AMD Athlon Gold 20 vs Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus
CPU Specs Compare
General Parameters
Release Date
Oct 2025
Jan 2026
Manufacturer
AMD
Intel
Type
Laptop
Laptop
Core Architecture
Mendocino
Arrow Lake
Integrated Graphics
Radeon 610M
Arc Graphics (4-Cores)
Generation
Athlon (Zen 2 (Mendocino))
Ultra 9 (Arrow Lake-HX)
Instruction Set
-
x86-64
Processor Number
-
290HX
Package
Manufacturing Process
6 nm
3 nm
Socket
AMD Socket FT6
FCBGA-2114
Power Consumption
15 W
45-55 W
Peak Operating Temperature
95°C
105 °C
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Die Size
100 mm²
243 mm²
Package
FT6
FC-BGA
Transistor Count
-
17.8 billions
Max Turbo Power Consumption
-
160 W
CPU Performance
Performance Core Base Frequency
2.4 GHz
2.7 GHz
Performance Core Turbo Frequency
3.7 GHz
5.5 GHz
Total Core Count
2
24
Total Thread Count
4
24
Bus Frequency
100 MHz
100 MHz
Multiplier
24.0
27
L1 Cache
64 KB per core
192 K per core
L2 Cache
512 KB per core
3 MB per core
L3 Cache
4 MB shared
36 MB shared
Unlocked Multiplier
No
Yes
SMP
1
1
Performance Cores
-
8
Performance Core Threads
-
8
Efficiency Cores
-
16
Efficiency Core Threads
-
16
Efficiency Core Base Frequency
-
1.8 GHz
Efficiency Core Turbo Frequency
-
4.7 GHz
Memory Parameters
Memory Types
LPDDR5-5500
DDR5-6400
Max Memory Channels
2
2
ECC Memory Support
No
No
Max Memory Size
-
256 GB
Max Memory Bandwidth
-
102.4 GB/s
Miscellaneous
Graphics Card Parameters
Integrated Graphics
-
true
GPU Base Frequency
-
300 MHz
GPU Max Dynamic Frequency
-
2000 MHz
Shader Units
-
512
Texture Units
-
32
Raster Operation Units
-
16
Execution Units
-
64
Power Consumption
-
14
📊 Benchmark
Geekbench 6
888
3,196
Geekbench 6
1,822
21,569
Cinebench R23
-
2,237
Cinebench R23
-
38,581
Cinebench 2024
-
126
Cinebench 2024
-
2,218
Passmark CPU
-
5,006
Passmark CPU
-
66,051