AMD A8-7100 vs AMD A4-3330MX. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Family
  AMD A AMD A
• Generation
  4 1
• CPU group
  AMD A8-7000 AMD A4-3000M

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
  1.80 GHz 2.20 GHz
• CPU Cores
  4 2
• Turbo (1 Core)
  3.00 GHz 2.60 GHz
• CPU Threads
  4 2
• Hyperthreading
  No No
• Overclocking
  No Yes
• 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 R5 (Kaveri) AMD Radeon HD 6480G
• GPU frequency
  0.45 GHz 0.44 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  0.51 GHz No turbo
• Execution units
  4 3
• Shader
  256 240
• Max. GPU Memory
  2 GB 1 GB
• Max. displays
  2 2
• Generation
  6 3
• DirectX Version
  12 11
• Technology
  28 nm 32 nm
• Release date
  Q1/2014 Q2/2011

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
• VP9
  No No
• VP8
  No No
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  Decode Decode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD A4-3330MX and AMD A8-7100. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR3-1600 DDR3-1600
• ECC
  Yes No
• Memory channels
  2 2
• PCIe version
  3.0
• PCIe lanes
  16

• AES-NI
  Yes No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD A8-7100 and AMD A4-3330MX to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  19 W 45 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD A8-7100 and AMD A8-7100, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  AMD-V AMD-V
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, FMA3, FMA4 SSE3, SSE4a
• L3-Cache
  4.00 MB 2.00 MB
• Architecture
  Kaveri (Steamroller) Llano (K10)
• Technology
  28 nm 32 nm
• Socket
  FM2+ FS1
• Release date
  Q2/2014 Q4/2011