Intel Processor N100 vs AMD Athlon Gold 7220U

Last updated: 2024-04-16

CPU comparison with benchmarks


Intel Processor N100		AMD Athlon Gold 7220U
CPU comparison Intel Processor N100 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 Processor N100 has 4 cores with 4 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 3.40 GHz. Up to 16 GB of memory is supported in 1 memory channels. The Intel Processor N100 was released in Q1/2023. 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.

Intel Processor N (5)	Family	AMD Athlon (29)
Intel Processor N50/N100/N200 (5)	CPU group	AMD Ryzen 7020U (4)
13	Generation	6
Alder Lake N	Architecture	Mendocino (Zen 2)
Mobile	Segment	Mobile
--	Predecessor	--
--	Successor	--

CPU Cores and Base Frequency The Intel Processor N100 has 4 CPU cores and can calculate 4 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the Intel Processor N100 is 1.80 GHz (3.40 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).
Intel Processor N100	Characteristic	AMD Athlon Gold 7220U
4	Cores	2
4	Threads	4
normal	Core architecture	normal
No	Hyperthreading	Yes
No	Overclocking ?	No
1.80 GHz	Frequency	2.40 GHz
3.40 GHz	Turbo Frequency (1 Core)	3.70 GHz
3.00 GHz	Turbo Frequency (All Cores)	3.00 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.
Intel Processor N100	Characteristic	AMD Athlon Gold 7220U
--	AI hardware	--
--	AI specifications	--

Internal Graphics The Intel Processor N100 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.
Intel UHD Graphics 24 EUs (Alder Lake)	GPU	AMD Radeon 610M
0.30 GHz	GPU frequency	0.40 GHz
0.75 GHz	GPU (Turbo)	1.90 GHz
12	GPU Generation	9
10 nm	Technology	6 nm
3	Max. displays	3
24	Compute units	2
192	Shader	128
No	Hardware Raytracing	Yes
No	Frame Generation	No
8 GB	Max. GPU Memory	8 GB
12	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.
Intel UHD Graphics 24 EUs (Alder Lake)	GPU	AMD Radeon 610M
Decode / Encode	Codec h265 / HEVC (8 bit)	Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode	Codec h265 / HEVC (10 bit)	Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode	Codec h264	Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode	Codec VP9	Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode	Codec VP8	Decode / Encode
Decode	Codec AV1	Decode
Decode / Encode	Codec AVC	Decode / Encode
Decode	Codec VC-1	Decode
Decode / Encode	Codec JPEG	Decode / Encode

Memory & PCIe The Intel Processor N100 can use up to 16 GB of memory in 1 memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is 38.4 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.
Intel Processor N100	Characteristic	AMD Athlon Gold 7220U
DDR5-4800, DDR4-3200	Memory	LPDDR5-5500
16 GB	Max. Memory	16 GB
1 (Single Channel)	Memory channels	2 (Dual Channel)
38.4 GB/s	Max. Bandwidth	44.0 GB/s
No	ECC	No
4.00 MB	L2 Cache	1.00 MB
6.00 MB	L3 Cache	4.00 MB
3.0	PCIe version	3.0
9	PCIe lanes	4
8.9 GB/s	PCIe Bandwidth	3.9 GB/s
Thermal Management The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the Intel Processor N100 is 6 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.
Intel Processor N100	Characteristic	AMD Athlon Gold 7220U
6 W	TDP (PL1 / PBP)	15 W
25 W	TDP (PL2)	--
10 W	TDP up	--
--	TDP down	8 W
105 °C	Tjunction max.	100 °C
Technical details The Intel Processor N100 is manufactured in 10 nm and has 10.00 MB cache. The AMD Athlon Gold 7220U is manufactured in 6 nm and has a 5.00 MB cache.
Intel Processor N100	Characteristic	AMD Athlon Gold 7220U
10 nm	Technology	6 nm
Monolithic	Chip design	Monolithic
x86-64 (64 bit)	Instruction set (ISA)	x86-64 (64 bit)
SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2	ISA extensions	SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
BGA	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
Q1/2023	Release date	Q3/2022
128 $	Release price	--

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Average performance in benchmarks

⌀ Single core performance in 2 CPU benchmarks

Intel Processor N100 (100%)

AMD Athlon Gold 7220U (96%)

⌀ Multi core performance in 3 CPU benchmarks

Intel Processor N100 (100%)

AMD Athlon Gold 7220U (84%)

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.


