AMD Athlon Gold 7220U vs Intel Core i3-N305

Comparative analysis of AMD Athlon Gold 7220U and Intel Core i3-N305 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

  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor: 6 nm vs 7 nm
Manufacturing process technology 6 nm vs 7 nm

Reasons to consider the Intel Core i3-N305

  • CPU is newer: launch date 3 month(s) later
  • 6 more cores, run more applications at once: 8 vs 2
  • 4 more threads: 8 vs 4
  • Around 3% higher clock speed: 3.80 GHz vs 3.7 GHz
  • Around 11% higher maximum core temperature: 105°C vs 95°C
  • 6x more L1 cache, more data can be stored in the L1 cache for quick access later
  • 16x more L2 cache, more data can be stored in the L2 cache for quick access later
  • 1572864x more L3 cache, more data can be stored in the L3 cache for quick access later
  • Around 5% better performance in PassMark - Single thread mark: 2193 vs 2094
  • 2.1x better performance in PassMark - CPU mark: 9946 vs 4740
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 3 Jan 2023 vs 20 Sep 2022
Number of cores 8 vs 2
Number of threads 8 vs 4
Maximum frequency 3.80 GHz vs 3.7 GHz
Maximum core temperature 105°C vs 95°C
L1 cache 768 KB vs 64K (per core)
L2 cache 16 MB vs 512K (per core)
L3 cache 6 MB vs 4MB (shared)
Benchmarks
PassMark - Single thread mark 2193 vs 2094
PassMark - CPU mark 9946 vs 4740

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: AMD Athlon Gold 7220U
CPU 2: Intel Core i3-N305

PassMark - Single thread mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
2094
2193
PassMark - CPU mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
4740
9946
Name AMD Athlon Gold 7220U Intel Core i3-N305
PassMark - Single thread mark 2094 2193
PassMark - CPU mark 4740 9946

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Athlon Gold 7220U Intel Core i3-N305

Essentials

Architecture codename Mendocino Alder Lake-N
Launch date 20 Sep 2022 3 Jan 2023
Place in performance rating 1209 1083
Processor Number i3-N305
Series Intel Core i3 Processor N-series
Vertical segment Mobile

Performance

Base frequency 2.4 GHz
Die size 100 mm²
L1 cache 64K (per core) 768 KB
L2 cache 512K (per core) 16 MB
L3 cache 4MB (shared) 6 MB
Manufacturing process technology 6 nm 7 nm
Maximum core temperature 95°C 105°C
Maximum frequency 3.7 GHz 3.80 GHz
Number of cores 2 8
Number of threads 4 8
Unlocked
64 bit support

Memory

ECC memory support
Supported memory types DDR5, Dual-channel DDR4 3200 MT/s, DDR5 4800 MT/s, LPDDR5 4800 MT/s
Max memory channels 1
Maximum memory size 16 GB
Supported memory frequency 4800 MHz

Compatibility

Max number of CPUs in a configuration 1 1
Sockets supported FP6 FCBGA1264
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt 15 Watt
Configurable TDP-down 9 Watt
Package Size 35mm x 24mm

Peripherals

PCIe configurations Gen 3, 4 Lanes, (CPU only)
Max number of PCIe lanes 9
USB revision 2.0/3.2

Graphics

Device ID 0x46D0
Execution Units 32
Graphics max dynamic frequency 1.25 GHz
Intel® Quick Sync Video
Processor graphics Intel UHD Graphics

Graphics interfaces

Number of displays supported 3

Graphics image quality

4K resolution support
Max resolution over DisplayPort 4096 x 2160@60Hz

Graphics API support

DirectX 12.1
OpenGL 4.6

Security & Reliability

Intel® OS Guard
Secure Boot

Advanced Technologies

Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® technology
General-Purpose Input/Output (GPIO)
Instruction set extensions Intel SSE4.1, Intel SSE4.2, Intel AVX2
Intel® AES New Instructions
Intel® Hyper-Threading technology
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)