Intel Core i7-4712MQ vs AMD Athlon Gold 7220U

Core i7-4712MQ vs Athlon Gold 7220U specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Athlon Gold 7220U performs better than the Core i7-4712MQ. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4712MQ in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-4712MQ has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Athlon Gold 7220U that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Athlon Gold 7220U. Our comparison shows that the Athlon Gold 7220U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4712MQ. Also, the Athlon Gold 7220U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Athlon Gold 7220U outputs less heat than Core i7-4712MQ thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Athlon Gold 7220U has more L2 cache than the Core i7-4712MQ. Despite this, the Core i7-4712MQ has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Athlon Gold 7220U.

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 i7-4712MQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.