Phenom II X4 965 vs Athlon Gold 7220U benchmarks
According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Athlon Gold 7220U is faster than the Phenom II X4 965. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X4 965 in all gaming tests too.
In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Phenom II X4 965 has significantly more cores than the Athlon Gold 7220U. Indeed, the Phenom II X4 965 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Athlon Gold 7220U. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Phenom II X4 965 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon Gold 7220U. The info from our database shows that the Phenom II X4 965 has more L2 cache than the Athlon Gold 7220U. The Phenom II X4 965 also has significantly more L3 cache.
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. For instance, the Phenom II X4 965 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.
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