Core i7-3612QM vs Athlon Gold 7220U comparison
Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-3612QM performs better than the Athlon Gold 7220U. 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 i7-3612QM has significantly more cores than the Athlon Gold 7220U. Indeed, the Core i7-3612QM has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Athlon Gold 7220U. It also has more threads than the Athlon Gold 7220U. With our hardware info, we find that the Athlon Gold 7220U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-3612QM. Also, the Athlon Gold 7220U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Athlon Gold 7220U outputs less heat than Core i7-3612QM 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. Indeed, the Core i7-3612QM has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.
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