Intel Core i5-6500T vs AMD Athlon Gold 7220U

Core i5-6500T vs Athlon Gold 7220U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Athlon Gold 7220U performs better than the Core i5-6500T. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-6500T in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-6500T has significantly more cores than the Athlon Gold 7220U. Indeed, the Core i5-6500T 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 i5-6500T 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 i5-6500T thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 Core i5-6500T has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.