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Should I upgrade my AMD Processor?

I have an AMD A8 4500M with Radeon HD 7640G graphics with 256 shader cores and am wondering if I should upgrade it to a A10 4600M with Radeon HD 7660G graphics with 384 shader cores. The A10 is the highest end processor currently available for the socket type (notebook-based) and would like to know if the difference between them is worth it. The A8 goes from 1.9ghz to 2.8 ghz and the A10 from 2.3ghz to 3.2 ghz. It's also supposed to have twice the gpu bandwidth of the 7640g. Both were released in May 2012.

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  • 8 years ago
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    http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+A8-450...

    http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+A10-46...

    Given these benchmarks as a starting point the difference is about 10-15%

    The answer to your question will be what will change in your use of the system with that 15%

    change. A CPU improvement rarely gives the matching system level throughput.

    The specifics of your use of the system could give most of the improvement or none of it.

    The double gnu bandwidth will only make a difference if your current use maximizes the

    Current bandwidth. There are tools measure the use of the gpu. (Sysinternals process explorer can display several gpu attributes) If your current use of is not over 50% there will be limited benefit

  • 8 years ago

    Laptops have never been designed to be upgraded.... You'll be extremely lucky if the CPU is in a socket, luckier if you get any mobile CPU cheap (not sold in any retail store), and even luckier if your BIOS will recognize any newer CPU.

    You're stuck with whatever options your laptop manufacturer offers, parts are insanely overpriced, and service is expensive (some laptops are insanely fragile and complicated to take apart).

  • 4 years ago

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