AMD A10-7300 vs Intel Core i7-5500U. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  AMD A10-7000 Intel Core i 5000U
• Family
  AMD A Intel Core i7
• Generation
  4 5
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

• Base Frequency
  1.9 GHz 2.4 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  4 2
• CPU Threads
  4 4
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No Yes
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  3.2 GHz 3 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (4 Cores)
  2.7 GHz -
• Turbo Frequency (2 Cores)
  - 2.9 GHz

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

• DirectX Version
  12 11.2
• Execution units
  6 24
• Generation
  6 8
• GPU Frequency
  460 MHz 300 MHz
• GPU name
  AMD Radeon R6 (Kaveri) Intel HD Graphics 5500
• GPU Turbo
  530 MHz 950 MHz
• Max. displays
  2 3
• Max. GPU Memory
  2 GB 16 GB
• Release date
  Q2/2015 Q1/2015
• Shader
  384 192
• Technology
  28 nm 14 nm

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

• AV1
  No No
• H.264 / AVC
  Conflicting source values: Decode | Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No No
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode
• VP8
  No Decode
• VP9
  No No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i7-5500U and AMD A10-7300. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  DDR3-1600 DDR3-1600
• PCIe lanes
  - 12
• PCIe version
  - 2.0

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD A10-7300 and Intel Core i7-5500U Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  19 W 15 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD A10-7300 and Intel Core i7-5500U, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Kaveri (Steamroller) Broadwell U
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, FMA3, FMA4 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• L3-Cache
  4 MB 4 MB
• Release date
  Q2/2014 Q1/2015
• Socket
  FM2+ BGA 1168
• Technology
  28 nm 14 nm
• Virtualization
  AMD-V VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d