AMD A10-5700 vs Apple A7. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• Segment
  Desktop / Server Mobile
• Family
  AMD A Apple A series
• Generation
  2 7
• CPU group
  AMD A10-5000 Apple A7
• Successor
  -- Apple A8

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• Frequency
  3.40 GHz 1.30 GHz
• CPU Cores
  4 2
• Turbo (1 Core)
  4.00 GHz 1.40 GHz
• CPU Threads
  4 2
• Hyperthreading
  No No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• A core
  -- 2x Cyclone

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• GPU name
  AMD Radeon HD 7660D PowerVR G6430
• GPU frequency
  0.80 GHz 0.45 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo 0.45 GHz
• Execution units
  6 4
• Shader
  384 64
• Max. GPU Memory
  2 GB --
• Max. displays
  2 1
• Generation
  4
• DirectX Version
  11 10
• Technology
  32 nm 28 nm
• Release date
  Q3/2012 Q3/2013

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No No
• h264
  Decode No
• VP9
  No No
• VP8
  No No
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  Decode No
• VC-1
  Decode No
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Apple A7 and AMD A10-5700. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR3-1866 LPDDR3-1333
• Max. Memory
  1 GB
• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  2 1

• AES-NI
  Yes No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD A10-5700 and Apple A7 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  65 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD A10-5700 and AMD A10-5700, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  AMD-V None
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, FMA3, FMA4
• L2-Cache
  -- 1.00 MB
• L3-Cache
  4.00 MB 4.00 MB
• Architecture
  Trinity (Piledriver) A7
• Technology
  32 nm 28 nm
• Socket
  FM2 N/A
• Release date
  Q3/2012 Q3/2013
• Part Number
  -- S5L8960X