AMD A6-5350M vs Intel Pentium 3556U

AMD A6-5350M
AMD Socket FS1r2MOBILE
2900 MHz / Cores: 2 / Jun 2013
AMD A6-5350M
Intel Pentium 3556U
Intel BGA1168MOBILE
1700 MHz / Cores: 2 / Sep 2013
Intel Pentium 3556U

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • AMD A6-5350M
    123%
  • Intel Pentium 3556U
    100%

Relative performance

Single thread performance index

  • AMD A6-5350M
    100%
  • Intel Pentium 3556U
    106%

Relative performance

Multi thread performance index

  • AMD A6-5350M
    139%
  • Intel Pentium 3556U
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider AMD A6-5350M

Much higher multi threaded performance (around 39% higher). This allows for higher performance in professional applications like encoding or heavy multitasking.

Reasons to consider Intel Pentium 3556U

6% higher single threaded performance.

No winner

Gaming

No clear winner declared


AMD A6-5350M

Productivity

HWBench recommends AMD A6-5350M

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


Specifications

Features

AMD A6-5350MIntel Pentium 3556U
MMX
3DNow!
SSE
SSE2
SSE3
SSE4A
AMD64
CnQ
NX bit
AMD-V
SSSE3
SSE4.1
SSE4.2
EIST
64-bit
XD bit
VT-x
Smart Cache

Architecture

AMD A6-5350MIntel Pentium 3556U
ArchitectureAMD PiledrivervsIntel_Haswell
MarketMobilevsMobile
Memory SupportDDR3vsDDR3
CodenameRichlandvsHaswell
Release DateJun 2013vsSep 2013

Cores

AMD A6-5350MIntel Pentium 3556U
Cores2vs2
Threads2vs2
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsRadeon HD 8450GvsIntel HD

Cache

AMD A6-5350MIntel Pentium 3556U
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 A6-5350MIntel Pentium 3556U
SocketAMD Socket FS1r2vsIntel BGA1168
Max Case Temp71°Cvs105°C
PackageuPGAvsFC-BGA1168
Die Size246mm²vs118mm²
Process32 nmvs22 nm

Performance

AMD A6-5350MIntel Pentium 3556U
Cpu Frequency2900 MHzvs1700 MHz
Turbo Clock3500 MHzvsnone
Base Clock100 MHzvs100 MHz
Voltage1.475 Vvsunknown
TDP35 Wvs15 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • AMD A6-5350M
    2135 points
  • Intel Pentium 3556U
    1904 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • AMD A6-5350M
    2901 points
  • Intel Pentium 3556U
    3808 points

Points - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

GeekBench 3 (32-bit Multi Core)

  • AMD A6-5350M
    2176
  • Intel Pentium 3556U
    2450

points - higher is better

GeekBench 3 (32-bit Single Core)

  • AMD A6-5350M
    1449
  • Intel Pentium 3556U
    1413

points - higher is better

3DMark06 CPU

  • AMD A6-5350M
    1649
  • Intel Pentium 3556U
    1939

points - higher is better

Cinebench R10 32Bit Single

  • AMD A6-5350M
    2480.5
  • Intel Pentium 3556U
    2515

points - higher is better

Cinebench R10 32Bit Multi

  • AMD A6-5350M
    3956
  • Intel Pentium 3556U
    4854

points - higher is better

Cinebench R11.5 CPU Single 64Bit

  • AMD A6-5350M
    0.75
  • Intel Pentium 3556U
    0.75

points - higher is better

Cinebench R11.5 64Bit

  • AMD A6-5350M
    1.24
  • Intel Pentium 3556U
    1.43

points - higher is better

Cinebench R15 CPU Single 64Bit

  • AMD A6-5350M
    63.5
  • Intel Pentium 3556U
    65.5

points - higher is better

Cinebench R15 CPU Multi 64Bit

  • AMD A6-5350M
    117.5
  • Intel Pentium 3556U
    125.5

points - higher is better

SuperPI 1M

  • AMD A6-5350M
    29.04
  • Intel Pentium 3556U
    22.45

seconds - lower is better

wPrime 32

  • AMD A6-5350M
    40.86
  • Intel Pentium 3556U
    46.23

seconds - lower is better

WinRAR 4.0

  • AMD A6-5350M
    1169
  • Intel Pentium 3556U
    1190

MB/s - higher is better

x264 Pass 1

  • AMD A6-5350M
    43.38
  • Intel Pentium 3556U
    49.2

FPS - higher is better

x264 Pass 2

  • AMD A6-5350M
    8.23
  • Intel Pentium 3556U
    9.1

FPS - higher is better

TrueCrypt AES

  • AMD A6-5350M
    0.81
  • Intel Pentium 3556U
    0.15

GB/s

TrueCrypt Twofish

  • AMD A6-5350M
    0.16
  • Intel Pentium 3556U
    0.12

GB/s

TrueCrypt Serpent

  • AMD A6-5350M
    0.09
  • Intel Pentium 3556U
    0.07

GB/s