AMD Quad-Core A6 or Intel Core i3

[LynxGhee]

Hello so im looking to buy a laptop, between:
Toshiba Satellite
Intel® Core™ i3-4005U
1.7 GHz
1TB SATA (5400rpm)
8GB DDR3L (1600Mhz)
15.6" HD Widescreen
Intel® HD4400 Graphics

Or

Acer Aspire
15.6" WXGA Acer Cinecrystal™ LED LCD
AMD Quad-Core Processor A6-7310
8 GB DDR3 Low Voltage Memory
1000 GB HDD
2GB AMD Radeon R5 M335
Windows 8.1 64-bit

Mostly for gaming and university reports

Thank you

 

[clutchc]

Probably the AMD chip for better performance overall: http/www.cpu-world.com/Compare/332/AMD_A6-Series_for_Notebooks_A6-7310_vs_Intel_Core_i3_Mobile_i3-4005U.html

This is a good site for comparing laptop processors and gfx cards: http/www.notebookcheck.net/

 

[zephyrrct]

The A6 will give you better gaming performance, the i3 will get you better battery life.

 

[LynxGhee]

thanks for answers, what about AMD A10-5750 compared to Intel Core i5-5200

 

[negusp]

Not to reopen old wounds, but the i3 you describe will provide far better performance in terms of raw CPU power.

However, that AMD Acer you posted has a dedicated GPU. In games that are GPU-intensive, the Acer would be far better.
It seems like you want to do gaming, so that would be the one to go for.
However, for CPU-intensive games such as CS:GO, the i3 would be, by far, the better option.

The i3 would also give a far better battery life. That Acer probably has very poor battery life due to the dedicated GPU+inefficient CPU.

As a matter of fact the i3 should be better than even a top-model A10, such as the A10-5750m , at least in single-core performance. In multi-threaded applications the A10 would be superior.

Regarding the AMD A10-5750 vs. i5-5200 the i5 is most definitely superior in all aspects of CPU performance. Even GPU performance should be similar given that the HD 5500 gets 2 sticks o' RAM.