Athlon Gold 7220C vs Core 2 Duo T6400

Primary details

Comparing Core 2 Duo T6400 and Athlon Gold 7220C processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking	2940	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Series	Intel Core 2 Duo	AMD Mendocino (Zen 2, Ryzen 7020)
Power efficiency	1.24	no data
Architecture codename	Penryn (2008−2011)	Mendocino (Zen 2) (2022−2023)
Release date	1 January 2009 (15 years ago)	23 May 2023 (1 year ago)

Detailed specifications

Core 2 Duo T6400 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 cores	2 (Dual-core)	2 (Dual-core)
Threads	2	4
Base clock speed	2 GHz	2.4 GHz
Boost clock speed	2 GHz	3.7 GHz
Bus rate	800 MHz	no data
L1 cache	no data	128 KB
L2 cache	2 MB	1 MB
L3 cache	2 MB L2 Cache	4 MB
Chip lithography	45 nm	6 nm
Maximum core temperature	105 °C	no data
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	no data
VID voltage range	1V-1.25V	no data

Compatibility

Information on Core 2 Duo T6400 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.

Socket	PGA478	no data
Power consumption (TDP)	35 Watt	15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Core 2 Duo T6400 and Athlon Gold 7220C. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	no data	XFR, 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

Security technologies

Core 2 Duo T6400 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 T6400 and Athlon Gold 7220C are enumerated here.

VT-x

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no data

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card

no data

AMD Radeon 610M ( - 1900 MHz)

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	1 January 2009	23 May 2023
Threads	2	4
Chip lithography	45 nm	6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	35 Watt	15 Watt

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