Hey guys, how's it going? So in this video we are taking the top-performing
Acer Aspire 5 laptop part by the Intel processor and one by AMD processor and
we are going to pit these two guys against each other so on one hand we
have the 10th generation Intel Core i5 huddle and on the other hand we have the
AMD risin 7 model so which one of these two is going to come out on the top
let's find out so both Intel and AMD configuration of
aspire 5 cell for the same exact price at the time of making this video
it was $650 but the price tends to fluctuate so please check the link that
I have put in the description below to find the latest price on Amazon ok so
here is a chart showing the key features of aspire 5 laptop with this flagship
intel and AMD configuration so what I have done is that I have highlighted the
similarities in blue color and the differences in dark red color so the
Intel model of aspire 5 it comes with Core i5 1 0 2 1 0 you processor and this
is the tenth generation CPU from the comet-like family
AMD model on the other hand it comes with Rison seven three seven zero zero
you processor so note that the 10th generation Intel chip this was launched
at the end of 2019 third quarter of 2019 while the AMD chip
was launched somewhere in the you know beginning of 2019 so technically the
Intel chip is relatively newer to the AMD chip so both these CPUs they have
four cores and eight threads and both these CPUs operate at the same TDP so
that's the 15 watt thermal envelope Rison processor has a faster base clock
frequency than the Core i5 processor but then the Core i5 processor has the
faster turbo clock frequency another difference is that the core i5 has more
cash than the AMD Rison model so how does all this translate to real-world
performance so for that let's take a look at the CPU benchmark so here is a
single thread benchmark from passmark Software Core i5 scores
2314 points as opposed to isin 7 which is coarse 1,842 points so that
translates to a whopping 25 point six percent single thread performance lead
by Intel now let's take a closer look at the multi-threaded benchmark so this
benchmark should give us a better idea of the overall performance of both these
CPU so Intel Core i5 it is a scoring eight thousand four hundred and sixty
six points while the Rison seven scores eight thousand six points so we can
clearly see that you know the Intel model is ahead but not by much it's
about five point seven percent faster than AMD so that means AMD has
significantly narrowed the gap in multi-threaded performance you know
benchmark now what is the reason for this so the main reason why the Intel
chip is performing better in single threaded
test is because it has a higher IPC IP C stands for instruction per cycle and a
higher value suggest that the CPU can do more work for the same clock frequency
so that's why even though AMD Rison has a higher base clock frequency it's the
core i5 which is able to deliver better performance now note that in addition to
better IPC Intel Core i5 also has a higher turbo clock frequency so this
allows the Intel processor to automatically overclock all the way up
to 4.2 gigahertz and therefore it delivers better performance in short
bursts of time but you know when you are running all the four cores and eight
threads and you are cranking all these cores and threads at full load then both
these CPUs perform at almost the same level so overall in my opinion I think
Intel Core 5 is definitely a better CPU choice since both these laptop cost the
same money $650 my recommendation will be to go with the Intel CPU if you are
looking for you know the top performance but you know CPU is only one side of the
story graphics performance and the system Ram
also play a key role in the overall performance of the laptop the AMD model
of aspire 5 it comes with radeon RX vega 10 mobile graphics intel model on the
other hand it comes with the nvidia geforce MX 250 graphics and this has two
gig of dedicated video ram and because of this dedicated video ram it's a far
better GPU than AMD so let's look at g 3d graphics benchmark intel model with
nvidia gpus course 2600 8 points while the AMD models course only 1664 points
so that's a whopping 56.7% performance lead by the geforce MX 250 over radio on
RX you make a 10 so you know for gaming I think it's a no brainer you have to go
with the Intel model because it has not only got the faster CPU but it has got
you know as significantly faster GPU so that was for gamers but what about
non-gamers does it make sense to buy aspire 5 with the rise in chip in any
other circumstances so you know to answer that question we have to take a
look at some of the other key differences between the Intel and AMD
model so the first defense which i think is very important is the battery life
Acer rates Intel model at nine point five hours of battery life while the AMD
model is rated at seven point five hours of battery life but in real life you can
expect about 6.5 hours of bad life on the intel model and about you
know four and a half hours of battery life on AMD model so I think battery
life is so important and if you are getting two hours of extra battery life
on Intel model that is a significant advantage so in my opinion Intel wins