	Intel Processor N100 4C 4T @ 3.40 GHz	989 (100%)
	AMD Athlon Gold 7220U 2C 4T @ 3.70 GHz	934 (94%)

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.


	Intel Processor N100 4C 4T @ 3.00 GHz	2840 (100%)
	AMD Athlon Gold 7220U 2C 4T @ 3.00 GHz	2154 (76%)

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.


	Intel Processor N100 4C 4T @ 3.40 GHz	1220 (100%)
	AMD Athlon Gold 7220U 2C 4T @ 3.70 GHz	1180 (97%)

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.


	Intel Processor N100 4C 4T @ 3.00 GHz	3129 (100%)
	AMD Athlon Gold 7220U 2C 4T @ 3.00 GHz	2629 (84%)

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.


	Intel Processor N100 Intel UHD Graphics 24 EUs (Alder Lake) @ 0.75 GHz	288 (75%)
	AMD Athlon Gold 7220U AMD Radeon 610M @ 1.90 GHz	383 (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.


	Intel Processor N100 4C 4T @ 3.00 GHz	5417 (100%)
	AMD Athlon Gold 7220U 2C 4T @ 3.00 GHz	5012 (93%)

Cinebench 2024 (Single-Core)

The Cinebench 2024 benchmark is based on the Redshift rendering engine, which is also used in Maxon's 3D program Cinema 4D. The benchmark runs are each 10 minutes long to test whether the processor is limited by its heat generation.


	Intel Processor N100 4C 4T @ 3.40 GHz	59 (100%)
	AMD Athlon Gold 7220U 2C 4T @ 3.70 GHz	0 (0%)

Cinebench 2024 (Multi-Core)

The Multi-Core test of the Cinebench 2024 benchmark uses all cpu cores to render using the Redshift rendering engine, which is also used in Maxons Cinema 4D. The benchmark run is 10 minutes long to test whether the processor is limited by its heat generation.


	Intel Processor N100 4C 4T @ 3.40 GHz	197 (100%)
	AMD Athlon Gold 7220U 2C 4T @ 3.70 GHz	0 (0%)

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.


	Intel Processor N100 4C 4T @ 3.40 GHz	821 (100%)
	AMD Athlon Gold 7220U 2C 4T @ 3.70 GHz	0 (0%)

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.


	Intel Processor N100 4C 4T @ 3.00 GHz	2269 (100%)
	AMD Athlon Gold 7220U 2C 4T @ 3.00 GHz	0 (0%)

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.


	Intel Processor N100 4C 4T @ 3.40 GHz	347 (100%)
	AMD Athlon Gold 7220U 2C 4T @ 3.70 GHz	0 (0%)

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.


	Intel Processor N100 4C 4T @ 3.00 GHz	1076 (100%)
	AMD Athlon Gold 7220U 2C 4T @ 3.00 GHz	0 (0%)

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.


	Intel Processor N100 4C 4T @ 3.00 GHz	379 (100%)
	AMD Athlon Gold 7220U 2C 4T @ 3.00 GHz	0 (0%)

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.


	Intel Processor N100 4C 4T @ 1.80 GHz	1304 (100%)
	AMD Athlon Gold 7220U 2C 4T @ 2.40 GHz	0 (0%)

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.


	Intel Processor N100 4C 4T @ 3.40 GHz	154 (100%)
	AMD Athlon Gold 7220U 2C 4T @ 3.70 GHz	0 (0%)

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.


	Intel Processor N100 4C 4T @ 3.00 GHz	477 (100%)
	AMD Athlon Gold 7220U 2C 4T @ 3.00 GHz	0 (0%)

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)

Efficiency of the processor under full load in the Cinebench R23 (multi-core) benchmark. The benchmark result is divided by the average energy required (CPU package power in watts). The higher the value, the more efficient the CPU is under full load.


	Intel Processor N100 2,269 CB R23 MC @ 10 W	227 (100%)
	AMD Athlon Gold 7220U 2.40 GHz	0 (0%)

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