Intel Core i7-8565U vs AMD Athlon Gold 7220U

Core i7-8565U vs Athlon Gold 7220U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-8565U is faster 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 i7-8565U 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 Athlon Gold 7220U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-8565U. Despite this, the Core i7-8565U has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 i7-8565U 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 i7-8565U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.