A6 6310 or i3 3110?

[Tommynew]

What do you think?
Thank you.

 

[zeyuanfu]

I would have to say the i3 as it`s far stronger than the APU. If you can, though, try to get Haswell as it`s the latest tech.

 

[boosted1g]

For gaming i3+GPU is much better then A6, for anything but gaming i3 is better then the A6.

I would strongly urge you no to go down the APU road. The cpus in the APU lineup are not very good, the gpu in them is of course better then intel integrated graphics but the cpu is just not going to perform. Worst off if you upgrade to the best cpu in the entire fm2 product line, you are still going to be bottlenecked by any medium end graphics card.
In short the A6/8/10 cpus are just not good cpus and make fo ra horrible upgrade path.

 

[Tommynew]

Sorry i guess i didnt write much information xd.
Im talking about laptops and no gaming pc, only general purpose.
Thank you again.

 

[boosted1g]

i3 by a mile.

 

[TheMagicalWallaby]

The i3 will be MUCH better when it comes to laptop performance.

 

[Bhavneet Pannu]

i3 but i would get the 4th gen or even a unlocked pentium. Since the pentium beats the a6 by a lot.

 

[Tommynew]

I forgot one thing, but i think you can suppose.
I3 is 3110M.
But i think that the aswer will be the same.
And what about i3 "U" version cpus for new laptops, the are better that a6?

 

[Bhavneet Pannu]

Ohh Laptops. Sorry i can't help you.

 

[Zircoben]

I forgot one thing, but i think you can suppose.
I3 is 3110M.
But i think that the aswer will be the same.
And what about i3 "U" version cpus for new laptops, the are better that a6?

Look at these synthetic benchmarks.

A6: http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+A6-6310+APU+with+AMD+Radeon+R4+Graphics
i3: http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i3-3110M+%40+2.40GHz

As you can see, the single thread rating on the i3 is nearly 50% more, and that is very significant. However, it uses over double the electricity, at least looking at the TDP. Make sure the battery is larger and the battery is good on that machine.

The -U CPUs, like the i5-3217U, are extra low power versions.

Here's the i3-3217U: http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i3-3217U+%40+1.80GHz

As you can see, the i3-U CPU performs about the same as the AMD A6, but the A6 is a quad core, so I would recommend the AMD CPU between those two.

Battery life will also be similar because the AMD CPU has a slightly lower TDP, but I doubt there is much difference.

Hope that helps