AMD Athlon Gold 7220U vs Intel Core i7-10700F

Last updated: 2024-04-16

CPU comparison with benchmarks


AMD Athlon Gold 7220U		Intel Core i7-10700F
CPU comparison AMD Athlon Gold 7220U or Intel Core i7-10700F - which processor is faster? In this comparison we look at the differences and analyze which of these two CPUs is better. We compare the technical data and benchmark results. The AMD Athlon Gold 7220U has 2 cores with 4 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 3.70 GHz. Up to 16 GB of memory is supported in 2 memory channels. The AMD Athlon Gold 7220U was released in Q3/2022. The Intel Core i7-10700F has 8 cores with 16 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 4.80 GHz. The CPU supports up to 128 GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The Intel Core i7-10700F was released in Q2/2020.

AMD Athlon (29)	Family	Intel Core i7 (298)
AMD Ryzen 7020U (4)	CPU group	Intel Core i 10000 (43)
6	Generation	10
Mendocino (Zen 2)	Architecture	Comet Lake S
Mobile	Segment	Desktop / Server
--	Predecessor	Intel Core i7-9700F
--	Successor	Intel Core i7-11700F

CPU Cores and Base Frequency The AMD Athlon Gold 7220U is a 2 core processor with a clock frequency of 2.40 GHz (3.70 GHz). The Intel Core i7-10700F has 8 CPU cores with a clock frequency of 2.90 GHz (4.80 GHz).
AMD Athlon Gold 7220U	Characteristic	Intel Core i7-10700F
2	Cores	8
4	Threads	16
normal	Core architecture	normal
Yes	Hyperthreading	Yes
No	Overclocking ?	No
2.40 GHz	Frequency	2.90 GHz
3.70 GHz	Turbo Frequency (1 Core)	4.80 GHz
3.00 GHz	Turbo Frequency (All Cores)	4.60 GHz

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Processors with the support of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors. Algorithms for ML improve their performance the more data they have collected via software. ML tasks can be processed up to 10,000 times faster than with a classic processor.
AMD Athlon Gold 7220U	Characteristic	Intel Core i7-10700F
--	AI hardware	--
--	AI specifications	--

Internal Graphics The integrated graphics unit of a processor is not only responsible for the pure image output on the system, but can also significantly increase the efficiency of the system with the support of modern video codecs.
AMD Radeon 610M	GPU	no iGPU
0.40 GHz	GPU frequency	--
1.90 GHz	GPU (Turbo)	--
9	GPU Generation	--
6 nm	Technology
3	Max. displays
2	Compute units	--
128	Shader	--
Yes	Hardware Raytracing	No
No	Frame Generation	No
8 GB	Max. GPU Memory	--
12	DirectX Version	--

Hardware codec support A photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos.
AMD Radeon 610M	GPU	no iGPU
Decode / Encode	Codec h265 / HEVC (8 bit)	No
Decode / Encode	Codec h265 / HEVC (10 bit)	No
Decode / Encode	Codec h264	No
Decode / Encode	Codec VP9	No
Decode / Encode	Codec VP8	No
Decode	Codec AV1	No
Decode / Encode	Codec AVC	No
Decode	Codec VC-1	No
Decode / Encode	Codec JPEG	No

Memory & PCIe The AMD Athlon Gold 7220U supports a maximum of 16 GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The Intel Core i7-10700F can connect up to 128 GB of memory in 2 memory channels.
AMD Athlon Gold 7220U	Characteristic	Intel Core i7-10700F
LPDDR5-5500	Memory	DDR4-2933
16 GB	Max. Memory	128 GB
2 (Dual Channel)	Memory channels	2 (Dual Channel)
44.0 GB/s	Max. Bandwidth	46.9 GB/s
No	ECC	No
1.00 MB	L2 Cache	--
4.00 MB	L3 Cache	16.00 MB
3.0	PCIe version	3.0
4	PCIe lanes	16
3.9 GB/s	PCIe Bandwidth	15.8 GB/s
Thermal Management The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of a processor specifies the required cooling solution. The AMD Athlon Gold 7220U has a TDP of 15 W, that of the Intel Core i7-10700F is 65 W.
AMD Athlon Gold 7220U	Characteristic	Intel Core i7-10700F
15 W	TDP (PL1 / PBP)	65 W
--	TDP (PL2)	--
--	TDP up	--
8 W	TDP down	--
100 °C	Tjunction max.	100 °C
Technical details The AMD Athlon Gold 7220U has a 5.00 MB cache, while the Intel Core i7-10700F cache has a total of 16.00 MB.
AMD Athlon Gold 7220U	Characteristic	Intel Core i7-10700F
6 nm	Technology	14 nm
Monolithic	Chip design	Monolithic
x86-64 (64 bit)	Instruction set (ISA)	x86-64 (64 bit)
SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3	ISA extensions	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
FT6	Socket	LGA 1200
AMD-V, SVM	Virtualization	VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
Yes	AES-NI	Yes
Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux	Operating systems	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux
Q3/2022	Release date	Q2/2020
--	Release price	298 $

