Turion II Ultra M620 vs A6-9220
Aggregate performance score
A6-9220 outperforms Turion II Ultra M620 by an impressive 61% based on our aggregate benchmark results.
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Primary details
Comparing processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.
| Place in the ranking | 2882 | 3165 |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Market segment | Laptop | Laptop |
| Series | Bristol Ridge | AMD Turion II Ultra |
| Designer | AMD | AMD |
| Architecture codename | Stoney Ridge (2016−2019) | Caspian (2009) |
| Release date | 1 June 2016 (9 years ago) | 10 September 2009 (16 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
A6-9220 and Turion II Ultra M620 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 | 2 (Dual-core) | 2 (Dual-core) |
| Threads | 2 | 2 |
| Base clock speed | 2.5 GHz | no data |
| Boost clock speed | 2.9 GHz | 2.5 GHz |
| Bus rate | no data | 3600 MHz |
| L1 cache | 160 KB | no data |
| L2 cache | 1 MB | 2 MB |
| Chip lithography | 28 nm | 45 nm |
| Die size | 124.5 mm2 | no data |
| Maximum core temperature | 90 °C | no data |
| Number of transistors | 1200 Million | no data |
| 64 bit support | + | + |
| Windows 11 compatibility | - | - |
Compatibility
Information on A6-9220 and Turion II Ultra M620 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.
| Socket | BGA | Socket S1 (s1g3) 638-pin |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 1 MB | 2 MB |
Technologies and extensions
Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by A6-9220 and Turion II Ultra M620. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
| Instruction set extensions | Virtualization, | MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, Enhanced 3DNow!, NX bit, AMD64, PowerNow!, AMD Virtualization |
| PowerNow | - | + |
Virtualization technologies
Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by A6-9220 and Turion II Ultra M620 are enumerated here.
| AMD-V | + | - |
Memory specs
Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by A6-9220 and Turion II Ultra M620. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.
| Supported memory types | DDR4 | no data |
Graphics specifications
General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.
| Integrated graphics card | AMD Radeon R4 (Stoney Ridge) ( - 655 MHz) | no data |
Synthetic benchmarks
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.
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. Other than that, Passmark measures multi-core performance.
wPrime 32
wPrime 32M is a math multi-thread processor test, which calculates square roots of first 32 million integer numbers. Its result is measured in seconds, so that the less is benchmark result, the faster the processor.
Pros & cons summary
| Performance score | 0.74 | 0.46 |
| Recency | 1 June 2016 | 10 September 2009 |
| Chip lithography | 28 nm | 45 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 1 Watt | 2 Watt |
A6-9220 has a 60.9% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 6 years, a 60.7% more advanced lithography process, and 100% lower power consumption.
The AMD A6-9220 is our recommended choice as it beats the AMD Turion II Ultra M620 in performance tests.
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