Intel Core i3-1115G4 vs AMD Athlon Gold 7220U

Compare Intel 11th Generation Core i3 2 core CPU vs AMD Athlon 7000 Series 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

1829 points
2% slightly better overall score
1781 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3698 points
6% slightly better gaming score
3465 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1348 points
1% slightly better multitasking score
1333 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1293 points
1% slightly better heavy workload score
1279 points

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3077 points
38% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
2215 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1579 points
50% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1047 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
Identical
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.00 GHz
24% slightly higher clock speed
2.40 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz
10% slightly higher turbo speed
3.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

28 W
15 W
86% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

192 KiB
256 KiB
33% slightly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2.5 MiB
150% significantly more L2 cache
1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

6 MiB
49% significantly more L3 cache
4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

755th of 1,089
761st of 1,089

Family

The product line

11th Generation Core i3
Athlon 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 August
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
LPDDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i3-1115G4 vs Athlon Gold 7220U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-1115G4 performs better than the Athlon Gold 7220U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon Gold 7220U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-1115G4 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Athlon Gold 7220U. Also, the Core i3-1115G4 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Athlon Gold 7220U outputs less heat than Core i3-1115G4 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core i3-1115G4 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Athlon Gold 7220U. The Core i3-1115G4 also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i3-1115G4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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