Actual speed of the a8-3500m Quad Processor in DV6-6140US Notebook
was trying to figure out what the real speed of my laptop's cpu is. AMD's website AMD Quad-Core A8-Series APU for Notebooks says quad-core 1.5ghz. i ran novabench on it, and it confirmed 1.5ghz running on four cores. the thing is, on staples' website HP Pavilion dv6-6140us (where i purchased my machine) it says... AMD Quad-Core A8-3500M Accelerated Processor (2.4GHz)
soooo, what's the deal?
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"As a mobile chip, AMD has also ramped up the power-saving features. Which brings us neatly to the specifics of the AMD A8-3500M model tested here. Like most of the new A Series range, it's a quad-core processor. Seven A Series chips are available at launch, five quads and two entry-level dual-core models.
Where the power savings come in involves the 3500M's clocks. Nominally, it's a 1.5GHz processor, which isn't all that impressive. But thanks to a new version of AMD's Turbo Core feature, up to two cores can run at 2.4GHz."
http://www.techradar.com/reviews/pc-mac/pc-components/processors/amd-a8-3500m-965258/review?artc_pg=...
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