Athlon Gold 7220U vs A6-6310
Aggregate performance score
Athlon Gold 7220U outperforms A6-6310 by a whopping 182% based on our aggregate benchmark results.
Primary details
Comparing A6-6310 and Athlon Gold 7220U processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.
| Place in performance ranking | 2317 | 1552 |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Market segment | Laptop | Laptop |
| Series | AMD A-Series | Mendocino (Zen 2, Ryzen 7020) |
| Architecture codename | Beema (2014) | Mendocino (Zen 2) |
| Release date | 29 April 2014 (10 years ago) | 20 September 2022 (1 year ago) |
| Current price | $302 | no data |
Detailed specifications
A6-6310 and Athlon Gold 7220U basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of CPU speed, though for more precise assessment you have to consider their test results.
| Physical cores | 4 (Quad-Core) | 2 (Dual-core) |
| Threads | 4 | 4 |
| Base clock speed | 1.8 GHz | 2.4 GHz |
| Boost clock speed | 2.4 GHz | 3.7 GHz |
| L1 cache | no data | 64 KB (per core) |
| L2 cache | 2048 KB | 512 KB (per core) |
| L3 cache | no data | 4 MB (shared) |
| Chip lithography | 28 nm | 6 nm |
| Die size | 107 mm2 | 100 mm2 |
| Number of transistors | 930 Million | no data |
| 64 bit support | + | + |
| Windows 11 compatibility | - | no data |
| Unlocked multiplier | No | No |
Compatibility
Information on A6-6310 and Athlon Gold 7220U compatibility with other computer components: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.
| Number of CPUs in a configuration | no data | 1 |
| Socket | FT3b | FP6 |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 15 Watt | 15 Watt |
Technologies and extensions
Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by A6-6310 and Athlon Gold 7220U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
| Instruction set extensions | 86x SSE (1, 2, 3, 3S, 4.1, 4.2, 4A),-64, AES, AVX, Single-Channel DDR3L-1866 | XFR, FMA3, SSE 4.2, AVX2, SMT |
| AES-NI | + | + |
| FMA | FMA4 | no data |
| AVX | + | + |
| PowerTune | - | no data |
| TrueAudio | - | no data |
| PowerNow | + | no data |
| PowerGating | + | no data |
| Out-of-band client management | - | no data |
| VirusProtect | + | no data |
Virtualization technologies
Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by A6-6310 and Athlon Gold 7220U are enumerated here.
| AMD-V | 1 | + |
| IOMMU 2.0 | + | no data |
Memory specs
Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by A6-6310 and Athlon Gold 7220U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.
| Supported memory types | DDR3-1865 | DDR5 Dual-channel |
| Max memory channels | 1 | no data |
Graphics specifications
General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.
| Integrated graphics card Compare | AMD Radeon R4 Graphics | AMD Radeon 610M |
| Enduro | + | no data |
| Switchable graphics | 1 | no data |
| UVD | + | no data |
| VCE | + | no data |
Graphics interfaces
Available interfaces and connections of A6-6310 and Athlon Gold 7220U integrated GPUs.
| DisplayPort | + | no data |
| HDMI | + | no data |
Graphics API support
APIs supported by A6-6310 and Athlon Gold 7220U integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.
| DirectX | DirectX® 12 | no data |
| Vulkan | 1 | no data |
Peripherals
Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by A6-6310 and Athlon Gold 7220U.
| PCIe version | 2.0 | 3.0 |
| PCI Express lanes | no data | 4 |
Synthetic benchmark performance
Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
Athlon Gold 7220U outperforms A6-6310 by 182% based on our aggregate benchmark results.
Passmark
Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.
Benchmark coverage: 68%
Athlon Gold 7220U outperforms A6-6310 by 183% in Passmark.
GeekBench 5 Single-Core
GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.
Benchmark coverage: 42%
Athlon Gold 7220U outperforms A6-6310 by 396% in GeekBench 5 Single-Core.
GeekBench 5 Multi-Core
GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.
Benchmark coverage: 42%
Athlon Gold 7220U outperforms A6-6310 by 293% in GeekBench 5 Multi-Core.
Pros & cons summary
| Performance score | 1.08 | 3.05 |
| Recency | 29 April 2014 | 20 September 2022 |
| Physical cores | 4 | 2 |
| Chip lithography | 28 nm | 6 nm |
The Athlon Gold 7220U is our recommended choice as it beats the A6-6310 in performance tests.
Should you still have questions on choice between A6-6310 and Athlon Gold 7220U, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.
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