AMD A8-7200P vs Intel Core i5-5250U. 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
  4 5
• CPU group
  AMD A8-7000 Intel Core i 5000U

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
  2.40 GHz 1.60 GHz
• CPU Cores
  4 2
• Turbo (1 Core)
  3.30 GHz 2.70 GHz
• CPU Threads
  4 4
• 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 R5 (Kaveri) Intel HD Graphics 6000
• GPU frequency
  0.55 GHz 0.30 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  0.63 GHz 1.00 GHz
• Execution units
  4 48
• Shader
  256 384
• Max. GPU Memory
  2 GB 16 GB
• Max. displays
  2 3
• Generation
  6 8
• DirectX Version
  12 11.2
• Technology
  28 nm 14 nm
• Release date
  Q1/2014 Q1/2015

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i5-5250U and AMD A8-7200P. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR3-1866 DDR3-1866
• ECC
  Yes No
• Memory channels
  2 2
• PCIe version
  3.0 2.0
• PCIe lanes
  16 12

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD A8-7200P and Intel Core i5-5250U to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  35 W 15 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD A8-7200P and AMD A8-7200P, 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, AVX2
• L3-Cache
  4.00 MB 3.00 MB
• Architecture
  Kaveri (Steamroller) Broadwell U
• Technology
  28 nm 14 nm
• Socket
  FM2+ BGA 1168
• Release date
  Q2/2014 Q1/2015