| Bus type | FSB | no data |
| Bus rate | 400 MT/s | no data |
| Multiplier | 8 | no data |
| L1 cache | 56 KB | 128 KB |
| L2 cache | 512 KB | 1 MB |
| L3 cache | 0 KB | 4 MB |
| Chip lithography | 45 nm | 6 nm |
| Die size | 24.18 mm2 | no data |
| Maximum core temperature | 90 °C | no data |
| Number of transistors | 47 Million | no data |
| 64 bit support | - | + |
| Windows 11 compatibility | - | no data |
| VID voltage range | 0.80 -1.1V | no data |
Compatibility
Information on Atom Z500 and Athlon Gold 7220C 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 | 1 (Uniprocessor) | no data |
| Socket | PBGA441 | no data |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 0.65 Watt | 15 Watt |
Technologies and extensions
Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Atom Z500 and Athlon Gold 7220C. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
| Instruction set extensions | Intel® SSE2, Intel® SSE3, Intel® SSSE3 | XFR, FMA3, SSE 4.2, AVX2, SMT |
| Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST) | + | no data |
| Turbo Boost Technology | - | no data |
| Hyper-Threading Technology | + | no data |
| Idle States | + | no data |
| Thermal Monitoring | + | - |
| Demand Based Switching | + | no data |
| FSB parity | - | no data |
Security technologies
Atom Z500 and Athlon Gold 7220C technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.
| TXT | - | no data |
| EDB | + | no data |
Virtualization technologies
Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Atom Z500 and Athlon Gold 7220C are enumerated here.
| VT-d | - | no data |
| VT-x | - | no data |
Graphics specifications
General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.
| Integrated graphics card | - | AMD Radeon 610M |
Pros & cons summary
| Recency | 2 April 2008 | 23 May 2023 |
| Physical cores | 1 | 2 |
| Threads | 1 | 4 |
| Chip lithography | 45 nm | 6 nm |
Athlon Gold 7220C has an age advantage of 15 years, 100% more physical cores and 300% more threads, and a 650% more advanced lithography process.
We couldn't decide between Atom Z500 and Athlon Gold 7220C. We've got no test results to judge.
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