Intel N97 vs AMD Athlon Gold 7220U

N97 vs Athlon Gold 7220U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Athlon Gold 7220U beats the N97 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the N97 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the N97 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Athlon Gold 7220U that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Athlon Gold 7220U has a slightly higher clock speed than the N97. In terms of cache, the N97 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Athlon Gold 7220U. The N97 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. For instance, the N97 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.