AMD Phenom II X4 980 vs AMD Athlon Gold 7220U

Phenom II X4 980 vs Athlon Gold 7220U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Phenom II X4 980 beats the Athlon Gold 7220U in overall performance. Despite this, the Athlon Gold 7220U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Phenom II X4 980 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Athlon Gold 7220U has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Phenom II X4 980 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Athlon Gold 7220U. In terms of cache, the Phenom II X4 980 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Athlon Gold 7220U. The Phenom II X4 980 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 Phenom II X4 980 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.