Intel Core i5-3470S vs AMD Athlon Gold 7220U

Compare Intel Core 4 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

1864 points
4% slightly better overall score
1781 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3436 points
3465 points
0.84% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1423 points
6% slightly better multitasking score
1333 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1365 points
6% slightly better heavy workload score
1279 points

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1722 points
2215 points
28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

598 points
1047 points
75% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
100% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.9 GHz
20% slightly higher clock speed
2.40 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz
3.7 GHz
2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
15 W
333% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

748th of 1,089
761st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core
Athlon 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
LPDDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i5-3470S vs Athlon Gold 7220U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-3470S is faster than the Athlon Gold 7220U. Despite this, the Athlon Gold 7220U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-3470S has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Athlon Gold 7220U has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-3470S 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 i5-3470S 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 i5-3470S has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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