Athlon Gold 7220C vs Core 2 Duo T5870

Primary details

Comparing Core 2 Duo T5870 and Athlon Gold 7220C processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking2958not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesIntel Core 2 DuoAMD Mendocino (Zen 2, Ryzen 7020)
Power efficiency1.22no data
Architecture codenameMerom (2006−2008)Mendocino (Zen 2) (2022−2023)
Release date1 October 2008 (16 years ago)23 May 2023 (1 year ago)

Detailed specifications

Core 2 Duo T5870 and Athlon Gold 7220C 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 cores2 (Dual-core)2 (Dual-core)
Threads24
Base clock speed2 GHz2.4 GHz
Boost clock speed2 GHz3.7 GHz
Bus rate800 MHzno data
L1 cacheno data128 KB
L2 cache2 MB1 MB
L3 cache2 MB L2 Cache4 MB
Chip lithography65 nm6 nm
Die size143 mm2no data
Maximum core temperature100 °Cno data
Number of transistors291 Millionno data
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility-no data
VID voltage range1.075V-1.175Vno data

Compatibility

Information on Core 2 Duo T5870 and Athlon Gold 7220C 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.

Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Core 2 Duo T5870 and Athlon Gold 7220C. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsno dataXFR, FMA3, SSE 4.2, AVX2, SMT
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)+no data
Turbo Boost Technology-no data
Hyper-Threading Technology-no data
Demand Based Switching-no data
FSB parity-no data

Security technologies

Core 2 Duo T5870 and Athlon Gold 7220C technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT-no data
EDB+no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Core 2 Duo T5870 and Athlon Gold 7220C are enumerated here.

VT-x-no data

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardno dataAMD Radeon 610M ( - 1900 MHz)

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 October 2008 23 May 2023
Threads 2 4
Chip lithography 65 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 15 Watt

Athlon Gold 7220C has an age advantage of 14 years, 100% more threads, a 983.3% more advanced lithography process, and 133.3% lower power consumption.

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