Athlon Gold 7220C vs Atom Z550

Primary details

Comparing Atom Z550 and Athlon Gold 7220C processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking	3162	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)
Power efficiency	9.46	no data
Architecture codename	Silverthorne (2008−2010)	Mendocino (Zen 2) (2022−2023)
Release date	8 April 2009 (15 years ago)	23 May 2023 (1 year ago)

Detailed specifications

Atom Z550 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	2	4
Base clock speed	2 GHz	2.4 GHz
Boost clock speed	2 GHz	3.7 GHz
Bus type	FSB	no data
Bus rate	533.33 MT/s	no data
Multiplier	15	no data
L1 cache	56 KB (per core)	128 KB
L2 cache	512 KB (per core)	1 MB
L3 cache	0 KB	4 MB
Chip lithography	45 nm	6 nm
Die size	26 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

Compatibility

Information on Atom Z550 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)	2.4 Watt	15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Atom Z550 and Athlon Gold 7220C. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	no data	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 Z550 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 Z550 and Athlon Gold 7220C are enumerated here.

VT-d	-	no data
VT-x	+	no data

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Atom Z550 and Athlon Gold 7220C. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types

unknown

no data

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card

On certain motherboards (Chipset feature)

AMD Radeon 610M ( - 1900 MHz)

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	8 April 2009	23 May 2023
Physical cores	1	2
Threads	2	4
Chip lithography	45 nm	6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	2 Watt	15 Watt

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