AMD A6-7310 vs AMD Athlon II X2 220

Compare AMD A6-Series APU for Laptops 4 core CPU vs AMD 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

745 points

3% slightly better overall score

721 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1404 points

1593 points

13% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

564 points

10% slightly better multitasking score

510 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

541 points

10% slightly better heavy workload score

489 points

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

627 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

611 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

231 points

329 points

42% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

596 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

500 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

227 points

285 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2 GHz

2.81 GHz

40% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

1 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,019th of 1,089

1,025th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A6-Series APU for Laptops

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3L

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

A6-7310 vs Athlon II X2 220 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the A6-7310 is faster than the Athlon II X2 220. Despite this, the Athlon II X2 220 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the A6-7310 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Athlon II X2 220 that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Athlon II X2 220. With our hardware info, we find that the Athlon II X2 220 has a slightly higher clock speed than the A6-7310. In terms of cache, the A6-7310 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Athlon II X2 220

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. For instance, the A6-7310 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.