AMD A6-5200 vs Intel Celeron 2955U. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Family
  AMD A Intel Celeron
• Generation
  4 4
• CPU group
  AMD A6-5000 Intel Celeron 2000

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
  2.80 GHz 1.40 GHz
• CPU Cores
  4 2
• Turbo (1 Core)
  No turbo No turbo
• CPU Threads
  4 2
• 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 8400 Intel HD Graphics (Haswell GT1)
• GPU frequency
  0.60 GHz 0.20 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo 1.00 GHz
• Execution units
  2 10
• Shader
  128 80
• Max. GPU Memory
  2 GB --
• Max. displays
  2 3
• Generation
  5 7.5
• DirectX Version
  11.1 11.1
• Technology
  28 nm 22 nm
• Release date
  Q2/2013 Q4/2012

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 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 Celeron 2955U and AMD A6-5200. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR3L-1600 SO-DIMM DDR3L-1600 SO-DIMM
• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  2 2
• PCIe version
  2.0
• PCIe lanes
  10

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD A6-5200 and Intel Celeron 2955U to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  25 W 15 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD A6-5200 and AMD A6-5200, 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 SSE4.1, SSE4.2
• L3-Cache
  2.00 MB 2.00 MB
• Architecture
  Kabini (Jaguar) Haswell U
• Technology
  28 nm 22 nm
• Socket
  N/A BGA 1168
• Release date
  Q3/2013 Q3/2013