Intel Core i7-6920HQ vs AMD Athlon Gold 7220U

Core i7-6920HQ vs Athlon Gold 7220U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Athlon Gold 7220U is faster than the Core i7-6920HQ. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6920HQ in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-6920HQ has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Athlon Gold 7220U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Athlon Gold 7220U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-6920HQ has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon Gold 7220U. Also, the Core i7-6920HQ has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Athlon Gold 7220U outputs less heat than Core i7-6920HQ thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-6920HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.