Athlon Gold 7220C vs Pentium M 780

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Primary details

Comparing Pentium M 780 and Athlon Gold 7220C processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

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Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesPentium MAMD Mendocino (Zen 2, Ryzen 7020)
Architecture codenameDothan (2004−2005)Mendocino (Zen 2) (2022−2023)
Release date25 July 2005 (19 years ago)23 May 2023 (1 year ago)

Detailed specifications

Pentium M 780 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 cores1 (Single-Core)2 (Dual-core)
Threads14
Base clock speed2.26 GHz2.4 GHz
Boost clock speed0.03 GHz3.7 GHz
Bus rate533 MHzno data
L1 cache32 KB128 KB
L2 cache2 MB1 MB
L3 cache0 KB4 MB
Chip lithography90 nm6 nm
Die size87 mm2no data
Maximum core temperature100 °Cno data
Number of transistors144 millionno data
64 bit support-+
Windows 11 compatibility-no data
VID voltage range1.26V-1.404Vno data

Compatibility

Information on Pentium M 780 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.

Number of CPUs in a configuration1no data
SocketPPGA478, H-PBGA479no data
Power consumption (TDP)27 Watt15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium M 780 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
Idle States-no data
Demand Based Switching-no data
PAE32 Bitno data
FSB parity-no data

Security technologies

Pentium M 780 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 Pentium M 780 and Athlon Gold 7220C are enumerated here.

VT-x-no data

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium M 780 and Athlon Gold 7220C. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR2no data

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardOn certain motherboards (Chipset feature)AMD Radeon 610M

Pros & cons summary


Recency 25 July 2005 23 May 2023
Physical cores 1 2
Threads 1 4
Chip lithography 90 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 27 Watt 15 Watt

Athlon Gold 7220C has an age advantage of 17 years, 100% more physical cores and 300% more threads, a 1400% more advanced lithography process, and 80% lower power consumption.

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