AMD A4-5000 vs Intel Pentium 987

AMD A4-5000
AMD Socket FT3MOBILE
1500 MHz / Cores: 4 / May 2013
AMD A4-5000
Intel Pentium 987
Intel BGA1023MOBILE
1500 MHz / Cores: 2 / Feb 2013
Intel Pentium 987

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • AMD A4-5000
    180%
  • Intel Pentium 987
    100%

Relative performance

Single thread performance index

  • AMD A4-5000
    100%
  • Intel Pentium 987
    136%

Relative performance

Multi thread performance index

  • AMD A4-5000
    238%
  • Intel Pentium 987
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider AMD A4-5000

Much higher multi threaded performance (around 138% higher). This allows for higher performance in professional applications like encoding or heavy multitasking.
Around 80% higher average synthetic performance.

Reasons to consider Intel Pentium 987

Much higher single threaded performance (around 36% higher), makes a noticeable performance difference in gaming and the majority of applications.

AMD A4-5000

Gaming

HWBench recommends AMD A4-5000

Based on game and synthetic benchmarks, and theoretical specifications.

AMD A4-5000

Productivity

HWBench recommends AMD A4-5000

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


Specifications

Features

AMD A4-5000Intel Pentium 987
MMX
3DNow!
SSE
SSE2
SSE3
SSE4A
SSE4.1
SSE4.2
AVX
AES
F16C
BMI1
AMD64
CnQ
NX bit
AMD-V
SSSE3
Enhanced Intel SpeedStep Technology (EIST)
Intel 64
XD bit (an NX bit implementation)
Smart Cache.

Architecture

AMD A4-5000Intel Pentium 987
ArchitectureAMD JaguarvsIntel_SandyBridge
MarketMobilevsMobile
Memory SupportDDR3vsDDR3
CodenameKabinivsSandy Bridge
Release DateMay 2013vsFeb 2013

Cores

AMD A4-5000Intel Pentium 987
Cores4vs2
Threads4vs2
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsRadeon HD 8330vsIntel HD (Sandy Bridge)

Cache

AMD A4-5000Intel Pentium 987
L1 Cache128 KB (per core)vs64 KB (per core)
L2 Cache512 KB (per core)vs256 KB (per core)
L3 Cache0 KBvs2048 KB (shared)

Physical

AMD A4-5000Intel Pentium 987
SocketAMD Socket FT3vsIntel BGA1023
Max Case Temp90°Cvsunknown
PackageBGA2vsrPGA
Die Size246mm²vs131mm²
Process32 nmvs32 nm

Performance

AMD A4-5000Intel Pentium 987
Cpu Frequency1500 MHzvs1500 MHz
Turbo Clocknonevsnone
Base Clock100 MHzvs100 MHz
Voltage1.475 Vvsunknown
TDP15 Wvs17 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • AMD A4-5000
    1500 points
  • Intel Pentium 987
    1500 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • AMD A4-5000
    6000 points
  • Intel Pentium 987
    3000 points

Points - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

GeekBench 3 (32-bit Multi Core)

  • AMD A4-5000
    2478
  • Intel Pentium 987
    1759

points - higher is better

GeekBench 3 (64-bit Single Core)

  • AMD A4-5000
    896
  • Intel Pentium 987
    1118

points - higher is better

GeekBench 3 (64-bit Multi Core)

  • AMD A4-5000
    2771
  • Intel Pentium 987
    1881

points - higher is better

GeekBench 3 (32-bit Single Core)

  • AMD A4-5000
    809
  • Intel Pentium 987
    1060

points - higher is better

3DMark06 CPU

  • AMD A4-5000
    2038.5
  • Intel Pentium 987
    1487

points - higher is better

Cinebench R11.5 CPU Single 64Bit

  • AMD A4-5000
    0.39
  • Intel Pentium 987
    0.59

points - higher is better

Cinebench R11.5 64Bit

  • AMD A4-5000
    1.48
  • Intel Pentium 987
    1.13

points - higher is better

SuperPI 1M

  • AMD A4-5000
    41.38
  • Intel Pentium 987
    26

seconds - lower is better

wPrime 32

  • AMD A4-5000
    38.2
  • Intel Pentium 987
    48

seconds - lower is better

WinRAR 4.0

  • AMD A4-5000
    1078
  • Intel Pentium 987
    1107

MB/s - higher is better

TrueCrypt AES

  • AMD A4-5000
    0.92
  • Intel Pentium 987
    0.1

GB/s

TrueCrypt Twofish

  • AMD A4-5000
    0.17
  • Intel Pentium 987
    0.08

GB/s