Xeon E5-620 vs Athlon Gold 7220U specs and performance
In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-620 beats the Athlon Gold 7220U in overall performance. Despite this, the Athlon Gold 7220U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.
When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-620 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. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-620 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon Gold 7220U. Despite this, the Athlon Gold 7220U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Athlon Gold 7220U outputs less heat than Xeon E5-620 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Athlon Gold 7220U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon E5-620. The Athlon Gold 7220U 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 Xeon E5-620 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.
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