AMD A4-4300M vs Intel Core i5-3230M. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Family
  AMD A Intel Core i5
• Generation
  2 3
• CPU group
  AMD A4-4000M Intel Core i 3000M

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
  2.50 GHz 2.60 GHz
• CPU Cores
  2 2
• Turbo (1 Core)
  3.00 GHz 3.20 GHz
• CPU Threads
  2 4
• Turbo (2 Cores)
  3.00 GHz No turbo
• Hyperthreading
  No Yes
• Overclocking
  No 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 7420G Intel HD Graphics 4000
• GPU frequency
  0.48 GHz 0.65 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  0.66 GHz 1.10 GHz
• Execution units
  2 16
• Shader
  128 128
• Max. GPU Memory
  2 GB --
• Max. displays
  2 3
• Generation
  4 7
• DirectX Version
  11 11.0
• Technology
  32 nm 22 nm
• Release date
  Q2/2012 Q1/2011

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 Core i5-3230M and AMD A4-4300M. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR3-1600 DDR3-1600
• Max. Memory
  32 GB
• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  2 2
• PCIe version
  3.0
• PCIe lanes
  16

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD A4-4300M and Intel Core i5-3230M to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  35 W 35 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD A4-4300M and AMD A4-4300M, 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, VT-d
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, FMA3, FMA4 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX
• L3-Cache
  1.00 MB 3.00 MB
• Architecture
  Trinity (Piledriver) Ivy Bridge H
• Technology
  32 nm 22 nm
• Socket
  FS1r2 BGA 1023
• Release date
  Q1/2012 Q1/2013