Two laptop CPUs

STRMfrmXMN · February 23, 2015

I'm looking at replacing my laptop I have now. The current laptop I have is this Lenovo S210. I need something with a bigger screen, better battery life and a huge bonus would be a more powerful CPU. The Pentium doesn't do multithreaded stuff too well.

If you want to know the computer I'm looking at, it's this HP laptop that I do like quite a lot (ignore the "gaming" in the title.....). It would pretty much be a sealed deal if the A10 4600m in it were more powerful than the Pentium 2127U in my laptop now. Different sites report different performance between the two though so I want to check with people here. I know that the multithreaded performance on the A10 is better but per-core would be nice to know as well.

Thanks!

Gofspar · February 23, 2015

My moms laptop has a A10 in it and it actually kicks ass.

Theguywhobea · February 23, 2015

Definitely would be better than your old CPU

Bussinateur · February 23, 2015

Hate to be the one who combines AMD with heat issues, but I wouldn't recommend going AMD on a laptop.

AMD on desktop is completely fine since power draw is less important, and heat can be easily dissipated with case fans.

On laptops, power draw can mean less battery life, and heat can mean thermal throttling.

But to answer your question, the AMD processor is slightly better than the Pentium in terms of performance

harrynowl · February 23, 2015

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Max TDP of the 4600M is 35W, which is higher than the Pentium at 17W but that thing is designed to be low power (hence the U). A mainstream i3 or i5 solution from Intel is typically 35W.

The AMD and Pentium are close in CPU (AMD slightly faster when using all cores) but the 4600Ms graphics will destroy the Pentium.