AMD A4-1250 vs Intel Atom Z3736F. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Family
  AMD A Intel Atom
• Generation
  7 4
• CPU group
  AMD A4-1000 Intel Atom Z3700

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
  1.00 GHz 1.33 GHz
• CPU Cores
  2 4
• Turbo (1 Core)
  No turbo 2.16 GHz
• CPU Threads
  2 4
• Hyperthreading
  No No
• Overclocking
  Yes No
• Core architecture
  normal normal

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 8210 Intel HD Graphics (Bay Trail GT1)
• GPU frequency
  0.30 GHz 0.31 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo 0.65 GHz
• Execution units
  2 4
• Shader
  128 32
• Max. GPU Memory
  2 GB 8 GB
• Max. displays
  2 2
• Generation
  5 7
• DirectX Version
  11.1 11.2
• Technology
  28 nm 22 nm
• Release date
  Q2/2013 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 Decode / Encode
• VP9
  No No
• VP8
  No No
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  Decode Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Atom Z3736F and AMD A4-1250. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR3L-1333 SO-DIMM DDR3L-1333 SO-DIMM
• Max. Memory
  2 GB
• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  2 1

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD A4-1250 and Intel Atom Z3736F to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  8 W 4 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD A4-1250 and AMD A4-1250, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  AMD-V VT-x, VT-x EPT
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, FMA3, FMA4 SSE4.1, SSE4.2
• L3-Cache
  1.00 MB 2.00 MB
• Architecture
  Temash (Jaguar) Bay Trail
• Technology
  28 nm 22 nm
• Socket
  FT3 BGA 592
• Release date
  Q2/2013 Q2/2014