Intel Core i9-10900X vs AMD Athlon Gold 7220U
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CPU comparison with benchmarks
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CPU comparisonIntel Core i9-10900X or AMD Athlon Gold 7220U - 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 Intel Core i9-10900X has 10 cores with 20 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 4.70 GHz. Up to 256 GB of memory is supported in 4 memory channels. The Intel Core i9-10900X was released in Q4/2019. The AMD Athlon Gold 7220U 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 7220U was released in Q3/2022. |
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| Intel Core i9 (78) | Family | AMD Athlon (29) |
| Intel Core i 10000X (4) | CPU group | AMD Ryzen 7020U (4) |
| 10 | Generation | 6 |
| Cascade Lake | Architecture | Mendocino (Zen 2) |
| Desktop / Server | Segment | Mobile |
| Intel Core i9-9900X | Predecessor | -- |
| -- | Successor | -- |
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CPU Cores and Base FrequencyThe Intel Core i9-10900X has 10 CPU cores and can calculate 20 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the Intel Core i9-10900X is 3.70 GHz (4.70 GHz) while the AMD Athlon Gold 7220U has 2 CPU cores and 4 threads can calculate simultaneously. The clock frequency of the AMD Athlon Gold 7220U is at 2.40 GHz (3.70 GHz). |
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| Intel Core i9-10900X | Characteristic | AMD Athlon Gold 7220U |
| 10 | Cores | 2 |
| 20 | Threads | 4 |
| normal | Core architecture | normal |
| Yes | Hyperthreading | Yes |
| Yes | Overclocking ? | No |
| 3.70 GHz | Frequency | 2.40 GHz |
| 4.70 GHz | Turbo Frequency (1 Core) | 3.70 GHz |
| 4.50 GHz | Turbo Frequency (All Cores) | 3.00 GHz |
Integrated graphics (iGPU)The Intel Core i9-10900X or AMD Athlon Gold 7220U 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. |
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| no iGPU | GPU | AMD Radeon 610M |
| GPU frequency | 0.40 GHz | |
| -- | GPU (Turbo) | 1.90 GHz |
| -- | GPU Generation | 9 |
| Technology | 6 nm | |
| Max. displays | 3 | |
| -- | Compute units | 2 |
| -- | Shader | 128 |
| No | Hardware Raytracing | Yes |
| No | Frame Generation | No |
| -- | Max. GPU Memory | 8 GB |
| -- | DirectX Version | 12 |
Hardware codec supportA 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. |
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| no iGPU | GPU | AMD Radeon 610M |
| No | Codec h265 / HEVC (8 bit) | Decode / Encode |
| No | Codec h265 / HEVC (10 bit) | Decode / Encode |
| No | Codec h264 | Decode / Encode |
| No | Codec VP9 | Decode / Encode |
| No | Codec VP8 | Decode / Encode |
| No | Codec AV1 | Decode |
| No | Codec AVC | Decode / Encode |
| No | Codec VC-1 | Decode |
| No | Codec JPEG | Decode / Encode |
Memory & PCIeThe Intel Core i9-10900X can use up to 256 GB of memory in 4 memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is 93.8 GB/s. The AMD Athlon Gold 7220U supports up to 16 GB of memory in 2 memory channels and achieves a memory bandwidth of up to 44.0 GB/s. |
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| Intel Core i9-10900X | Characteristic | AMD Athlon Gold 7220U |
| DDR4-2933 | Memory | LPDDR5-5500 |
| 256 GB | Max. Memory | 16 GB |
| 4 (Quad Channel) | Memory channels | 2 (Dual Channel) |
| 93.8 GB/s | Max. Bandwidth | 44.0 GB/s |
| No | ECC | No |
| -- | L2 Cache | 1.00 MB |
| 19.25 MB | L3 Cache | 4.00 MB |
| 3.0 | PCIe version | 3.0 |
| 48 | PCIe lanes | 4 |
| 47.3 GB/s | PCIe Bandwidth | 3.9 GB/s |
Thermal ManagementThe thermal design power (TDP for short) of the Intel Core i9-10900X is 165 W, while the AMD Athlon Gold 7220U has a TDP of 15 W. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently. |
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| Intel Core i9-10900X | Characteristic | AMD Athlon Gold 7220U |
| 165 W | TDP (PL1 / PBP) | 15 W |
| -- | TDP (PL2) | -- |
| -- | TDP up | -- |
| -- | TDP down | 8 W |
| 94 °C | Tjunction max. | 100 °C |
Technical detailsThe Intel Core i9-10900X is manufactured in 14 nm and has 19.25 MB cache. The AMD Athlon Gold 7220U is manufactured in 6 nm and has a 5.00 MB cache. |
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| Intel Core i9-10900X | Characteristic | AMD Athlon Gold 7220U |
| 14 nm | Technology | 6 nm |
| Monolithic | Chip design | Monolithic |
| x86-64 (64 bit) | Instruction set (ISA) | x86-64 (64 bit) |
| SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512 | ISA extensions | SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3 |
