Athlon Gold 7220C vs Pentium Silver N6000

Primary details

Comparing Pentium Silver N6000 and Athlon Gold 7220C processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking	1957	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Series	no data	AMD Mendocino (Zen 2, Ryzen 7020)
Power efficiency	30.13	no data
Architecture codename	Jasper Lake (2021)	Mendocino (Zen 2) (2022−2023)
Release date	11 January 2021 (3 years ago)	23 May 2023 (1 year ago)

Detailed specifications

Pentium Silver N6000 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	4 (Quad-Core)	2 (Dual-core)
Threads	4	4
Base clock speed	1.1 GHz	2.4 GHz
Boost clock speed	3.3 GHz	3.7 GHz
L1 cache	no data	128 KB
L2 cache	1.5 MB	1 MB
L3 cache	4 MB	4 MB
Chip lithography	10 nm	6 nm
Maximum core temperature	105 °C	no data
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	+	no data

Compatibility

Information on Pentium Silver N6000 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 configuration	1	no data
Socket	FCBGA1338	no data
Power consumption (TDP)	6 Watt	15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium Silver N6000 and Athlon Gold 7220C. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	Intel® SSE4.2	XFR, FMA3, SSE 4.2, AVX2, SMT
AES-NI	+	-
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)	+	no data
Speed Shift	+	no data
Turbo Boost Technology	-	no data
Hyper-Threading Technology	-	no data
Thermal Monitoring	+	-
GPIO	+	no data
Turbo Boost Max 3.0	-	no data

Security technologies

Pentium Silver N6000 and Athlon Gold 7220C technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT	-	no data
Identity Protection	+	-
SGX	-	no data
OS Guard	+	no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Pentium Silver N6000 and Athlon Gold 7220C are enumerated here.

VT-d	+	no data
VT-x	+	no data
EPT	+	no data

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium Silver N6000 and Athlon Gold 7220C. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types	DDR4	no data
Maximum memory size	16 GB	no data
Max memory channels	2	no data

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card Compare	Intel UHD Graphics	AMD Radeon 610M
Quick Sync Video	+	-
Graphics max frequency	850 MHz	no data
Execution Units	32	no data

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Pentium Silver N6000 and Athlon Gold 7220C integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supported	3	no data
eDP	+	no data
DisplayPort	+	-
HDMI	+	-
MIPI-DSI	+	no data

Graphics image quality

Maximum display resolutions supported by Pentium Silver N6000 and Athlon Gold 7220C integrated GPUs, including resolutions over different interfaces.

4K resolution support	+	no data
Max resolution over HDMI 1.4	4096x2160@60Hz	no data
Max resolution over DisplayPort	4096x2160@60Hz	no data

Graphics API support

APIs supported by Pentium Silver N6000 and Athlon Gold 7220C integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectX	12	no data
OpenGL	4.5	no data

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Pentium Silver N6000 and Athlon Gold 7220C.

PCI Express lanes	8	no data
USB revision	2.0/3.2	no data
Max number of SATA 6 Gb/s Ports	2	no data
Number of USB ports	14	no data
Integrated LAN	-	no data
UART	+	no data

Pros & cons summary

---

Integrated graphics card	5.58	2.85
Recency	11 January 2021	23 May 2023
Physical cores	4	2
Chip lithography	10 nm	6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	6 Watt	15 Watt

---

Should you still have questions on choice between Pentium Silver N6000 and Athlon Gold 7220C, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.

Vote for your favorite

Do you think we are right or mistaken in our choice? Vote by clicking "Like" button near your favorite CPU.

---