AMD A4-5000 CPU Review
How We Tested
Contents
During our benchmarking sessions, we used the configuration listed below. Between our benchmarking sessions, the only variable device was the CPU being tested and the motherboard, which had to be replaced to match the different CPU sockets.
In order to see if the installation of an external video card could improve the A4-5000’s performance, we repeated the test with an XFX Radeon R4 240 Core Edition video card installed and the embedded GPU disabled. We used an entry-level video card since there is no sense in installing a high-end video card with such an inexpensive system.
Hardware Configuration
- Motherboard (A4-5000): ASRock QC5000-ITX
- Motherboard (Sempron 2650): ASUS AM1M-A
- Motherboard (Celeron J1800): ASRock D1800M
- CPU Cooler: Intel/AMD stock
- Memory: 8 GiB DDR3-2133, two G.Skill Ripjaws F3-17000CL9Q-16GBZH 4 GiB memory modules configured at 1333 MHz
- Boot drive: Kingston HyperX Fury 240 GB
- Video Card: integrated
- Video Monitor: LG Flatron W1942S
- Power Supply: Seventeam ST-550P-AM
Operating System Configuration
- Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
- NTFS
- Video resolution: 1440×900 60 Hz
Driver Versions
- AMD driver version: 14.9
- Intel video driver version: 15.33.13.3408
- Intel Inf chipset driver version: 9.4.5.1006
Software Used
Error Margin
We adopted a 4% error margin. Thus, differences below 4% cannot be considered relevant. In other words, products with a performance difference below 4% should be considered as having similar performance.