AMD Athlon Gold 7220U vs Intel Core i7-10610U

Comparative analysis of AMD Athlon Gold 7220U and Intel Core i7-10610U processors for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Performance, Memory, Compatibility, Peripherals, Graphics, Graphics interfaces, Graphics image quality, Graphics API support, Security & Reliability, Advanced Technologies, Virtualization. Benchmark processor performance analysis: PassMark - Single thread mark, PassMark - CPU mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Athlon Gold 7220U

  • CPU is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 4 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor: 6 nm vs 14 nm
Launch date 20 Sep 2022 vs 13 May 2020
Manufacturing process technology 6 nm vs 14 nm

Reasons to consider the Intel Core i7-10610U

  • 2 more cores, run more applications at once: 4 vs 2
  • 4 more threads: 8 vs 4
  • Around 32% higher clock speed: 4.90 GHz vs 3.7 GHz
  • Around 5% higher maximum core temperature: 100°C vs 95°C
  • 2x more L1 cache, more data can be stored in the L1 cache for quick access later
  • 2097152x more L3 cache, more data can be stored in the L3 cache for quick access later
  • Around 6% better performance in PassMark - Single thread mark: 2274 vs 2148
  • Around 41% better performance in PassMark - CPU mark: 6723 vs 4753
Specifications (specs)
Number of cores 4 vs 2
Number of threads 8 vs 4
Maximum frequency 4.90 GHz vs 3.7 GHz
Maximum core temperature 100°C vs 95°C
L1 cache 256 KB vs 64K (per core)
L3 cache 8 MB vs 4MB (shared)
Benchmarks
PassMark - Single thread mark 2274 vs 2148
PassMark - CPU mark 6723 vs 4753

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: AMD Athlon Gold 7220U
CPU 2: Intel Core i7-10610U

PassMark - Single thread mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
2148
2274
PassMark - CPU mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
4753
6723
Name AMD Athlon Gold 7220U Intel Core i7-10610U
PassMark - Single thread mark 2148 2274
PassMark - CPU mark 4753 6723

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Athlon Gold 7220U Intel Core i7-10610U

Essentials

Architecture codename Mendocino Comet Lake
Launch date 20 Sep 2022 13 May 2020
Place in performance rating 1094 1005
Launch price (MSRP) $409
Processor Number i7-10610U
Series 10th Generation Intel Core i7 Processors
Status Launched
Vertical segment Mobile

Performance

Base frequency 2.4 GHz 1.80 GHz
Die size 100 mm²
L1 cache 64K (per core) 256 KB
L2 cache 512K (per core) 1 MB
L3 cache 4MB (shared) 8 MB
Manufacturing process technology 6 nm 14 nm
Maximum core temperature 95°C 100°C
Maximum frequency 3.7 GHz 4.90 GHz
Number of cores 2 4
Number of threads 4 8
Unlocked
64 bit support
Bus Speed 4 GT/s

Memory

ECC memory support
Supported memory types DDR5, Dual-channel DDR4-2666, LPDDR3-2133, LPDDR4-2933
Max memory channels 2
Maximum memory bandwidth 45.8 GB/s
Maximum memory size 64 GB

Compatibility

Max number of CPUs in a configuration 1 1
Sockets supported FP6 FCBGA1528
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt 15 Watt
Configurable TDP-down 10 Watt
Configurable TDP-down Frequency 800 MHz
Configurable TDP-up 25 Watt
Configurable TDP-up Frequency 2.30 GHz
Package Size 46mm x 24mm

Peripherals

PCIe configurations Gen 3, 4 Lanes, (CPU only) 1x4, 2x2, 1x2+2x1 and 4x1
Max number of PCIe lanes 16
PCI Express revision 3.0

Graphics

Device ID 0x9B41,0x9BCC
Execution Units 24
Graphics base frequency 300 MHz
Graphics max dynamic frequency 1.15 GHz
Intel® Clear Video HD technology
Intel® Clear Video technology
Intel® Quick Sync Video
Max video memory 32 GB
Processor graphics Intel UHD Graphics

Graphics interfaces

DisplayPort
DVI
eDP
HDMI
Number of displays supported 3

Graphics image quality

4K resolution support
Max resolution over DisplayPort 4096x2304@60Hz
Max resolution over eDP 4096x2304@60Hz
Max resolution over HDMI 1.4 4096x2304@24Hz

Graphics API support

DirectX 12
OpenGL 4.5

Security & Reliability

Intel® Identity Protection technology
Intel® Memory Protection Extensions (Intel® MPX)
Intel® OS Guard
Intel® Secure Key technology
Intel® Software Guard Extensions (Intel® SGX)
Intel® Trusted Execution technology (TXT)
Secure Boot

Advanced Technologies

Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® technology
Idle States
Instruction set extensions Intel SSE4.1, Intel SSE4.2, Intel AVX2
Intel 64
Intel® AES New Instructions
Intel® Flex Memory Access
Intel® Hyper-Threading technology
Intel® My WiFi technology
Intel® Optane™ Memory Supported
Intel® Stable Image Platform Program (SIPP)
Intel® Thermal Velocity Boost
Intel® Turbo Boost technology
Intel® vPro™ Platform Eligibility
Speed Shift technology
Thermal Monitoring

Virtualization

Intel® Virtualization Technology (VT-x)
Intel® Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (VT-d)
Intel® VT-x with Extended Page Tables (EPT)