| Attribute |
Intel Core i3-4030U × | 
AMD A8-5557M × |
| General Information | | |
| Brand | Intel | AMD |
| Series | Intel Core i3 | AMD A |
| Model | Intel Core i3-4030U | AMD A8-5557M |
| CPU Cores and Base Frequency | | |
| CPU Cores | 2 | 4 |
| Frequency (GHz) | 1.9 | 2.1 |
| CPU Threads | 4 | 4 |
| Core architecture | normal | normal |
| Hyperthreading | + | - |
| Overclocking | - | - |
| Turbo (1 Core) (GHz) | - | 3.1 |
| Turbo (4 Cores) (GHz) | - | 3.1 |
| Encryption | | |
| AES-NI | + | + |
| Hardware codec support | | |
| JPEG | Decode | Decode / Encode |
| h264 | Decode / Encode | Decode |
| h265 / HEVC (8 bit) | No | No |
| h265 / HEVC (10 bit) | No | No |
| VP8 | No | No |
| AV1 | No | No |
| VC-1 | Decode | Decode |
| VP9 | No | No |
| AVC | Decode / Encode | Decode |
| Internal Graphics | | |
| GPU name | Intel HD Graphics 4400 | AMD Radeon HD 8550G |
| GPU frequency (GHz) | 0.2 | 0.52 |
| GPU (Turbo) (GHz) | 1 | 0.72 |
| Generation | 7 | 5 |
| DirectX Version | 11.1 | 11 |
| Execution units | 20 | 4 |
| Shader | 160 | 256 |
| Max. GPU Memory (GB) | 2 | 2 |
| Max. displays | 3 | 2 |
| GPU Release date (year) | 2013 | 2013 |
| Memory And PCIe | | |
| Memory type | DDR3L-1333 SO-DIMMDDR3L-1600 SO-DIMMLPDDR3-1333LPDDR3-1600 | DDR3-1600 |
| Max. Memory (GB) | 16 | - |
| PCIe lanes | 12 | - |
| PCIe version | 2.0 | - |
| ECC | - | - |
| Memory channels | 2 | 2 |
| Technical details | | |
| Release date (year) | 2014 | 2013 |
| Technology (Nm) | 22 | 32 |
| Socket | BGA 1168 | FP2 |
| Virtualization | | |
| L3-Cache (MB) | 3 | 4 |
| Architecture | Haswell Refresh | Richland |
| Instruction set (ISA) | x86-64 (64 bit) | x86-64 (64 bit) |
| Thermal Management | | |
| Temp junction max (°C) | 100 | - |
| TDP (PL1) (W) | 15 | 35 |
| Benchmarks | | |
| iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS) | 320 | 369 |
| Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark | 2,774 | 2,892 |
| Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core) | 426 | 442 |
| Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core) | 954 | 1,201 |
| Cinebench R15 (Single-Core) | 65 | - |
| Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core) | 191 | - |
| Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Single-Core) | 0.76 | 0.8 |
| Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Multi-Core) | 1.95 | 1.9 |
| Geekbench 3, 64bit (Single-Core) | 1,790 | 1,591 |
| Geekbench 3, 64bit (Multi-Core) | 3,767 | 3,498 |
| Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (iGPU, OpenGL) | 12.7 | - |