Ryzen 5 220: CPU benchmarks and laptop guide

The AMD Ryzen 5 220 is a 2025 entry in the Ryzen 8000 family built on the Hawk Point design — an entry-level badge on proven silicon, aimed at mainstream laptops rather than flagships. The catalog matches it to 18 models, and it meets the recommended CPU requirement in 63 of the 69 games the site tracks. This guide covers where the chip sits among laptop CPUs, what it brings to a portable, and which laptops carry it.

Where the Ryzen 5 220 sits in 2026

A catalog score of 74.1 places the chip 65th of 672 scored laptop CPUs — the top ten percent of a table that spans two decades of silicon. The neighborhood mixes badges and eras: the Core 5 120U (74.6), Ryzen 9 5900HX (74.4) and Core Ultra 5 125U (74.3) just above, the Core i7-11850H (74.1), Core i7-11800H (74) and Ryzen 5 6600H (73.9) just below. Out-ranking 2021 premium H-class Core i7s under an entry-level Ryzen 5 badge is the practical story — modern efficiency buying yesterday's flagship performance.

What the chip brings

Hawk Point is a 6-core, 12-thread design built on a 4 nm process and rated at 28 W in its P-class configuration: a 3.2 GHz base clock and up to 4.9 GHz boost. The integrated Radeon 740M runs at up to 2,800 MHz — a small GPU with a high clock, aimed at everyday media rather than gaming. In public benchmarks the chip posts 2,180 single-core and 7,311 multi-core in Geekbench, plus a PassMark overall score of 18,601. Memory support and cache details were not captured for this chip, so the table above sticks to what the catalog verifiably holds.

Games: CPU-side readiness

Measured purely as a processor, the chip clears the recommended CPU tier for 63 of 69 cataloged games — from Cyberpunk 2077, Fortnite, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Red Dead Redemption 2 and Alan Wake 2 through Counter-Strike 2, Resident Evil 4 Remake and Battlefield 5 down to the lightest esports entries. Six sit at the minimum tier: Starfield, Helldivers 2, Call of Duty: Warzone, Baldur's Gate 3, Hogwarts Legacy and Elden Ring all list the chip above their minimum but below their recommended CPU requirement. These verdicts are CPU-only — whether a game actually plays well depends on the laptop's GPU and RAM, and most of this fleet runs the small Radeon 740M rather than discrete graphics.

Laptops that carry it

The 18-model roster is one of the newest in the catalog, spanning 2025–2026: HP ProBook 4 G2ah 14 and 16 at $1,300, ThinkPad E14 Gen 7 and E16 Gen 3 at $1,144, the Dell Pro 16 and ASUS Vivobook S14 at $765, the Dell 14 Plus 2-in-1 convertible at $1,275 and the OmniBook X Flip 16 at $705 — plus one genuine gaming machine, the Lenovo LOQ 15AHP10 at $1,440. Three 2026 models — the Alienware 15, ThinkBook 16 Gen 9 and ThinkBook 14 Gen 9 — are listed without prices yet. Roster medians describe the fleet honestly: office comfort at a perfect 100, energy efficiency 87.4, mobility 73.5, portability 56.7 and a performance index of 61 — with a gaming index of 34, because the business majority runs integrated graphics.

Bottom line

The Ryzen 5 220 is more processor than its entry badge suggests: top-ten-percent ranking, 63 of 69 tracked games at recommended CPU settings, and a modern 4 nm design inside a fresh 2025–2026 fleet. It suits a buyer who wants a durable mainstream laptop that will not feel slow for years — business portables dominate the roster, and the lone LOQ gaming machine pairs the chip with real graphics. Judge gaming expectations by the specific GPU in each listing; on the CPU side, this chip rarely limits anything.