this round as well now let's take a look at the port situation there is a glaring
omission of USB type-c port on the AMD model Intel model on the other hand it
comes with USB type-c gen one port and this is the five gig per second data
transfer rate port so that's another win for Intel in my opinion both these
laptops they have the same exact 512 gig or fast PCIe nvme SSD and both of them
have 8 gig of ddr4 system RAM the build quality of the laptops the quality of
the 15.6 inch IPS panel the keyboard the trackpad they are exactly identical
since I have already covered these aspects of the laptop in my previous
review video I'm not going to repeat myself and bore you guys so instead what
I have done is I have created a playlist and my playlist comprises of all my
aspire 5 related videos that I has made in the past few months and it's linked
below in the description so feel free to check it out after you are you know done
watching this video first watch this video AMD model has two DIMM slots and
both these slots are a user upgradeable so that's a great thing but
unfortunately the Intel model it only has one user upgradeable time slot so
you can easily access these DIMM slots in both the laptops you all you have to
do is open the back of the laptop and if you need any help please watch my video
which is linked below and in this video I show how you can open the spare 5
laptop and how you can upgrade both the RAM and SSD by the way you can add up to
16 gig of ram in each dim slot so this means that AMD model can be maxed out to
32 gig ram but the intel version it comes with 4 gig ram that is already
soldered to the motherboard and the remaining 4 gig ram that is sitting on
the tim slot so you can replace this 4 gig ram which is on the dim slot with
the 16 gig stick and so that will bring up the total ram on your Intel laptop
220 gig so I will drop a link to compatible memory modules which are
going to work with both these laptops and you can find them in the description
below since AMD system can go up to 32 gig I
think it's a definite win for AMD so if you plan to run applications which
consume lot of system Ram like you know various software development
or if you are planning to run virtualization software or you know
things like Adobe Photoshop or any application which you deem will need lot
of RAM then I think AMD will be the better option because you can easily
upgrade and you know max out the system Ram to 32 gig okay now let's move to the
SSD storage so both Intel and AMD models like I said they come with 512 gig of
SSD this is PCIe nvme SSD so this is really fast
now if you are interested in adding more storage it's actually very easy because
both these laptops they come with SATA 3 and MDOT 2 slot for upgrading the SSD
the MDOT 2 slot it's already occupied by the 512 gigas ST that is present in the
laptop but the SATA 3 slot is completely empty
so I will drop a link to compatible SATA 3 and nvme SSDs that you can buy from
Amazon if you plan to upgrade the storage in your laptop and again I have
made a video showing step-by-step instructions on how you can add SSD to
your aspire 5 laptop so you can check out that video below I have linked it in
the video description so guys here is the bottom line in 10 version of aspire
5 laptop the one with the core i5 10 generation processor I think it comes
out on top in every scenario so whether you are into gaming or whether you are
looking for a laptop you know for content creation or any other
productivity tasks Intel is the better choice now there is only one scenario
where the AMD model makes sense and that's the one where you want to max out
the system ram to 32 gig for that AMD makes sense because AMD model has to
DIMM slots and so you can put 16 gig of memory stick in each dim slot and you
can have a dual channel 32 gig you know system ram configuration and so that's
going to be really great for running applications which require a lot of RAM
so like I said before Intel model you can only go up to 20 gig of ram because
it has only one Dame slot and also you will not be running dual channel
configuration you will actually be running single channel configuration so
that's slower memory performance so I think if you plan to run lot of memory
intensive application and if you cannot live without 32 gig system Ram then
absolutely go with the AMD model but for the rest of the folks combination of the
tenth generation Core i5 processor along with the NVIDIA MX 250 GPU I think that
is a far better choice then you know what AMD is offering and remember both
these models are exactly the same price $650
so you won't be saving any money by buying the AMD model now if you want to
save money and if you want to go get a more budget configuration then you
should pick the AMD Rison 3 model this is incidentally the best-selling laptop
on Amazon and it usually goes for about three hundred dollars so I have already
made bunch of videos targeting this laptop and I personally love this laptop
I will drop a link to this laptop in the video description below if you want to
check it out so guys I hope you found this video useful if you have any
questions please leave them in the comment section below and I will try to
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