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Average performance in benchmarks

⌀ Single core performance in 2 CPU benchmarks

AMD Athlon Gold 7220U (74%)

Intel Core i7-10700F (100%)

⌀ Multi core performance in 3 CPU benchmarks

AMD Athlon Gold 7220U (29%)

Intel Core i7-10700F (100%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	AMD Athlon Gold 7220U 2C 4T @ 3.70 GHz	934 (74%)
	Intel Core i7-10700F 8C 16T @ 4.80 GHz	1267 (100%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	AMD Athlon Gold 7220U 2C 4T @ 3.00 GHz	2154 (24%)
	Intel Core i7-10700F 8C 16T @ 4.60 GHz	8945 (100%)

Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The single-core benchmark only evaluates the performance of the fastest CPU core, the number of CPU cores in a processor is irrelevant here.


	AMD Athlon Gold 7220U 2C 4T @ 3.70 GHz	1180 (74%)
	Intel Core i7-10700F 8C 16T @ 4.80 GHz	1597 (100%)

Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The multi-core benchmark evaluates the performance of all of the processor's CPU cores. Virtual thread improvements such as AMD SMT or Intel's Hyper-Threading have a positive impact on the benchmark result.


	AMD Athlon Gold 7220U 2C 4T @ 3.00 GHz	2629 (33%)
	Intel Core i7-10700F 8C 16T @ 4.60 GHz	7926 (100%)

Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark

Some of the CPUs listed below have been benchmarked by CPU-monkey. However the majority of CPUs have not been tested and the results have been estimated by a CPU-monkey’s secret proprietary formula. As such they do not accurately reflect the actual Passmark CPU mark values and are not endorsed by PassMark Software Pty Ltd.


	AMD Athlon Gold 7220U 2C 4T @ 3.00 GHz	5012 (30%)
	Intel Core i7-10700F 8C 16T @ 4.60 GHz	16780 (100%)

Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	AMD Athlon Gold 7220U 2C 4T @ 3.70 GHz	0 (0%)
	Intel Core i7-10700F 8C 16T @ 4.80 GHz	1255 (100%)

Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	AMD Athlon Gold 7220U 2C 4T @ 3.00 GHz	0 (0%)
	Intel Core i7-10700F 8C 16T @ 4.60 GHz	12250 (100%)

Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	AMD Athlon Gold 7220U 2C 4T @ 3.70 GHz	0 (0%)
	Intel Core i7-10700F 8C 16T @ 4.80 GHz	499 (100%)

Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	AMD Athlon Gold 7220U 2C 4T @ 3.00 GHz	0 (0%)
	Intel Core i7-10700F 8C 16T @ 4.60 GHz	4834 (100%)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.


	AMD Athlon Gold 7220U AMD Radeon 610M @ 1.90 GHz	383 (100%)
	Intel Core i7-10700F @ 0.00 GHz	0 (0%)

Blender 3.1 Benchmark

In the Blender Benchmark 3.1, the scenes "monster", "junkshop" and "classroom" are rendered and the time required by the system is measured. In our benchmark we test the CPU and not the graphics card. Blender 3.1 was presented as a standalone version in March 2022.


	AMD Athlon Gold 7220U 2C 4T @ 3.00 GHz	0 (0%)
	Intel Core i7-10700F 8C 16T @ 4.60 GHz	180 (100%)

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Single-Core)

The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.


	AMD Athlon Gold 7220U 2C 4T @ 3.00 GHz	0 (0%)
	Intel Core i7-10700F 8C 16T @ 4.60 GHz	531 (100%)

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Multi-Core)

The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.


	AMD Athlon Gold 7220U 2C 4T @ 2.40 GHz	0 (0%)
	Intel Core i7-10700F 8C 16T @ 2.90 GHz	5352 (100%)

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	AMD Athlon Gold 7220U 2C 4T @ 3.70 GHz	0 (0%)
	Intel Core i7-10700F 8C 16T @ 4.80 GHz	214 (100%)

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	AMD Athlon Gold 7220U 2C 4T @ 3.00 GHz	0 (0%)
	Intel Core i7-10700F 8C 16T @ 4.60 GHz	2291 (100%)

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