Intel Core i5-2320 vs AMD Athlon Gold 7220U

Core i5-2320 vs Athlon Gold 7220U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-2320 beats the Athlon Gold 7220U in overall performance. Despite this, the Athlon Gold 7220U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-2320 has significantly more cores than the Athlon Gold 7220U. Indeed, the Core i5-2320 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Athlon Gold 7220U. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-2320 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon Gold 7220U. Despite this, the Athlon Gold 7220U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Athlon Gold 7220U outputs less heat than Core i5-2320 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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. For instance, the Core i5-2320 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.