AMD A4-3300M vs Intel Core i3-3217U

AMD A4-3300M
AMD Socket FS1MOBILE
1900 MHz / Cores: 2 / Jun 2011
AMD A4-3300M
Intel Core i3-3217U
Intel BGA1023MOBILE
1800 MHz / Cores: 2 / Jun 2012
Intel Core i3-3217U

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • AMD A4-3300M
    100%
  • Intel Core i3-3217U
    144%

Relative performance

Single thread performance index

  • AMD A4-3300M
    100%
  • Intel Core i3-3217U
    140%

Relative performance

Multi thread performance index

  • AMD A4-3300M
    100%
  • Intel Core i3-3217U
    145%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider AMD A4-3300M

None

Reasons to consider Intel Core i3-3217U

Much higher single threaded performance (around 40% higher), makes a noticeable performance difference in gaming and the majority of applications.
Much higher multi threaded performance (around 45% higher). This allows for higher performance in professional applications like encoding or heavy multitasking.
Around 44% higher average synthetic performance.

Intel Core i3-3217U

Gaming

HWBench recommends Intel Core i3-3217U

Based on game and synthetic benchmarks, and theoretical specifications.

Intel Core i3-3217U

Productivity

HWBench recommends Intel Core i3-3217U

Based on productivity benchmarks, overall multithreaded performance and theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Features

AMD A4-3300MIntel Core i3-3217U
MMX
3DNow!
SSE
SSE2
SSE3
SSE4A
AMD64
Power Now!
NX bit
AMD-V
SSSE3
SSE4.2
AVX
EIST
Intel 64
Hyper-Threading
XD bit
VT-x

Architecture

AMD A4-3300MIntel Core i3-3217U
ArchitectureAMD LLanovsIntel_IvyBridge
MarketMobilevsMobile
Memory SupportDDR3vsunknown
CodenameLlanovsIvy Bridge
Release DateJun 2011vsJun 2012

Cores

AMD A4-3300MIntel Core i3-3217U
Cores2vs2
Threads2vs4
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsRadeon HD 6480GvsIntel HD 4000

Cache

AMD A4-3300MIntel Core i3-3217U
L1 Cache128 KB (per core)vs64 KB (per core)
L2 Cache1024 KB (per core)vs256 KB (per core)
L3 Cache0 KBvs3072 KB (shared)

Physical

AMD A4-3300MIntel Core i3-3217U
SocketAMD Socket FS1vsIntel BGA1023
Max Case Tempunknownvsunknown
PackageuPGAvsFC-BGA12F
Die Size228mm²vs118mm²
Process32 nmvs22 nm

Performance

AMD A4-3300MIntel Core i3-3217U
Cpu Frequency1900 MHzvs1800 MHz
Turbo Clock2500 MHzvsnone
Base Clock100 MHzvs100 MHz
Voltage1.4125 Vvsunknown
TDP35 Wvs17 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • AMD A4-3300M
    2500 points
  • Intel Core i3-3217U
    1854 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • AMD A4-3300M
    3800 points
  • Intel Core i3-3217U
    4449 points

Points - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark06 CPU

  • AMD A4-3300M
    1556
  • Intel Core i3-3217U
    2229

points - higher is better

Cinebench R10 32Bit Single

  • AMD A4-3300M
    1741.5
  • Intel Core i3-3217U
    2476.5

points - higher is better

Cinebench R10 32Bit Multi

  • AMD A4-3300M
    3417
  • Intel Core i3-3217U
    5393.5

points - higher is better

Cinebench R11.5 64Bit

  • AMD A4-3300M
    1.12
  • Intel Core i3-3217U
    1.78

points - higher is better

SuperPI 1M

  • AMD A4-3300M
    35.05
  • Intel Core i3-3217U
    21.14

seconds - lower is better

wPrime 32

  • AMD A4-3300M
    40.2
  • Intel Core i3-3217U
    30.76

seconds - lower is better