Just curious though, which one is better? For laptops, AMD offerings are cheaper than Intel ones, but does it offer better performance than the Intel?

Thanks.

Too bad.. AMD going down the drain...

The Intel Core i5-5200U
Released earlier this year, Jan, 2015. A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor. A 64-bit architecture allows more RAM to be installed and accessed by the processor. 2.3x lower typical power consumption. Better performance and better turbo clock speed. Significantly lower typical power consumption. More expensive.

AMD A10-8700P
More cores on the AMD A10-8700P help to process multiple threads or applications at once. XOP instructions are enabled on this processor. These extensions are not extensively used in programs yet, however their support should improve in future apps. The A10-8700P has FMA4 instruction set extension. The FMA4 technology is only offered on AMD CPUs, and it probably will not get broad support from software vendors. The microprocessor features 33% higher memory bandwidth, which increases performance in memory bound applications. Performance gains in tasks, that are not memory-bound, will be lower.

Ivy Bridge's process is years ahead of AMD's. They put some decent heat spreaders in the package, IB could go beyond 5GHz on air cooling. Perhaps, that's the reason why Intel is more expensive. Hope this helps.

This post has been edited by DS_Legacy: Aug 25 2015, 09:12 PM

Wait, I thought the AMD A10-8700P is their latest generation AMD A series CPU?

Aiya, I see wrong. Thanks for the reminder. Will edit it now.

A good article to read

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Carrizo-in-Re...m.147654.0.html

I fall asleep reading.. so mind condense it for us... does AMD make a good fight back? ... my last PC was AMD A6(if I still remember correctly).. it was good until i7-720 come out... always hoping they giv Intel a good fight..

that amd is APU amd.... quad core if not mistaken.. starting from amd A8 series. somehow, for long run, its not that reliable. its better invest on intel/nvdia than amd for time being.

not mean bias, but looking at the current trend now, its worth to invest in intel processor. amd yes, still but not notebook.

your pc use amd a6 cant fight i5 even.. dont say i7 la... unless its amd fx.. fx is on par with i7

Total blast off lo... fx par wif clockspeed NIA.. but hot like mad.. need water cooling..

fx not par with clockspeed... and yes.. need water cooling. but if oc... not really knows if water cooling can be use or not