| LGA 2066 | Socket | FT6 |
| VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d | Virtualization | AMD-V, SVM |
| Yes | AES-NI | Yes |
| Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux | Operating systems | Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux |
| Q4/2019 | Release date | Q3/2022 |
| 590 $ | Release price | -- |
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Average performance in benchmarks
⌀ Single core performance in 2 CPU benchmarks
⌀ Multi core performance in 3 CPU benchmarks
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.
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Intel Core i9-10900X
10C 20T @ 4.70 GHz |
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AMD Athlon Gold 7220U
2C 4T @ 3.70 GHz |
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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.
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Intel Core i9-10900X
10C 20T @ 4.50 GHz |
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AMD Athlon Gold 7220U
2C 4T @ 3.00 GHz |
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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.
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Intel Core i9-10900X
10C 20T @ 4.70 GHz |
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AMD Athlon Gold 7220U
2C 4T @ 3.70 GHz |
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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.
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Intel Core i9-10900X
10C 20T @ 4.50 GHz |
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AMD Athlon Gold 7220U
2C 4T @ 3.00 GHz |
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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.
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Intel Core i9-10900X
10C 20T @ 4.50 GHz |
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AMD Athlon Gold 7220U
2C 4T @ 3.00 GHz |
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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.
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Intel Core i9-10900X
10C 20T @ 4.70 GHz |
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AMD Athlon Gold 7220U
2C 4T @ 3.70 GHz |
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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.
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Intel Core i9-10900X
10C 20T @ 4.50 GHz |
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AMD Athlon Gold 7220U
2C 4T @ 3.00 GHz |
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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.
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Intel Core i9-10900X
@ 0.00 GHz |
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AMD Athlon Gold 7220U
AMD Radeon 610M @ 1.90 GHz |
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Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
Blender is a free 3D graphics software for rendering (creating) 3D bodies, which can also be textured and animated in the software. The Blender benchmark creates predefined scenes and measures the time (s) required for the entire scene. The shorter the time required, the better. We selected bmw27 as the benchmark scene.
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Intel Core i9-10900X
10C 20T @ 4.50 GHz |
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AMD Athlon Gold 7220U
2C 4T @ 3.00 GHz |
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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.
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Intel Core i9-10900X
10C 20T @ 3.70 GHz |
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AMD Athlon Gold 7220U
2C 4T @ 2.40 GHz |
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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.
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Intel Core i9-10900X
10C 20T @ 4.70 GHz |
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AMD Athlon Gold 7220U
2C 4T @ 3.70 GHz |
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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.
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Intel Core i9-10900X
10C 20T @ 4.50 GHz |
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AMD Athlon Gold 7220U
2C 4T @ 3.00 GHz |
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| Intel Core i9-10900X | AMD Athlon Gold 7220U |
| Unknown | Unknown |
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