HiSilicon Kirin 930 vs AMD Athlon Gold 7220C

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HiSilicon Kirin 930 CPU1 vs CPU2 AMD Athlon Gold 7220C
HiSilicon Kirin 930 AMD Athlon Gold 7220C

CPU comparison

HiSilicon Kirin 930 or AMD Athlon Gold 7220C - 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 HiSilicon Kirin 930 has 8 cores with 8 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 2.00 GHz. Up to GB of memory is supported in 2 memory channels. The HiSilicon Kirin 930 was released in Q1/2015.

The AMD Athlon Gold 7220C has 2 cores with 4 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 3.70 GHz. The CPU supports up to 16 GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The AMD Athlon Gold 7220C was released in Q3/2022.
HiSilicon Kirin (29) Family AMD Athlon (29)
HiSilicon Kirin 930 (2) CPU group AMD Ryzen 7020U (4)
3 Generation 6
Cortex-A53 / Cortex-A53 Architecture Mendocino (Zen 2)
Mobile Segment Mobile
-- Predecessor --
-- Successor --

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The HiSilicon Kirin 930 has 8 CPU cores and can calculate 8 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the HiSilicon Kirin 930 is 2.00 GHz while the AMD Athlon Gold 7220C has 2 CPU cores and 4 threads can calculate simultaneously. The clock frequency of the AMD Athlon Gold 7220C is at 2.40 GHz (3.70 GHz).

HiSilicon Kirin 930 Characteristic AMD Athlon Gold 7220C
8 Cores 2
8 Threads 4
hybrid (big.LITTLE) Core architecture normal
No Hyperthreading Yes
No Overclocking ? No
2.00 GHz
4x Cortex-A53
A-Core 2.40 GHz (3.70 GHz)
2x Zen 2
1.50 GHz
4x Cortex-A53
B-Core --

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.

HiSilicon Kirin 930 Characteristic AMD Athlon Gold 7220C
-- AI hardware --
-- AI specifications --

Internal Graphics

The HiSilicon Kirin 930 or AMD Athlon Gold 7220C has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. The iGPU uses the system's main memory as graphics memory and sits on the processor's die.

ARM Mali-T628 MP4 GPU AMD Radeon 610M
0.60 GHz GPU frequency 0.40 GHz
0.60 GHz GPU (Turbo) 1.90 GHz
Midgard 2 GPU Generation 9
32nm Technology 6 nm
1 Max. displays 3
4 Compute units 2
64 Shader 128
No Hardware Raytracing Yes
No Frame Generation No
-- Max. GPU Memory 8 GB
11 DirectX Version 12

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.

ARM Mali-T628 MP4 GPU AMD Radeon 610M
No Codec h265 / HEVC (8 bit) Decode / Encode
No Codec h265 / HEVC (10 bit) Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode Codec h264 Decode / Encode
No Codec VP9 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode Codec VP8 Decode / Encode
No Codec AV1 Decode
No Codec AVC Decode / Encode
No Codec VC-1 Decode
No Codec JPEG Decode / Encode

Memory & PCIe

The HiSilicon Kirin 930 can use up to GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is --. The AMD Athlon Gold 7220C supports up to 16 GB of memory in 2 memory channels and achieves a memory bandwidth of up to 44.0 GB/s.

HiSilicon Kirin 930 Characteristic AMD Athlon Gold 7220C
LPDDR3-1600 Memory LPDDR5-5500
Max. Memory 16 GB
2 (Dual Channel) Memory channels 2 (Dual Channel)
-- Max. Bandwidth 44.0 GB/s
No ECC No
-- L2 Cache 1.00 MB
-- L3 Cache 2.00 MB
-- PCIe version 3.0
-- PCIe lanes 4
-- PCIe Bandwidth 3.9 GB/s

Thermal Management

The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the HiSilicon Kirin 930 is --, while the AMD Athlon Gold 7220C has a TDP of 15 W. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently.

HiSilicon Kirin 930 Characteristic AMD Athlon Gold 7220C
-- TDP (PL1 / PBP) 15 W
-- TDP (PL2) --
-- TDP up --
-- TDP down --
-- Tjunction max. 100 °C

Technical details

The HiSilicon Kirin 930 is manufactured in 28 nm and has 0.00 MB cache. The AMD Athlon Gold 7220C is manufactured in 6 nm and has a 3.00 MB cache.

HiSilicon Kirin 930 Characteristic AMD Athlon Gold 7220C
28 nm Technology 6 nm
Chiplet Chip design Monolithic
Armv8-A (64 bit) Instruction set (ISA) x86-64 (64 bit)
-- ISA extensions SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
-- Socket FT6
None Virtualization AMD-V, SVM
No AES-NI Yes
Android Operating systems Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux
Q1/2015 Release date Q3/2022
-- Release price --
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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.
HiSilicon Kirin 930 HiSilicon Kirin 930
ARM Mali-T628 MP4 @ 0.60 GHz
77 (20%)
AMD Athlon Gold 7220C AMD Athlon Gold 7220C
AMD Radeon 610M @ 1.90 GHz
383 (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.
HiSilicon Kirin 930 HiSilicon Kirin 930
8C 8T @ 2.00 GHz
0 (0%)
AMD Athlon Gold 7220C AMD Athlon Gold 7220C
2C 4T @ 3.70 GHz
879 (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.
HiSilicon Kirin 930 HiSilicon Kirin 930
8C 8T @ 2.00 GHz
0 (0%)
AMD Athlon Gold 7220C AMD Athlon Gold 7220C
2C 4T @ 3.00 GHz
2011 (100%)

Devices using this processor

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