AMD Athlon II X2 220 vs AMD PRO A10-8730B

Compare AMD 2 core CPU vs AMD PRO A-Series A10 APU for Laptops 4 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

721 points

755 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1593 points

11% slightly better gaming score

1434 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

510 points

570 points

11% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

489 points

547 points

11% slightly better heavy workload score

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Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

500 points

927 points

85% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

285 points

443 points

55% significantly 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

2.81 GHz

17% slightly higher clock speed

2.4 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB

2 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,025th of 1,089

1,017th of 1,089

Family

The product line

PRO A-Series A10 APU for Laptops

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Athlon II X2 220 vs PRO A10-8730B comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the PRO A10-8730B is faster than the Athlon II X2 220. Despite this, the Athlon II X2 220 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the PRO A10-8730B has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Athlon II X2 220 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 PRO A10-8730B. In terms of cache, the PRO A10-8730B 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 Athlon II X2 220 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.