Intel Core i7-5700HQ vs AMD A6-5400B. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Family
  Intel Core i7 AMD A
• Generation
  5 4
• CPU group
  Intel Core i 5000H AMD A6-5000

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
  2.70 GHz 3.60 GHz
• CPU Cores
  4 2
• Turbo (1 Core)
  3.50 GHz 3.80 GHz
• CPU Threads
  8 2
• Hyperthreading
  Yes No
• 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
  Intel HD Graphics 5600 AMD Radeon HD 7540D
• GPU frequency
  0.30 GHz 0.64 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  1.05 GHz No turbo
• Execution units
  24 3
• Shader
  192 192
• Max. GPU Memory
  16 GB 2 GB
• Max. displays
  3 2
• Generation
  8 4
• DirectX Version
  11.2 11
• Technology
  14 nm 32 nm
• Release date
  Q2/2015 Q2/2012

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD A6-5400B and Intel Core i7-5700HQ. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

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

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Core i7-5700HQ and AMD A6-5400B to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  47 W 65 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Core i7-5700HQ and Intel Core i7-5700HQ, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d AMD-V
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2 SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX
• L3-Cache
  6.00 MB 1.00 MB
• Architecture
  Broadwell H Kabini (Jaguar)
• Technology
  14 nm 28 nm
• Socket
  BGA 1364 FM2
• Release date
  Q2/2015 Q3/2012