Intel Core i7-4720HQ vs AMD Athlon Gold 7220U

Core i7-4720HQ vs Athlon Gold 7220U benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-4720HQ performs better than the Athlon Gold 7220U. Despite this, the Athlon Gold 7220U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-4720HQ 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. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-4720HQ has a slightly higher clock speed than 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 i7-4720HQ thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Core i7-4720HQ also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i7-4720HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.