Intel Core i3-7350K vs AMD Athlon Gold 7220U

Compare Intel 7th 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

1742 points
1781 points
2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3492 points
0.78% slightly better gaming score
3465 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1292 points
1333 points
3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1240 points
1279 points
3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3026 points
36% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
2215 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1496 points
42% 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

4.2 GHz
74% significantly higher clock speed
2.40 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

60 W
15 W
300% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

128 KiB
256 KiB
100% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.5 MiB
1 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB
Identical
4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

768th of 1,089
761st of 1,089

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i3
Athlon 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133
LPDDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
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Core i3-7350K vs Athlon Gold 7220U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Athlon Gold 7220U performs better than the Core i3-7350K. Despite this, the Core i3-7350K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i3-7350K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon Gold 7220U. The Athlon Gold 7220U outputs less heat than Core i3-7350K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Athlon Gold 7220U has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i3-7350K. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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 i3-7350K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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